Birthday gift for my sister
It was my sister's birthday not long ago and she just turned 7. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KID! She asked me to sew her a little dress for her baby doll, so I said okay.
I did a single sewing project in my life most of which was hand stitched. It was an Alucard cosplay from Castlevania SOTN, the game version. But yh, I'm def not experienced and much less at femenine clothing but that's not a problem because you can hide every flaw with bows and lace.
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For the design I went for some lolita looking thing. Gothic lolita in specific is my favorite style for femenine fashion ever since I was introduced to it through DAS FEENREICH (Yousei Teikoku). Yes Yui.
Ye, let me tell you about the materials I used.
🕂 Some old bag that my mom wanted to throw away.
🕂 A ribbon that my sister herself gave me to use.
🕂 Lace from a local cheap store that costs less than an euro.
🕂 A lot of hot glue.
🕂 Usual sewing crap kit (pins and needles, thread, maybe a sewing machine if you can sew small things there. I cannot)
If you're expecting me to pull out some sort of pattern or measurments then you will be disappointed. I freestyled this dress and I think you can tell. No patterns no measurments, fuck not even a ruler. I just took the fabric and started cutting. I kind of traced a little her other dress as a base. modified some shit and mirrored it all, which was only for the top part (obviously the best looking part, the rest kind of looks goofy).
I ran out of fabric and resources because the dress wasn't supposed to look like that but more like this:
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First I flipped the bag inside out cuz it had some stupid Hello Kitty pattern on it that was impossible to remove (lol you can see the serged allowence) Then I started cutting pieces and mirroring them to reduce time. Front and 2 backs. The collar was quite simple, I just imagined the shape of a collar and how it's built and started cutting. Of course mirrored so it's even on both sides. Usually collars are a single piece but I cut mine in two because the fabric wasn't long enough.
Hot glue saves asses because it would have been impossible to finish this without it. If you look closely at the dress you can tell that a lot of parts aren't really stitched together. Especially the bottom of the skirt, there is no stitch. I fucked up that part a little (a lot). It looks better irl trust TRUST. In total I have spent around 6h working on it.
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Since it's a doll I couldn't care less about how well it's put together. She's not going to move around like a real human. If my sister ever wants a dress but for herself I will obviously make it properly, even with that weird french curved ruler, yesyes, very professional +_+
Regardless of how unprofessional my work is, my sister loved the gift and she's very happy. She said that she's going to flex it and tell everyone "my brother made this for me
" so this is a success.