to move up and down
Might as well continue the backwards catching up with some shots of the Little Red Riding Hood costume I made for my 2 year old goddaughter, Sierra.
The struggle with this costume was creating it without any fittings, as she lives across the country from me & I get to see her just once a year. I just HAD to make everything with various wovens I spent a few months collecting, which made the fitting margin a bit smaller than if I had chosen knits… but I think it turned out pretty well.
the dress actually has a lot of details, the photos of which i lost when my phone decided to be a loser and update wrong (and it’s also my fault for being lazy and not using my camera). The skirt has three layers of fabric with two layers of gathered tulle in between (for comfort, because that shit’s so itchy come on), and the topmost layer is more like a pinafore, tying up in the back.
I also included a wolf paw in her basket.. which was a bit hard to make toddler friendly…but bread&cheese is just so boring.
016: hand-sewing leather is a bitch
there’s just a lot of things i didn’t preemptively anticipate and probably should have. for starters, that there’s a PROPER way to pierce leather. check out this nice little chart i belatedly discovered after stabbing holes into half of the red boot:
i’d like you to guess which one MY stitching looks like
because i assure you
it’s not the one it should be.
i dont want to talk about the forgetting each leather hide has a different amount of give and that i should have anticipated the black wouldn’t be as forgiving as the red and therefore requires a lot of greasework to put on. between this and the joker costume i’m really selling myself as a skilled costumer, aren’t i? haha! and i even went to school for this. beautiful. children’s clothing is just so different…
so the awl puncturing. IT SEEMS LOGICAL NOW, but oh man, I just didn’t know! and my original instructions didn’t mention it! I’m going to have sloppy contrast stitching and unhappy feet. but at least, i guess, i’ll have ACTUAL soles and won’t have to be carried over broken bottle glass like last year.
TO BED WITH ME. tomorrow i’m flying home for the first time in over a month. goodness.
dear joker,
your jacket makes me weep. and for once, not in a good way.
love, aidan
