#sew lolita

[nuzzle]

creating a lolita dress with "baby, the stars shine bright" designer—kumiko uehara

[cheapieclassic]

🍃Eucalyptus print dress from an H&M tablecloth - I made this AGES ago and forgot to post!

🍃Self drafted bodice with inverted box pleat skirt. The tablecloth and buttons are both thrifted.

🍃Styled with thrifted silk shirt and agate jewellery 🌿

[tretinoin-tube]

Lolita Accessory tutorial pages from Japanese mook “Gothic & Lolita Patterns”, 2004

Included are: head dresses, hair clips/ties, camisole pattern, drawers pattern, sock stoppers, multiple bag patterns, detachable collars, and jewelry.

Consider this as my Valentine’s gift to you guys!! Thank you for being very kind about my post ^-^

*Also* If you would like the patterns to some of the tutorials (ie: the mini top hats, pattern 62) let me know so I can make a post later!

[thedreamofmainstream]

Shirring Blouse

Baby the Stars Shine Bright

[trailerheaven]

handmade moitié inspired dress (top part, skirt part)

[crrows]

From the defunct brand Cornet

[himer0pa]

all handmade by me <3

[silverdawnarrow]

The weather has been too foul to take nice photos of us twinning, but Maddie has her own Elizabeth OP now!

[elisabeth-carrion]

Finally i got to Misako's book and as my first project i chose the strawberry pouch. Turned out quite nice!

[best-of-theworst]

My custom Draculaura doll

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I forgot to post her here! I finished her 3 months ago, and making her took 2 months!

The dress is not perfect by any means! But this project took me out of a pretty bad depressive episode, so for me, it's absolutely perfect!

Here's more about the process and elements of her look! ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥

Her dress is made out of 4 major parts:

The dress itself!

Lolita style white dress with long black sleeves in more of a witchy/goth style. A lot of ruffles and pearl chains!

The belt/skirt thing!

It's a separate part to allow easier dress up! It hooks up in the front, pleated skirt look and two chains on etch side! One black one white, all made out of glass beads!

The clip-on cape!

The cape isn't visible very well on these photos but there's only a drawing of a spider web in on the back, so you're not missing much lmfao! It has two chains hanging from the shoulders, made out of black glass, pink clear and silver beads! (I've used a lot of beads on this project didn't I...) And it uses tailor's snaps, hidden behind the silver heart, to clip on and off!

Petticoat!

A simple layered petticoat used to give she bottom of the dress some needed shape! It made out of, and stay with me on this, the material of dried out wet wipes... OKAY LISTEN. It's the perfect thickness for making petticoats! And by layering them you can create a perfect "sculpting material"! It's so easy to shape and control to achieve the perfect petticoat look!

Shoes!

Now, I know shoes aren't a part of the dress, but they also aren't accessories... so I'll put them here! I can't really explain the process of making them too well... I followed the shoes making steps I saw on the enchanterium YouTube channel! They are truly wizards in making shoes and dolls in general! So definitely check them out! (And they're my fellow polish girlis so dabble check them out!!!)

Accessories:

The bad!

The legendary bag... why legendary? Everyone who saw this doll irl immediately said "oh my god!! I need this bag in human size!!!" And honestly, I agree, it's cool as all hell! It's a simple messenger bag, the flap is layered, black material on the bottom and a weird material I found that kinda looks like a spider web! (I would really love to tell you where I got it from but I have no idea... I collect random trash that could be used in DIY and most likely, that's how I got it! Sorry... but I'm sure you can just Google "material that looks like spider web" and you'll probably find something similar!) It also has 4 belt like things hanging from the bottom of the flap! The two longer ones also have holes on the bottom with two silver rings! No real function, just there to look cool!

Garter!

It looks complicated but it was very easy to make! It's made out of a small piece of ribbon, it has, you guessed it, a chain made out of glass beads!!! And has a small a rose made of a mesh fabric!

The jewelry!

A silver ring, two silver bracelets, and safety pin earrings! A nod to her iconic earrings from gen1!

Wallet!

A piece of cardboard I wrapped up in black fabric and sticked a mesh rose on top! Sadly I got a bit lazy and it's not functional...

Blooding!

I know Draculaura is a vegetarian! Well every other Draculaura is. So she has a blood pudding for lunch! I used some random small cup, and the blooding itself is made out of... glass... beads... AND glue!

The process!

It was really easy! I don't really follow any patterns and I just measured everything by eye... yea, not very professional. So I can't give you a pattern now, but if anyone wants it, let me now! Even if it's only one person! I will get to work and draw the pattern to the best of my ability! ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥

Thanks so much for reading! ♡

[pink-sloth18]

so...I had to size up a skirt and it was...a challenge

My friend had given me a skirt for basically free (in exchange for driving her home). But of course it was waaaaay to small for me. Thankfully I sew (quite a bit) so I took it home to alternate it size.

And after like 2 days of sewing, unstitching and trying on the skirt, I finally got it to fit me. And lemme tell you, I ADORE the print on this skirt. It's so detailed and intricate. It's like a painting.🤭 Anyways, I feel super accomplished with this since I have never had to upsize any of the garments I own

[nuzzle]

The production studio at "Baby, the Stars Shine Bright" featured in an episode of Tokyo Fashion Express. Their designs typically require up to 50 sewing patterns, which is about 5 times as many as the average dress. Detailed notes on measurements and specifications are written for the sewing factory.

The sewing factory is in Ibaraki prefecture. For more than 20 years they've been sewing clothes exclusively for BTSSB. 17 people work there, most of them being veterans age 60 or over. Due to the complexity they work in teams for ironing, sewing lace and ribbons, as well as completing gathers and frills.

The manager of the factory, Sumiko Watahiki, says in an interview: "There's tons of gather, lace, and layering, which requires a lot of sewing. At first, I doubted I could do it! It was that hard. (But) I'm always impressed with the adorable designs when I see the finished products or while I work."

[cheapieclassic]

🍀Ivy Dress🍀

Hello friends! Heres a better look at my recent tablecloth-flip :)

Made from my self-draft sundress pattern, it was a challenge to make the most of the small Irish tablecloth I fell in love with 💖

Styled with thrifted cardi & bag, plus a necklace I've had since 2007 :")

Heres to all you hobbits, lotr weirdos and fans of green magical girls 💚🍀🐛🍃🐸🌱🌿

[20dollarlolita]

If yyour cheap computerized Brother sewing machine stops advancing the fabric, or only going backwards, here's what to do.

First of all, do not put oil in there. In the last year, I've seen 5 machines where this would have worked, except that someone decided to drown the circuit board in oil. Basically zero parts of an entry level computerized brother can be fixed with oil. Put the oil away.

See how there's nothing stopping the oil you put on your feed teeth from going to your main circuit board? Don't do it.

See that combo of that little black gear and the white rack? That controls your feed. Sometimes, your machine gets stuck in reverse because the rack overshoot the gear, and then there's no connection to get it back down.

You can see this rack by taking off your stitch plate, and usually access it by poking at it with tweezers. Push it down a little bit, if it's going in reverse. Push it up a little bit if it's stuck at almost 0. Make sure you have theachinevturned off and unplugged before you dick around with this stepper motor, or the machine can get confused, try to fight you, and break itself more than it already is.

Stick it back together, and see if it's feeding now. If it is feeding semi-properly, try adjusting your stitch length.

Best case, this actually fixes your problem, and now your machine works again. If it doesn't, and the machine only sews at one length, wiggle the rack up and down until you get a good general-purpose stitch length, and you can just sew exclusively at that length until you've saved up enough to get a new machine. It ain't fixed, but it's better than broken.

[thedreamofmainstream]

Open Front Standing Collar Blouse, 2002

Organdy Skirt with Apron, 2002

~Metamorphose temps de fille~

(source: rakuma)

[draculascakes]

Last week I finished sewing this jsk and blouse combo.

This weekend, I was able to put together a coord 💙