I know, I know, I'm falling behind. Let me live.
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| So it doesn't fit as snugly as I would normally make it, but I dance in this dress and wear a thick tutu under it, so I'm fine with it being a little loose. |
This post will probably be more of a picture dump than anything, but I'll try to make sense of it all. I was originally planning to have to draft the pattern, but I wound up finding a Simplicity Pattern (S8330) that had the exact type of bodice I was looking for, so I used that. I did draft the skirt, but really I just made a circle skirt and cut some tentacles out of it. I didn't have enough fabric to do it properly, which is why some of them are really short or really thin.
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Original sketch for the dress. Marine Biology fun fact of the day: Squids have 8 arms and 2 tentacles.
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So my goal this week was just to install the zipper back on a costume that I made for a Halloween dance last fall. Long story short, I made this before I brought my sewing machine with me to Florida, so making this originally was a hassle. I wound up borrowing two machines from friends, one was a child's machine that couldn't handle sewing more than about 12 inches at a time, and another didn't have any sort of foot on it, and since I have the world's worst luck with breaking needles lately, I wound up sewing most of it by hand. Oh, and I only had 2 days to sew between actually cutting fabric to having to wear it for a swing dance. So it's safe to say the original had a lot of room for improvement.
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| There is only one good use for blue eyeshadow and that's to distract people from the fact that your dress is unfinished. |
This week, all I wanted to do was reinstall the zipper so it wouldn't just be hand basted on. I did get that done, so I'm calling this week a success. I also pressed open the seams, gave the lining a good iron, hemmed the lining, and prepped it for later embellishing, which will probably be a later project, as well as redoing the tulle underskirt that went with it.
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| The sad mess of a squid I started with. |
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| The inside needed some TLC. |
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| For some reason when I sewed the skirt to the bodice, I had the seams pressed to the side instead of open which is really weird for me and I didn't notice until after I started pressing them open so oh well. |
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| The lining didn't match up to the end, so I smoothed it down and pinned it so the lining wouldn't cause any pulling and the outer shell would lie nice and flat. |
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| I quickly folded down and stitched the outer layer of the back opening so that when I installed the zipper, I wouldn't be left with a raw edge. |
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| I also turned under and stitched the lining so that when I eventually sew it down, it will also not have a raw edge. |
And it just occurred to me that even though installing the zipper was the main point of this post, I wound up not taking any pictures of that. Oh well.
Since I already had everything I needed, which was the zipper, thread, and the costume, this is my first $0 project of the year! Not really the point of the challenge, but I'll take some small victories.
Week 3 budget: $1.92
Week 3 spent: $0
Week 3 leftover: $1.92
January budget: $8.33
January spent: $10.57
January leftover: -$2.24
Year budget: $100
Year spent: $10.57
Year left: $89.43
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