The marshmallow dress
This dress is the very first dress where I drafted my own pattern. I was inspired by dressup games and their flair for fantasy and unreal fashion. I thought to myself ”Wow! What if you wear a marshmallow?” and so it was created, using poly fabrics such as a very soft bi-stretch and lightwheight material. The bell shape is achieved by two layers of petticoats, the first is made from crinoline and the second a bell shaped petticoat without crinoline. I made it so you could easily slip into the dress, and it forms after your own shape.
The marshmellow tubes was difficult to make, long tubes of stretchy fabric filled with a very soft and slippery stuffing made it hard to shape evenly. And while twisted they quickly spun out of their spiral shape. I had to use a sort of spiral hand stitching to make them stick together. No fabric glue here! Just like a marshmallow, it is VERY bouncy when you walk around in it. My sister mentioned how tasty it looked, so I think I made it pretty realistic!
I’m very happy I can still sew while still being a dyscalculate being. I didn’t think I could sew, with my fear of math. But there it is! I thank Jesus for the help!
The Ocean lotus top
After several projects, fabrics scraps starts to pile up. When I got the dress form I decided to use those scraps and make something completely new! I have a few other similliar projects, but this is the one that turned out the best!
All too often people throw away unwanted things, like a shirt with holes in it, or a broken clock. Anything can be reused and recycled. Even the fabric pieces that are too small to sew together can be used as stuffing.
Black swan
The very first dress I made! Many years after I made my very first garment, so you could say this is the first time I was serious about sewing. Around 2018-2019. The overskirt is made from a very thick fur, I had plants to make a fur-coat or shrug with black feathers, to make it look more like a version of Odile from the ballet ”Swan Lake.”
Blue velvet fantasy dress
It was the first project where I handstitched almost every seam, and the first dress to give my hands pain because of it (although I already had pain in them before) It was also the first time I’ve used brocade fabric as border panels. Turns out that brocade with its metallic threads have a tendency to poke out from where you’ve cut and folded it! I have pinned it to the dress form because…uh… I somehow made the skirt piece much wider than my frame… -__-
The pattern has no zipper, the front panel (the white part) is detachable from one side, but I had trouble with the hooks so it turned out lopsided. I will fix it in the future (maybe). Despite the challenges i faced I am happy with my result! It was a labor of love, and very humbling, I respect the sewists of the past more now!