I make historical, "historically adequate", cosplay, mashup, anime, and everything in between as my fancy strikes. My videos are largely vlogs of my sewing adventures, where I share what I am creating and any tips that I can about how to be a better seamstress and dressmaker. Occasionally I will take you with me on my adventures to cons and vacations. I also do reviews of books and patterns that relate to this wonderful world.
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Something I would like to try when I do a dress form is to make pin on boobs. Because depending on the project you need your boobs to move in a way foam does not. So I think padded boobs that don’t need to be in a bra for most things but bean bag boobs for corsets and lingerie so they squish in the way flesh does.
I wonder what the pale green maple leaves on tannish fabric would look like if you dyed with blue over it and maple leaves in random patterns over the first one...Or would that just look like a big mess?
Really interesting experiences. You can definitely use cyanotype wet, and try adding washing up liquid bubbles for more interesting effects. The time of day you do your sun printing makes a difference too. Closer to midday will be more intense with paler colours later in the day
Thinking about light fasting of colour dye. I guess one would have to read the instructions .as a creative person myself .sometimes I just want to do without reading. Just like jumping into the deep end of a swimming pool . without knowing how to swim. 😁
I actually really love the different values that you got with the translucent stars, @morgandonner! And the wrinkles that look like dust trails on yours are so fun, Noelle. I do like how the coral one turned out, but I think it would definitely have been stunning in the more burnt orange that you were going for. I think my personal favorites (just aesthetically) are the japanese maple leaves and the one with all the little bits of Morgan's garden. I've always loved solar printing and cyanotype, so it's really exciting to see it starting to have a resurgence. I'm going to have to get the materials out again soon and do it while we still have good weather!
I'm glad y'all had fun.. That does look like it can be very fun and creative. Living in the middle of the Valley of the Sun, I could possibly do that in my living room (I have a west facing window without an awning), though I think I'd have to prepare it in my bathroom or closet because well....valley of the sun.... Today was the last day of the summer reading challenge.. Collectively, those participating in my county read over 100 million minutes! (County-wide goal of 90 million). I contributed almost 28k :) I haven't started my reward book yet as life has been crazy, but the upside of the craziness is that in about 4 more weeks or so, I can start picking back up my knitting and crocheting again. I'm so looking forward to it! I had my left hand surgery two weeks ago and the stitches taken out about 2 days ago. (while I'm completely fine with needles, stitches leave me a bit woozy when they come out and I also had my ulnar nerve decompressed on my left arm). Anyways! I'm glad the two of you were able to get up to shenanigans and that Mr Morgan Donnaer had fun, too.
Yeah, a bathroom prep station might be the way... or maybe a garage? And yay book challenge! I'm glad that your surgery seems to have gone well and that you can get back to it soonish!!
Love the projects and testing videos! The examples and key learnings were great. I'm currently doing some complex bag making and re-reading Wheel of Time.
I would imagine it would but really the only parts that got sun would dye, so it would be kind of a crazy pattern. Maybe that’s a case for doing multiple colors with washes in between! If you do it, lmk what happens!!
I am going to show this to a friend this weekend. this is definitely for sure going to be a future project I already have an Idea for mine. I liked the effect the one that had a few wrinkles had so I'm going to try and maybe purposely wrinkle my bandana fabric then add skull shapes with a black color. so when it dries it hopefully has those little wrinkle lines and skulls.
I think it would be interesting to try layering the dyes but you'd have to carefully replace the resist objects for each layer of dye. But I suppose the rinse process after each dye would get tedious. I'm watching Brooklyn 99 which is funny and clever and surprisingly heartwarming at times. I'm also watching a Kdrama called Sweet Home which has a lot of flaws but is worth a watch if you like zombie apocalypse type shows and subtitles.
Thank you for the encouragement to work with squidgy fabric! I cut out a pair of pants from some linen, and it's squidgier than I expected. When I realized that my waistband got messed up in the cutting I walked away for a solid month. This got me back to the next step. I have enough fabric to re-cut the relevant waistband piece, don't worry :)
@@Costuming_Drama I'll starch it before I cut it out this time! the big pieces are fine because grain is easy to see on this linen, but small curved pieces? harder to get right.
@@Costuming_Drama ya working nights means I get to try to sleep during the hottest part of the day in the south with the humidity so thick you can cut it. I wish for the weather I had in so cal.
Looks like fun and a good time, but I'm not supposed to be adding any more hobbies till I finish working on a few ufo's, so no telling hubby about the rug stuff, 😂, hope you had a lovely time away with Abby.❤
Love the “Coraline” bandana. Never tried this, but it looks fine. My friend wrote on Exploding Kittens. Thanks for the support. Finished season 2 of Interview with the Vampire. Really good. They released a trailer for season 3 yesterday. To the end.
this looked like so much fun! it reminded me of how much I miss developing prints in a darkroom -- I think I just might have to set aside a sunny weekend to play around with this.
Oo I'm so excited to try this, I have a bottle of black to play with! I just finished the Rook & Rose series by M.A. Carrick and I loved it! It's got different magic systems and political drama. 10/10 would recommend listening or reading
After many years of eyeing it, I finally got a custom corset pattern from The Clockwork Fairy and they sent it to me this week!! I'm super excited to work on that. I have to make a mockup but of course I'm already planning final colors...either pastel green or color blocked rainbow. Choices, choices! Enjoy your new robe! It looks fun to wear
Thinking of possible ways of weighing stuff down for this, I bet a poster frame (which can be very inexpensive) would be great! A music stand would also be a great asset for those of us who live in apartments and have small balconies.
Fun experiment! You got some interesting prints and they're totally unique. Also i like your taco breakfast shirt Noelle ❤ i was eating pizza for breakfast watching this 😂
I might start teaching textile crafts next school term and if I can get the dyes over here I'll definitely do this with my class! This looks like so much fun
Watching this, breastfeeding my baby daughter and already planning this as a birthday activity several years down the line 🤩 thanks for showing your experiments and inspirations. I also liked Mr. Morgan Donner‘s tool based ones. Reminds me of my mother’s Easter egg dyes, where she painted wax ornaments on eggshells with a needle and dyed them, sometimes in several dye colours, with some wax off for the second dye, resulting in some ornaments white, some in the first colour and some in the second colour. I wonder if this would work like that, too? Though, probably with a rinse/wash in between?
This just made me smile the whole time 😊 I’m glad I waited until after my niece went home to watch… this is right up her alley but I’d like to try it w/o a kid “helping” first! 😅
