Update Solo Dress!!

Guess who got the shiny fabric??

I still have to shape it and sew it with the underskirt; But I love how it looks!! Still deciding if putting some of the shiny fabric over the bodice... 

Update solo dress!

So I disassembled the skirt's dress. I came up with some Ideas for re-using the pleats and adding a shiny fabric below them.
So here are the sketchs:

I am seriously inclined to do V2. I think it's a way of fusing the shiny fabric to the bodice.

Need to buy the fabric yet!

Finishing old proyects!

Well. Something epic happened today.

I went to try on the bodice of my solo dress... and. it fitted! My old pants don't fit yet but hey xD I can continue with my old lovely solo dress proyect I had to dump because I got pregnant and fat haha.

So I am pretty excited because doing ID related things just pumps me up and I end up very happy. On the other hand until July I still will be at home taking care of my baby; so besides doing an online writing course  I needed other proyects... yay! (we are also going to sew a new dress for our dancing group but that is another one!)

Oh and guess what I got the other day?? Isn't this adorable!??!

A cute irish gift for the baby.

My best friend/teacher/dancer is having a baby in a week!!! I wanted an irish themed gift so decided to sew this little things. I think they look adorable!

Fleece Ghillies Baby Boots TUTORIAL

 Remember these?

This is how I made them!!! I hope you make an Irish Dance Mommy Happy!!!

TUTORIAL! 

Well here is the pattern. Very simple.

For the sole (1) you could just trace the foot part of some leggings or even another pair of boots. If you trace it add some extra for seam allowances.

The next piece (2) has to fit inside the sole and be smaller from the sides. (Woa I don't know if I explained it well)

The long stripe will be the perimeter of the sole.(3) (I cut it larger, so no risks)

The short stripe will go round the ankle.(4)

And a thin strap (A)  that I didn't do pattern for it.

So this is how you do it:

This fleece had wrong side and right. Put the pattern (1) in bias position, then fold the fabric leaving wrong sides inside. 

Pin it and cut.

Those are the wrong sides facing each other. (Lame photo, sorry!)

Cut a 0,5 cm long strap.(A)

Cut each strap 4 cm, then fold. (A)

Cut this pattern piece (2) in white.

Also cut the stripes. (3)black  and (4) white

Sew the black pieces (A) On top of the right side of (2). (Good thing you have photos haha)

Sew the long stripe (3) along all the border of the sole. Wrong side should be facing up. (in the sole It won't matter unless you have a side you want to use as an actual sole)

This is how it looks like!

I trim and sew the edge.

So now you got this 2 pieces.

Remember the shoe is inside out. Sew the white part to the shoe borders.  

This is how it looks like when you turn it to the right side.

Now you got something that looks like a shoe and a white strap (4).

Match the edges of the strap with the edges of the shoe. And Zig zag sew them. If your (4) has wrong side and right, wrong side should be facing out and right side touching the outside of the shoe.

*Note: go for a big zig zag so it's strechy. I didn't do the bigger but it was big enough.

I start this way.

I have to turn out the shoe at some point because it gets hard to sew (4).

Finally zig zag the end.

You are almost there!!

Cut a black lace of desired length

This would be more or less the length, you can cut excess.

Sew each stripe to the side. (you didn't think I tied it, didn't you?)

:-) It's done!!! Looks lovely! plus warm for that baby's feet!

Baby Fleece ghillies

The other day I saw this cute little socks that resemble ghillies. So I came up with the idea of making little ghillies fleece boots.

And they ended up lovely!!! Check them out:

I took photos of the entire process, I'll be posting it soon as a Tutorial because now my house is too messy. A pattern is not necessary though I could upload it.

About my Solo dress

So, yesterday I tried my forgotten solo dress, which I haven't fnished sewing. Saying that I'm overweighted after having my baby of course it doesn't fit me. Plus the skirt doesn't look right, I think ill be remaking it.

However it came to my mind to buy a solo costume to have something I don't know... faster. I searched for dress makers in europe since my cousin will be in germany for two months in summer. But the prices were too much for me,  my actual dress costed $100 dolars from materials, even a little less. So paying $1000 for a dress is like, really impossible. Even paying $300 seems a lot to me. Since the bodice of my dress is O.K. I think I'll just take out that skirt and start over! (that after losing some weight haha).

Update on my solo dress !!!

The sleeves and bodice with the knotwork done :-)

I added some shine to the knot of the neck. (I wanna add some also to the sleeves and maybe... to the panels of the skirt and... OH MY GOD IRISH DANCING LEADS YOU TO AN ADDICTION TO SHINY THINGS :( -)

The bodice after sewing the BAD QUALITY HORRIBLE invisible zipper which broke after I pulled it up. (And sewing an invisible zipper wasn't fun at all). So now Im doubting about the zipper issue. I chose the invisible one because it would have a neater ending (and after looking the result... IT DOES) but I doubt about the quality of the invisible zippers you can buy in this area, so sigh, I don't know. I decided to forget about the zipper issue for a while.

The skirt is done... or not... It needs some shine, doesn't it?

My solo dress update 3

Since I wanted to do some embroidery work I found the two knots I needed for the sleeves would be a good opportunity. But after I finished it, i'm not sure about it yet. 

What do you think?

My solo dress update2

Well,I am very happy to announce my dress is doing fine. I was unsure about the knot work and if I should do embroidery or find a nice cord or lace. Well I found the ideal material, is a silver lovely cord. It is a little bit more thin that I was looking for, but discovered I love it!!!

My solo dress :-)

Well I have advanced in my project since last time I
wrote. I even took some pictures... :-)

This are the fabrics I choose :-). The greenish one is for the bodice, the blue one for the pleats, grey for the waist and the white one is really a silver very transparent fabric I will use for details.

The sleeve pattern on the fabric, ready to be marked :-)

 

For the inside I used the reverse side of my main fabric and sew it very tidy.

This is the sleeve already cut. The black thing is another fabric for inside extra support.  The grey triangle is the transparent silvery fabric (it's seriously horrible fabric to sew :-( )

This is the waist/belt. The pale fabric below is the one that will give support and where I'm going to sew the panels.

 This are the parts of the bodice. I already sew them all together, it was tough because when I tried the pattern I did it in another fabric; and I didn't took into account my fabric would wrinkle so much when buying it.  But loads of patience did it and there's barely no wrinkles in piece of the dress .


Well, that's all so far... :-)

I still got tons of work to do but its doing good so far !!!

Creating my solo dress!!

I think the toughest part is done... (well at least for the moment)

 

The sketch of my dress and the pattern are ready!!!! Now a big challenge comes, I need to choose two or three kinds of fabric (for the base, the marked details and maybe for the knots.) Also the pleats I was thinking of doing them in a color lighter than the base color.