Next mission...

I cut the block fitting process short to get a dress done by Faerie Fest, so I'm going to get back to that now. Initial blocks:

I made the bodice pattern, but I moved the shoulder dart immediately and... I moved it wrong. Here are instructions for how to actually move a shoulder dart. What I did left a gaping back neckline. Oops. So I'm going to re-draft from standard measurements (because basically all of that went really well) and I'm going to save that as version 0 and THEN move the shoulder dart for version 1. It's late right now, so I can't use the sewing machine. But I can redraft the bodice and draft the skirt. I'll wait to draft the sleeve until I've finished the bodice. Here's a tutorial for a fitted skirt block that goes in at the knees. Which would be impossible to walk in, but I think would be helpful for me to have if I want a slit dress or a hip cutout like I did before, or a mermaid tail.

My current list of projects:

A few weeks later...

I have learned so much.

I did end up making a dress that basically was the aesthetic I wanted. I made a bunch of mistakes in sewing so it's very much more asymmetric than I meant it to be. Here's the dress in action:

And here's the final pattern:

I cut out the sides of some tights and sewed chains on so I have underclothes that are open at the hip.

First steps...

Sewing a dress for faeriefest. Here's a good tutorial for doing facing on a sweetheart neckline. Ideally, I'll pleat the top, but if not, then really the only thing I don't have a semi-working prototype for is the back of the top. Or we can do bias facing.

Um...wow...um... I guess what I'm doing is "pattern drafting" and there's way better ways to do it. And... it's maybe not that hard to learn. This course seems pretty fun and useful.

I guess what I want is to make "basic block" patterns that fit my body the way I like.

Cute materials for blocks: white gel pen on black poster paper.

Shopping list:

Things I've been wanting: