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New Dress!sf

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Today I made this dress! It’s from a Burda pattern (I forget which, but a new one). There’s a zip at the back and the bodice is lined, the skirt has 4 panels. I gotta say, the Burda instructions were so hard to follow. I didn’t realise that I needed lining until I was nearly done – it just never said the word “lining”. Burda instructions are not for beginners! But the dress itself was fairly easy, although because of my unique size I had to alter quite a bit – I took the straps up about 3cm, which makes the bodice really tight… ah well. I’ll fix it later.

Pictures!
On the road again… without a petticoat.
With a petticoat

In action. I’m happy with it!
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MORE SKIRTS OKAY GOSH

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This is my last skirt for a while, maybe. There’s another one in my cupboard that I haven’t shown you guise yet, and the one I made my mum, but surely you’re sick of skirts by now. So one more.

Here you can see the skirt reaching critical mass. It burst into flames seconds after the camera went.
This fabric is mostly transparent. To overcome this embarrassing problem, I sewed an underskirt into it. Hooray for modesty!
This fabric has a pretty edge. So when I sewed it all up and it was about 4 inches too long, I had to be creative about how to shorten it. I sewed in 2 pintucks around the skirt (a bit uneven in some places) which looks kind of cute.
What kind of skirt should I make next?
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MORE SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTS!

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Another one!!!

Here’s a box-pleated skirt I made about a month or two ago. It’s a bit *business-like* but also has a bit of body. The waistband is from a commercial pattern and the skirt is from my imaginings. Box pleats! Imagine that.

Outfit Rundown:
Skirt: Handmade
Jacket: SES
Blouse: ValleyGirl
Shoes: Cheap shoe shop that has now disappeared.

Here you can see a hanger!

Look! The lining has spots!
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Skirt post!

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Here’s a skirt I made quite a while ago (RL friends will know it well) but I never posted it because I totally nicked the design off a girl from sew_loli and I worried that she’d get upset. Now I realise that she’d be flattered. It’s a normal rectangle skirt with the stretch lace sewn on top so that it fits snugly around my waist.


I’ll do a daily_lolita here.
Outfit rundown:
Skirt: Handmade
Shoes: Vintage
Cardigan: OHNOIFORGET
Here it is in its natural habitat. Fabrics: Blue and white polka dot cotton, stretch lace, normal lace, ribbon, zip.
Here you can actually see the dots and the pretty lace. Pretty!
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LMTD Photoshoot! Shoop!

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LMTD had a photoshoot with my super-best-friend-photographer Rohan.  He is frigging awesome.
Left to right: Bunnjamioh, with his Lab-Waistcoat, Hanna with her Lab-dress and 3-tiered underskirt, and Charles with his lab-tailcoat, handmade cummerbund (!) and cravat (!!).


I’m pretty pleased with the waistcoat.  I got my dad’s one and traced the outline onto the labcoat.  It just looks so neat!  Charles’ tailcoat was based on this one from Black Peace Now, but it is obviously white.

Here you can sort of see the shirring on the back of the dress.  Those are also my shoes!  I didn’t make those.  But they are still FANTASTIC.
I plan to post some more pictures of stuff in detail, like the cummerbund.  Excitement!
If you go to Charles’ blog, you can find out more stuff about the LMTD project *apart* from the costumes!