Today I'm having lots of issues with several things. First of all, the linings on the bodices for the repurposed toddler dresses just ride all over the place - even when they've been basted into place. I've worked with velveteen and velour many times and know enough to hand-baste everything first, but this brown stretch velour is much worse than usual - even when it's been backed with iron-on interfacing to keep it from stretching. I've never had so many problems. Even on something as small as a doll bodice, there's a 1/4" drift just for the basting, and then even more when I sew it. Not to mention, even with the basting the lining is bunching up all over the place. I've sewn just two bodices and had to pick out large sections of both. I guess my mistake was cutting out the linings the exact same size as the velour bodice pieces. So what to do? There's not enough fabric to start over, and picking everything apart and starting from scratch is not an option either, so I cut a 1" strip of the lining fabric and stitched it to the bottom of all the bodice pieces. Hopefully that will solve the problem, at least around the waist.
Next is the Apoxie mask for Queen of the Night. I need to under-paint it silver, but none of my acrylic paints are silver enough. In the past I've sometimes used Chrome Bumper Paint to make things a nice shiny silver. It's a lacquer-based paint, and I know it can't be used on polymer clay because it reacts with the surface and makes it sticky - permanently. But what about on Apoxy? I spent a long time researching online, first on the Aves site, but couldn't find anything at all about using lacquer-based paints. There's mention of mixing oil paint into the Apoxy in order to colour it, but nothing about painting the surface with oil paints. So I thought I'd just take a chance, and spray the mask and see what happens.
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