#finished garment

[badassindistress]

So there's this Thai mafia drama...

[marzipanandminutiae]

me: I've made many garments for myself! cutting and fitting and stitching singlehandedly!

a potential employer: can you finish these seams by machine?

me: I have never sewed anything ever in mine entire Life

[anonymocha]

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Alternative versions:

Based on the movie poster of Solntse Svetit Vsem

[mildmayfoxe]

i meant to post this yesterday but when i saw my sister yesterday she was wearing the shirt i made her in 2019 for her college graduation present !!!! here’s a pic from when i finished it

its this cute little windowpane check linen tunic with a contrast light green patch pocket & i matched the bias tape…. i always forget i can sew! and the top stitching on the pocket was so neat when i looked at it yesterday too! i’m so touched that she still has it & it’s holding up & looking good. i should make more clothes

[strawberrum]

perhaps my fellow garment knitting oomfs can relate — I finallllly tried on the tank I've been knitting and it's SUCH a trial!! ; o;

I use circular needles and don't have any connectors, so I have to transfer alllll the stitches to a piece of scrap yarn, try it on, and then move them allllll back to the needles. It's such a pain lmao.

The good news is that fits really well! And there's room for it to shrink or grow a bit and still be comfy. c:

[backstitchbroidery]

Functional mockup of a skirt with a flat-front/stretch-back waistband. I hadn't combined gathering with pleats before, but I like how that softened the shape.

[starsilversword-art]

Took forever but I finished it. Tada! Sonetto's Parade Anthem garment.

Isn't she pretty? Also, thanks @arcanistsanctum for having the name sprite and basically being my library for references.

[charliecraftsthings]

Pigeon Pullover, completed!

I am very pleased with how this turned out! It's very comfortable--I had worried about the mock neck getting in the way (which has been my experience with other garments), but this wasn't a problem! It's also just warm enough to keep off a chill, but cool enough I'm not overheating, even with a t-shirt underneath.

The self-striping sock yarn used to make the chequered wing pattern is toothier than the solid-coloured yarns. It's noticeable, but I don't think it's an issue.

Things I'd change next time:

figure out how to make a tighter mock neck

start the chequering sooner (higher)

round the purple yoke more; possibly start it sooner (end it higher)

Can't wait for Pigeon Pullover version 2!

[alysannee]

has anyone ever cut viscose fabric without losing 10 years of their life while trying to align the pattern and this slippery bitch

[cecilyacat]

Ah yes, we are finally back at the stage of "too many creative ideas too little time"

Which honestly I prefer to "no creative mojo at all" which was the case until a couple of weeks ago 😒

[yakozy]

merry infinite wealth to all who celebrate 🎏

[badassindistress]

Here I am, a total stranger wearing a tiny half mask asking you for prompt 8- To welcome your arch enemy into your evil lair for the costume game

Well total stranger, it's been several months, so if we're lucky you won't remember sending this and we'll have a double mystery.

@flishlish asked this one as well!

8. What would you wear to welcome your arch enemy into your evil lair?

"How kind of you to grace us with your presence-- Oh dear, that looks quite uncomfortable. And I did ask my henchmen to bring you here politely..."

Closet Costume Challenge~

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

The Vacation Indecision Project continues!

Got a late start today, because one of our dogs decided the way I wasn't going to work on a Monday was suspicious and reason to act anxious, and absolutely nothing I did would convince him I wouldn't be abandoning him forever. It's been literal months since he had an anxiety day that bad. To make matters worse, I eventually did have to leave the house for mockup fabric groceries and medication.

But I finally did get behind the craft table, metamizole tablets gratefully replenished, and started sewing together things I pinned yesterday.

For, y'know. 45 minutes. Then there were another 35 minutes spent at the overlocker, finishing all the edges of this fabric that is absolutely stable until it decides to dissolve when you look at it wrong. I've made a paneled circle skirt in this stuff before. Fool me once, and all that. Also, I've never sewn this before, there's some techniques I don't do a lot, so I'm just finishing all the edges while everything is flat and relatively simple shapes, so I don't have to do geometry while panicking later. It's worth the extra thread it uses.

But, as we all know, most of the time in a sewing project is not spent sewing if you're doing it by machine. Most of my sewing skills come down to skimming the instructions for how much stuff can be done before I have to start ironing. Trendy YouTubers call this "batch working" instead of "putting of the inevitable".

And after all that, the pile to be pinned is... Smaller that yesterday. Some bits are as done as they'll be before being joined, others are waiting on bits and bobs to be fenagled before they can be used at all.

The only thing that needs much more work is the waist tie and the ruffle. I decided to work on the one that isn't 4 m long first. If you iron something well enough, you can sometimes get away with not pinning it. And many thanks to Quiltbr for teaching me that you want to use diagonal seams when piecing long, skinny bits that are going to be folded and run under a sewing machine.

Put in the pockets, leaving the iron on for the little bits of pressing needed for this. Then I noticed I could already put in the wrist plackets if I wanted to. Have I ever put in a placket? No, I just make potato dresses and shove in an elastic over the butt seam so they hang nicer. But how hard could it be?

Half an hour later, covered in an admirable amount of nervous sweat, I had managed to put these two miniscule little [undeserved expletive deleted] without needing to rip anything out, or introducing puckers, or having them be hugely uneven. I only nearly burned my fingers. Three times.

To come down from that adventure, I figured I could finish the raw edges of that frill. All 4+ meters of it. Twice, because there's two sides. And join it in the middle. And, seeing that the night light is on again, use my last two frazzled brain cells to mark the center points of it. And the quarter points. Actually, make that 8ths.

... I'm gonna have to do so much gathering tomorrow, and I'm already trying to negotiate it to pleats instead.

Oh well. We went from 33 pattern pieces at 7 pm to 17 right now, which feels admirable enough.

[elenadoeslife]

I finished the back and right shoulder of the crochet sweater vest, but I didn't bring enough yarn 😭

[clios-purls]

but who am I, really, to resist the impulse to handsew historical garments

[tiralja]

Good thing about mabinogi is that it has a truly unique feature where you can increase your bond with the npcs by having multiple interactions with them and by doing tasks for them. This is a really cool feature that gives you additional story, background on the characters and sometimes even secret shops on higher likeability points!

Bad thing about mabinogi is that that likeability can also go down if you keep messing up the tasks they give you and needless to say I will not be growing my tailoring skill in this reincarnation because boy oh boy am I annoying the poor man!