Steampunk Coat

So much has happened. The wedding was crazy!  I'm blogging to enter into the world again with what that machine is making.  I went to Gen Con 2011, and made some Steampunk outfits. The one that I'd like to share today is from a pattern Simplicity 2172.  Steam Ingenious is having a contest. So I'm posting it here for all to see.  I'm not one for skirt wearing, so I did make pants (created my own pattern) for the outfit.

Here is the front of the coat before I finished it. For the pictures I have it paired with a plain black corset, the white pants and belt with leg straps that I made.

Here it is at Gen Con 2013 with part of my wedding ensemble.

And one more of the back.  I added some hook and eyes so that I could gather the coat in a pin tuck fashion.

Thanks for stopping by!

Steampunk from the closet....

Happy New Year....
     While I have had a busy 4 months, we have lost a member of our extended family. We have been hosting my mother in law since October... Cleaning out an estate...Thanksgiving, Christmas....working on the wedding and the store. So I feel like my hair is gray, my stress level....out of here!....
      Been looking at Pintrest way too much. Getting ideas for posts, looking at steam punk clothing for the ladies. So here is an outfit that I put together from my closet, while I did make the cami for my friend, I started with a pre-made one.  Salvation Army is my go to store, I love shopping there, I got everything there for this post.  

                                                                             This

from this

2 Belts, Cami, 2 Safety Pins,a clip and a piece of bias tape cut in half

Ann Taylor tiered skirt

I wanted to show a way to transform without permanently altering the skirt. I took the bias tape and used it to do the front gathers of the skirt, with the safety pins. 

then tuck them in

Add a shirt, even a button up white dress shirt would work. a couple of belts. One is like a belly dancer belt, paid a buck for it, that I used a jewelry clip to hold it together. The other looks a bit like bullets, I paid .80 cents for it.

Hope that this inspires you to look again in your closet.
I will be posting more in the weeks to come.

♥
Terri

                                                 

Take a sad dress, make it better...

While this has nothing to do with a wedding, it does have to do with sewing.  I have been busy doing nothing, we all know what that means, so I thought that I would share another bobbin post.

I am a hound for the Salvation Army shop, we have 3 where I live and love shopping there.  My favorite sale is the 5 for $5.  I got 5 formals the last sale I was at back in April, right before Prom.  I love formals, but dislike wearing dresses.  Strange I know.... here are the 5 that I got.

 I ♥ the silver one, who am I kidding, I love them all.
      When I heard that my niece was going to prom, I asked about her dress.  She said that was still up in the air, so I offered her one of my dresses.  Her fave color is hot pink, so that was a "Duh" moment.  { I bought the dress for her before I knew about prom}

First thing was to shorten it, but not to short, she's a tomboy, not a fashionista.  Shorten and pin tucks.

 So far, she was liking it.  she isn't a strapless dress kind of girl, so re-working the top was a must.

 We started by untying  the bow, and using it as a strap.  Wanting to brake up the solid pink so we started adding ribbon to add some color.  Her colors were cream, black, and gray.
  I had the bottom of the dress so a wanted to try a bustle. Very Marilyn, but not my niece.

 Without the bustle, and a no the the gray ribbon, it was time to think of something else.   So pin-able flowers.  I had some really wide cream ribbon, and I tried that with the flowers.

Lots of flowers

She didn't like the wide ribbon, so off with that.  I was a go with the flowers, so that's what I used.

She was happy with the way it turned out, so was I.  Look at what $5. looks like.

Tomboy? yes. Beautiful? Most Definitely! 

Well I'm off to bed. Fishing with Da in the morning!  I'll take some pix and post about the fun!

Night!

Monocle and Mustache Owl

    I was contacted to do a Fashion Show and Silent Auction fund raiser for the local Salvation Army.  I will post a picture show of that when it's over.  But I thought that I might share the Owl bag that I did for the silent auction.  

   This is what it looked like before I finished it, I added a pocket on the inside and cleaned up the lines.  The pocket was made from the same as the face fabric, it had a mustache out of the dotted material that makes up the bow tie.

    Here is what I started with, most items are scraps.
A canvas bag that has a printed logo, a piece of black crushed velvet, a sample of upholstery fabric, polka dotted fat quarter, brown fleece, and a fuzzy yellow.  Plus some buttons from the stash.

    You can see that I kinda already have starting drawing out the owl that I want.

Once I have the idea, I have to make a pattern for the face and the hat.






Then I cut out of the fabric and place it on the bag to make sure that it covers the printed logo, that I like the combo of the fabrics. I also made the bow tie.

So far so good. Now for the eyes.  As you will learn I have a TON of buttons.  some times it takes me an hour just to find the perfect buttons.
                            This was the second jar of                      browns, but I found them.

So there you have it!
" I mustache you a question, but I'll shave it for later!"

Thanks for the ♥!

This one I just finished.  There is a great piece in the upper right corner, it was drawn by this artist.  http://creepybluestorm.deviantart.com/art/Steampunk-Concept-Art-No-1-116499626.  This makes # 4 in the series of 6.

It was a long day, so I hope to get some bobbin posts up soon.

Another postcard....

Just dropping in to share this one, not sure that I'm completely happy with it.  It started with the idea of a Bride and her Father walking down to meet her groom.  Again, thanks to the web for most of the images.

Enjoy~

Saving the date.....

I got too tired to write any more and then I got busy.  But I'm back for now.  I have been working on a few posts for the blog. but am not ready to get them up.  I just finished the first 2 post cards that I am making as Save the Date cards.  I will me doing most of the work for the wedding, from the dress to the invites and everything in between. I will share all my ideas as I go. and try to give credit where it is do.

 I used my Print Artist program to make the background. the I started layering pictures that I found at http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com .  I had to do a lot of edge cutting so that you could see the background through.  They have some great graphics, I will be using them in other post cards.

Now that mustaches are all the rage, and being a bit steampunkish, I have to do this on, monocle and all.  I have to thank a friends daughter Brizzy, for always saying this. "I mustache u a question...but I'll shave it for later."  So be sure to Shave the Date.
Most of the images were in the Print Artist, I did get the eye and the double blade razor for the net.  The razor is from an old Gillette advertisement.


Off to get 2 more done before bed.  Busy day with a family reunion and a Birthday bash!