when i find myself...

[heimdalalr]

taking a quick snapshot for comparison with my phone and I end up editing it like I would've if I went and got my sony alpha battery off the charger. *sigh* I tried to avoid a big production but for what? lol

Comments

[ashbet]

Is this more laser-cutting, or printing, or . . . ? Not sure what technology you're using for the leggings, but they're nifty!

<3!

[heimdalalr]

All laser-cutter work here. The leggings pattern pieces are cut with the laser and the designs are engraved or "etched" into the fabric. It pretty much "burns" the image right into the fabric. It only makes the fabric lighter, so there are obviously some limitations. But its a good way to add designs that are in proper scale to otherwise plain fabric

[ashbet]

This stuff is so exciting!! Thank you for sharing what you've been doing -- I love living in the future!! :D

The etched designs are lovely . . . I especially like the way the lines converge on your Zero at her hips, because it creates a really neat effect!! (Potentially even neater if you could get the short lines in the front middle section to line up to meet at the seams, but I know that has to be a pain in the ass.)

Ooohhhh . . . looking at these tops, I'm wondering -- I really like the Unoa-sized flowy top that you made for me, and I wonder what something with a top part like this and an A-line skirt with laser-cutting at the border would look like?

(Basically, if you took this top design and kept going instead of tying off at the waist -- does that make sense? Turn it into a dress and start the hem cutouts at mid-thigh on a just-above-the-knee-length dress?)

If you want an experimental victim for the design, you KNOW I'm game! :D

<3!

[heimdalalr]

We did attempt a more asymmetrical design for the bottom of the dress you have, the shortest part was about mid-knee and the longest was mid-calf. The dress we did after yours has a scalloped bottom as that piece was laser-cut, which didn't have to be hemmed unlike yours. The bottom was perhaps a little overly ambitious design wise.. the laser was to cut little holes and it was to be really tattered looking, and the way the laser works on those types of polyester materials it seals the edges, so the little holes and stuff were there but weren't cut, they were sealed right back in. This is probably because the fabric heated up and was still really hot in that area. Not that that made it unsellable or anything (it was actually kinda cool looking) but as I remember we didn't have silk in a corresponding color to go with it or something... (the time we spend there is half tinkering/fooling around a quarter actual work, and a quarter of people onlooking and asking questions lol

[denaliwind]

They look fantastic! :D

[heimdalalr]

I didn't post the picture of the chevron/wood tests in sd size purposely ;3 so you'll get the full on xmas feeling when your package arrives lol :D