Glamorous and geeky

  I have been wanting to make my own strawberry dress since I first laid eyes on one while browsing through instagram. It was a beautiful Matoshi dress. And while I have expensive Selkie dresses, It wasn't a a dress I wanted to spend that much on. I liked it but it didn't curl the toes as much as the selkies do.  Then I saw the sequin strawberries on some mesh at Joann's fabrics and had to have it. SO, I went home and ordered it. Along with some bright red silk satin.. I don't have a serger, which is why working with satins and chiffon or organza is a pain in my royal ass. I hate it. The shit frays, and even with a backwards stitch, it isn't as clean as a serger would be. And let me remind you that I am struggling with my current Singer machine. I will never buy a damn Singer ever again. Brother, will be my next machine and serger. NEVER BUY THE SINGER HEAVY DUTY 4011, it is a piece of shit. it eats thread, you spend ore time fixing the machine than sewing. You spen...

 I have had this fabric I made on Spoonflower.com for a while now. And I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. I also have some other fabric from there I want to use up. But this dress was one I was wanting to get done. A corseted dress is what I did, and forgot the zipper. Which was a minor inconvenience for me. Getting it off was a nightmare, I just need to add a small hidden zipper and a few more boning channels on the dress. Sewing stuff is a hobby of mine that I really do enjoy.  The black satin for this silly project of mine was from Joann’s fabric. The velvet ribbon from Amazon. I got the pattern for the top of dress is from a simplicity pattern that was designed by American Duchess, The skirt is my own draping. I do love draping fabric.  It was sewn a lot by hand because of the boning an my sewing machine was not wanting to work right, I broke several sewing machine needles. I finished the dress but there is some corrections needed. And knowing me, I will pr...

 I had this dress from a local boutique here in Florida. And while I loved it at first purchase, later on it just hung in my closet. See, I never felt the dress looked good on my body. My breasts don’t look right in it and it was not wanting to fit them very well either. It was a size large too. And so I would have to wear a swimsuit top that was a similar lace with it in order for me to wear the dress.And even then it didn’t look right.  So the dress sat there, unworn.  And then after watching some period costumers talk about how people in the past would take their garments and repair them and repurpose them. Many people didn’t have multiple dresses like we do today. Clothes were not mass produced like today.In fact clothing was not mass produced until the 20th century for women.Women’s clothing was ornate and so many still went to dressmakers if middle class or like with lower class ladies altered the dresses at home. That got me thinking, instead of getting rid of the ...