Pop that collar!!

I have been able to get so much done today!

Firstly, as I was finishing the bodice, I realized I sewed a piece backwards. Quite annoying. This fabric that I am working with has a very faint pattern and if you aren't paying attention it is easy to mistake the back for the front.

The edge where the straight top part is, should have been the side that was attached to the piece on the right. SO by doing it incorrectly it gave me a square neckline in the back basically. Once, I realized this I had to take almost the entire thing apart. Super frustrating. But once corrected, I was really able to move along quite quickly.

The fit of the bodice was has been the worst part of this project so far, I'm not sure if I just suck, or measured incorrectly, but to correct it I just made a larger seam allowance and this really helped with the fit!

The back, the correct way!

Next was the collar. After doing the Alice in Wonderland project, this collar was a breeze. The patterned called for it to be sewn directly to the right side of the bodice, which would have left a raw edge (icky), so I made the collar the same way I did the Alice one. By puting it on the wrong side, folding, and ironing it over to create a clean edge.

(wrong side of collar and bodice)

The pretty finished product!!! The collar turned out so damn fierce!! I am so in love with it! 

Next will be the sleeves, which is my least favorite thing in the planet to do, but once they are done I will be a solid third of the way done this project!!

Keep watching for a new update!!

Thanks guys!

Evil Queen Update

This weekend I was able to finally get some work done on my Evil Queen cosplay!

Now, maybe it won't seem like work to you guys, but it really is!

On Friday, I was able to make a muslin of the bodice part of this cosplay. Before I start using the final fabric for any cosplay, I always look through all aspects of the pattern to see if there are any parts that seem super difficult. And this type of bodice was one I have never done before! So before using the 80$ fabric, I used the 4$ a yard muslin, that way if it turns out horribly I can just try again! With no hours of tears because I ruined the final fabric!

 

(Front goodness. Kind of hard to see, but there's a deep v-neck, that will have a very dramatic collar attached to it.)

(Back goodness, that isn't as fun. To problem solve some of the fit issues, I may add some side or back darts!)

I am really glad actually that I did the muslin first, because the fit came out really weirdly. At first, I thought maybe I had mis-measured and cut the wrong size out. But after remeasuring I saw I didn't. SO I'm just freaking out as to why this isn't working. Then I realized that I made my seam allowance way too small! (easy fix) so I went back and fixed it! Whew!! 

It is still a little to loose at the waste, which is odd because the patter is designed to be tight fighting, so I will have to fiddle around with it more to make it more fitting.

BUT SEE! This is why we do a muslin first!!

This week I am getting my wisdom teeth removed :( So I am not sure when my next update will be, I am shooting for next Sunday. But stay tuned and may the odds be ever in your favor!