I'm almost done the split skirt, which, as it turns out, are a giant pair of pants! With pleats to cleverly disguise it as a skirt! Wilma decided it was far enough for me to start putting the pieces together, and that is what I did! ( pictures under the cut )

Well, since I'm on a roll of taking pictures.

( Sewing! )

The project goes apace. I've done a bit of ironing down the pleats, and I had some issues with the buttonhole function of my machine! OK, I've had many issues with the buttonhole function. It's like I get it right only every five tries ( Read more... )

One of the older women I met a steampunk meet and greey last weekend, at the new fancy-ass Baltimore House, offered me sewing lessons, for absolutely free. And apparently I'm the first person in a long time who's taken her up on it.

I already had a pattern for this split skirt, and some basic idea of how my new sewing machine works. The problem is ( Read more... )

- Edited a steampunk Shakespeare story today! I think it's going to need a bit more work, but oh well.

- Read a really neat story, "The Widow And the Princess of the Dwende" at Rocket Kapre tonight. Liked it a great deal.

- Interviewing moniquill and yiduigie for my steampunk POC series at Silver Goggles! Feeling pretty good about it ( Read more... )

After over a year of not hearing from him, all it took was one friendly overture to him and Nick Ottens (remember him? Of Victoriental fame) had to plug his cluelessness right into my blog. And I got so angry, compounded by other shit that happened at SteamCon.

And via a long thought process, I found out how to make origami lotus and found some ( Read more... )

I think I posted this way back, but I can't remember, so I'm putting it here: the Toronto Guqin Society's Tutorials to Hanfus for future reference.

I actually want to make a samfu top but hanfus cannot possibly go wrong.

So, remember all that dithering I was doing about the mandarin necklace for my Nova Albion costume?

Well, it's done!

( Pics! )

I make these every year around this time of year to sell alongside Vagina Monologue tickets, if you guys recall, but I've never actually done or seen a how-to. So here's one!

( Picspam! )

So, in the summer of '08 I was working on a costume of Agatha's Signal dress and it went swimmingly. Kinda. As in, I got together the major pieces. I used pieces of spandex and chiffon, and bought chain with Tristan helping ( Read more... )