I'm working on making a little 'Fairy Godmother' dress for Phairby. And I do mean LITTLE! I'm using some old, very fine silk, and leftover bits of fine cotton lace....
The silk is thinner than a single ply of toilet paper, it's so fine. I still had some from long ago from a company that sold small squares for making 1/12th scale dollhouse doll clothes. The biggest piece I had was a lovely periwinkle blue, so that's the main colour of the dress. It will be in the Rococo style. Everything is so tiny that I'm sewing with a fine beading needle. 'Flower' trim on the underskirt is just French knots made with embroidery floss...
I'm currently working on the overskirt and sleeves. The lace edging has been sewn on, and now i have to make the ruching to cover the stitching, using the mauve 4mm silk ribbon....
I traced the patterns so I can offer them as 'slopers'. I'm going to start a new section in Tutorials for Pattern Slopers, which will be just the patterns or templates I designed, but without all the step-by-step detailed instructions of my earlier tutorials. So, basically for more advanced sewers who can figure out what to do with them on their own.
It will be a test to see how they go over, since the intention is for experienced sewers to use them and modify them for their own needs. If I end up getting inundated by emails from beginners, asking for more detailed explanations on how to make a specific outfit, then I will stop providing them, because I don't need that kind of stress.
I can't go back and create a step-by-step tutorial after the fact, since those kinds of illustrated instructions require having taken photos of each step along the way - which is impossible once an outfit is done. Plus there's many outfits I don't intend to repeat. But I can offer just the patterns, when I feel like sharing one. However, I will not take requests.
I traced four sets of patterns today - two sizes of FID bodices, Christine's dressing gown, and Phairby's dress - and will post them when I get to them. So I'll see how it goes, and if it turns out to be worthwhile.
It will be a test to see how they go over, since the intention is for experienced sewers to use them and modify them for their own needs. If I end up getting inundated by emails from beginners, asking for more detailed explanations on how to make a specific outfit, then I will stop providing them, because I don't need that kind of stress.
I can't go back and create a step-by-step tutorial after the fact, since those kinds of illustrated instructions require having taken photos of each step along the way - which is impossible once an outfit is done. Plus there's many outfits I don't intend to repeat. But I can offer just the patterns, when I feel like sharing one. However, I will not take requests.
I traced four sets of patterns today - two sizes of FID bodices, Christine's dressing gown, and Phairby's dress - and will post them when I get to them. So I'll see how it goes, and if it turns out to be worthwhile.
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