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ALRIGHT ITS UPDATE TIME

And several things have occurred.

For one, The corset works! I had to seam rip the top seam too after I trimmed the bottom edges to be able to get the zip tie bones in the gussets a lot easier but it works! The grommets were simple enough after just kinda. Cutting little plus signs on where I wanted them and doing as the intructions say in putting the taller piece down on the black piece, the fabric hole over that, then the shorter washer piece down, and using the setter and hammering it carefully.

The way I used to cut the zip ties to slightly shorter than the channels: stick them in as far as they’ll go and then just. Pull out a bit and use your finger as a guide for where the fabric stopped with the ties shoved in all the way, mark that spot, and cut them a bit more than your seam allowance away from the mark you made. I went with what probably ended up more than 1/8”(3.175 mm) and just folded the seam allowance back in and just sewed the lining and the outside back together. For the lace. I used what is either 1/2”(12.7 mm) or 3/4”(19.05 mm) or somewhere in between that for laces and. I might have measured the ribbon by lacing myself up in it and adding what is at least 2’(60.96 cm) or 3’(91.44 cm).

Yes I left the laces in there after I got out of it mostly so I can find the ends of the ribbon again a bit more easily.

I have the pants. Mostly done but apparently the sizes are goofed in that sizing up for the waist and sitting at the pattern size a size up for the hips. Is tight at the hips. Which in turn pulls the zipper pieces to the side. And makes it obvious that despite the size being one up from what the pattern measurements say, it clearly is tight and so that becomes an interesting issues of adding fabric around the bottom of the edge of the pockets. But at the least I got the line/grooved look done!

For the lines. I kinda just drew a bunch of straight lines spaced 1 and 9/16 of an inch(3.97cm) apart to account a little bit for the stupidly narrow little ridges I sewed on the inside so the seam of said ridge on the outside gives that funky grooved look enough.

And thats about it for now cause I might have forgotten that the front of the vest for one has its own gap at the front edges with the snaps and also tapers upward and reaches upwards a decent bit.

Like waist high. I may or may not need to somehow shorten the corset.

It’ll be fine. Someway, somehow it will.

Edit: forgot the metric version of 1 and 9/16 inches

It’s update time and guess who got zip ties for the thinner bones of this corset?

Anyways, I spent the last….2? 2 and a half? hours sewing most of the boning channels to this thing.

I continue to underestimate just how much the camera on my phone manages to unfocus between a pretty clear photo and hitting the button to take the picture.

I figured for adding the channels for the lining and had a thought of wait, these go in the seam anyways, just do double channels with the seam allowances. And that said, zip ties while apparently according to Reddit are good enough for a cheap alternative to actual boning, also tend to not quite reach 1/4”(6.35mm) wide. They tend to be 3/16”(4.76mm) for thinner ones and everywhere here the 24”(60.96cm) long ones are 3/8”(9.53mm) wide. So those are going in the center and on either side of the grommets.

Now this is….how many pieces do I have? 10 per half? 20 pieces and two channels per seam and 19 seams because I haven’t sewn the channels on the edges of the corset yet. 38 boning channels in two, two and a half hours and this may seem fast. Or it might not. Idk how long boning channels usually take. Anyways, this is because I found after sewing by mistake cause I forgot I’m using the seam to wrap over the edge of the lining because when I cut the lining I did a dumb and forgot to add the seam allowance to the edge from the adjusted pattern piece from the mock up.

Well. I sewed one of the thicker zip ties as a guide and checked it and found out a neat little detail, this and with one of the smaller zip ties. And found out the little hole in the foot where the needle goes with the 5/8”(1.59cm) seam allowances edge at the edge of that hole is perfect for the big zip ties and the seam itself at either side of the foot and sewing the seam allowance flat is likewise perfect for the thinner zip ties.

Will this work with any other brand machine foot? I have no idea I just know it worked with mine and didn’t question it for worry of jinxing it and likely causing the machine to decide to jam.

Anyways, i ended work for the night on this with sewing the top seam.

But Lantern, why the top? Well. The top edges of both halves are an even line. The bottom edges. Look like Jack O Lantern teeth. Which I’ll probably be trimming for sake of ease of sewing an even seam.

Thats all for now, now I go to spectate my friends slaying or suffering in IDV, there seems to be no in between.

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I have four ringtones and two are seasonal for the season that is Christmas time. The default is the Halloween Theme for people not on my contacts list so I know vaguely as to if I answer it or not, and contacts are set to the Gravity Falls theme. Both are loud and for Christmas season Halloween theme gets replaced by the Gremlins Theme and the Gravity Falls theme gets changed to Lampoon’s. Close second for year round not in my contacts was gonna be the Lullaby that Dead By Daylight’s Huntress hums that I know. Most of the letters in the name but not quite the order one moment.

Bayushki Bayu, oh good i did have the letters in order just the words backwards. But yeah it was a close second but decided against cause I worried that it wouldn’t be loud enough.

it's kind of sad that we don't really do custom ringtones anymore. most people just stick with the default list that comes with your phone, if they change it at all. if they're even aware they can change it at all. like yeah, people letting their phones ring in public is obnoxious, but wouldn't it be a little less obnoxious if it was something funny? or personal? people used to change the text tone of every contact so every time they got a text they knew who it was just from the sound. isn't that sweet? isn't that nice? don't you miss it? don't you want to scream when you hear that stupid apple pa-Ting!??? we could have a chorus of awoogas and clips of people's favorite songs and recordings saying '(blank) IS CALLING, WARNING, (blank) IS CALLING' and all things considered i would prefer that over pa-Ting!, pa-Ting!, pa-Ting!, whistle whistle, pa-Ting!

anyway im going to change my ringtone to the oldschool skype call sound and nobody will ever hear it because my phone is always on silent but i'll know. i'll know

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It’s update time and guess who got zip ties for the thinner bones of this corset?

Anyways, I spent the last….2? 2 and a half? hours sewing most of the boning channels to this thing.

I continue to underestimate just how much the camera on my phone manages to unfocus between a pretty clear photo and hitting the button to take the picture.

I figured for adding the channels for the lining and had a thought of wait, these go in the seam anyways, just do double channels with the seam allowances. And that said, zip ties while apparently according to Reddit are good enough for a cheap alternative to actual boning, also tend to not quite reach 1/4”(6.35mm) wide. They tend to be 3/16”(4.76mm) for thinner ones and everywhere here the 24”(60.96cm) long ones are 3/8”(9.53mm) wide. So those are going in the center and on either side of the grommets.

Now this is….how many pieces do I have? 10 per half? 20 pieces and two channels per seam and 19 seams because I haven’t sewn the channels on the edges of the corset yet. 38 boning channels in two, two and a half hours and this may seem fast. Or it might not. Idk how long boning channels usually take. Anyways, this is because I found after sewing by mistake cause I forgot I’m using the seam to wrap over the edge of the lining because when I cut the lining I did a dumb and forgot to add the seam allowance to the edge from the adjusted pattern piece from the mock up.

Well. I sewed one of the thicker zip ties as a guide and checked it and found out a neat little detail, this and with one of the smaller zip ties. And found out the little hole in the foot where the needle goes with the 5/8”(1.59cm) seam allowances edge at the edge of that hole is perfect for the big zip ties and the seam itself at either side of the foot and sewing the seam allowance flat is likewise perfect for the thinner zip ties.

Will this work with any other brand machine foot? I have no idea I just know it worked with mine and didn’t question it for worry of jinxing it and likely causing the machine to decide to jam.

Anyways, i ended work for the night on this with sewing the top seam.

But Lantern, why the top? Well. The top edges of both halves are an even line. The bottom edges. Look like Jack O Lantern teeth. Which I’ll probably be trimming for sake of ease of sewing an even seam.

Thats all for now, now I go to spectate my friends slaying or suffering in IDV, there seems to be no in between.

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I literally just added three more brighter but less saturated green paint chips to the actual sponge of a fricking wall I tried and will try again to paint green. That green in the last picture is the color I’m trying to match and failing miserably.

people should just embrace jewel tones already if I see one more house entirely decorated in washed out neutral colours I’m gonna sue someone

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Update time!

Turns out, the heavy duty zip ties are 3/8” thick so I’ll probably be using those for boning the center front seam and the spaces around the grommets, and until sometime this weekend when I go to Harbor freight to see if their longer 20 pack of zip ties are equally thick or not, I got to sewing on the vest.

…And promptly forgot to take pictures of most of my progress. I’m using a simplicity pattern I got a while ago when hobby lobby still had either 99 cent or $2 pattern sales and I have made the snaps as invisible as I possibly can.

But the snaps!

Yes that is a cheap little plastic hammer snap thing from hobby lobby.

So I read the instructions and forgot to get a picture while I got the hole half of the snaps set, but the instructions. The source of a surprisingly part of negative reviews for a lot of snap setters is apparently because the plastic broke which. Yeah fair but I also have to wonder if they treated the plastic like a really stubborn nail. That said I’ve had no problems with this asides from getting them slotted into the little dent the base pieces fits into and getting the top aligned before I realized that middle part was separate from the top.

Listen I read the instructions and somehow missed entirely the mention of the middle being a separate movable piece to help place the snap parts of the snaps.

But anyways, they turned out good I think! At the very least they stay attached and snap and unsnap XD.

And thats about what progress I have until I get some sort of buckle for the little back belt and get the trim painted silver.

Next I’m either sewing the pants plus adding the lines details or sewing the boning channels into the corset, depending on if I get zip ties first or not.

ALRIGHT AFTER…how long has it been? 4 weeks? Longer? Whoops but life happens and currently that is in the form of finding out the dudes who built on the second bathroom for one messed up the tape and for two didn’t seal the drywall.

At all. No drywall sealer no paint primer absolutely ZILCH. How do we know they didn’t? Well. Pretty sure paint aint supposed to peel off the walls like layers of nail polish and or dead skin after a horrendous sunburn. And that said side against the wall be the paint color with bits of the paper fibers from the drywall stuck to it.

Anywho the sewing update: because I thought it was more economical and probably because I unconsciously make myself suffer from my choices, I ordered the poplin for the vest and pants and the long part of the sleeves of the coat.

But wait, that doesn’t sound horrible. Well. I ordered as opposed to 4 yards (3.66m) of an average 45/60” (1.15/1.5m) wide fabric, I order 2 yards (1.83m) of 118” (2.99m) fabric.

There is no large enough space to lay all of that out flat.

So I just smoothed out an end to cut the pieces out from and had the rest of it just kinda piled to the side against the hallway wall.

I got everything cut out for the vest and pants interfacing included and I went to get the cut out corset pieces of lining, canvas, and two layers of medium interfacing that I have left from last year’s attempt. That I still have more of.

Featuring the half inch bias tape I have to use as vest detailing once I paint it silver with the actual non heat set Tulip brush on fabric paint. And so the past couple hours have been basting the interfacing in place on the corset pieces and the front vest pieces with overlock thread as opposed to the regular sewing thread.

Behold the pile this was in. I got the canvas outside all sewn together and I am in the process of just yanking the basting out from where I put it offset 1/8” (3mm) from the seam allowance seam with the biggest stitch my machine can make that I know of. Namely a 4 on the little stitch length dial.

Anyways thats all for now because in my time that I’m not working on this I am driving myself insane with trying to figure out the lights before I even get the coat done enough to measure and guess how much lights this will need.

Mostly because after staring at Necromancer’s glowing that fades in and out, or rather dims in and out, I’ve noticed that his eyes and the cracks are synced but not his hair. So coding lights is gonna be interesting to figure out later.

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ALRIGHT AFTER…how long has it been? 4 weeks? Longer? Whoops but life happens and currently that is in the form of finding out the dudes who built on the second bathroom for one messed up the tape and for two didn’t seal the drywall.

At all. No drywall sealer no paint primer absolutely ZILCH. How do we know they didn’t? Well. Pretty sure paint aint supposed to peel off the walls like layers of nail polish and or dead skin after a horrendous sunburn. And that said side against the wall be the paint color with bits of the paper fibers from the drywall stuck to it.

Anywho the sewing update: because I thought it was more economical and probably because I unconsciously make myself suffer from my choices, I ordered the poplin for the vest and pants and the long part of the sleeves of the coat.

But wait, that doesn’t sound horrible. Well. I ordered as opposed to 4 yards (3.66m) of an average 45/60” (1.15/1.5m) wide fabric, I order 2 yards (1.83m) of 118” (2.99m) fabric.

There is no large enough space to lay all of that out flat.

So I just smoothed out an end to cut the pieces out from and had the rest of it just kinda piled to the side against the hallway wall.

I got everything cut out for the vest and pants interfacing included and I went to get the cut out corset pieces of lining, canvas, and two layers of medium interfacing that I have left from last year’s attempt. That I still have more of.

Featuring the half inch bias tape I have to use as vest detailing once I paint it silver with the actual non heat set Tulip brush on fabric paint. And so the past couple hours have been basting the interfacing in place on the corset pieces and the front vest pieces with overlock thread as opposed to the regular sewing thread.

Behold the pile this was in. I got the canvas outside all sewn together and I am in the process of just yanking the basting out from where I put it offset 1/8” (3mm) from the seam allowance seam with the biggest stitch my machine can make that I know of. Namely a 4 on the little stitch length dial.

Anyways thats all for now because in my time that I’m not working on this I am driving myself insane with trying to figure out the lights before I even get the coat done enough to measure and guess how much lights this will need.

Mostly because after staring at Necromancer’s glowing that fades in and out, or rather dims in and out, I’ve noticed that his eyes and the cracks are synced but not his hair. So coding lights is gonna be interesting to figure out later.

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Us American and all fifty with 7:20 left on the 10 minute timer so thats…2:40? Granted I do the name em all Pokémon quiz thing a lot and the map helps way more than Pokédex order even though I can’t see half the map because of the keyboard but I just kinda went in a funky squiggle with naming.

And also forgot Connecticut in my “name all the tiny ones now so you don’t have to squint to pick out which one doesn’t have the name on it” name binge.

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Alright it’s been two weeks and chaos is happening namely in the form of trying to clean the “we’ll put the new flooring in your room first and let’s move the packed stuff to your room lantern” stuff into packed away in some degree of order because we’re getting new windows.

And I gotta paint the walls again. First it was just the first wall looking like half watered acrylic with three layers of paint bar the cutting in and now it’s all three of the rest of the walls slowly absorbing the paint.

Also trips to various Lowe’s and Home Depot for planting stuff. Which at the least I got plants out of it.

So far the only progress I’ve made costume wise is adjusting the packing tape and plastic wrap pattern to what I think fits? Or at the least the mock-up after adjusting didn’t overlap anymore in the back. So the pieces have been picked back apart, the end pieces that were overlapping were. Sorta removed.

And by sorta I mean I just folded them back at the seam and did a stitch 1/8” ish from the edge to keep the combined edges of the last two pieces on either side as a flat straight edge to test.

I know I’m gonna need flat steel boning to keep the lacing….sturdier? More stable? Keep the grommets from pulling as much? Not sure what sort of strength the flat steel exactly lends asides from makes the grommets and lacing hold up longer somehow. But in theory the corset may be sturdy enough to not need bones if I use a couple layers of canvas and lining? Not sure but canvas is usually sturdy? If it’s used for tote bags I would hope it holds up well anyways.

But anyways no pictures cause chaos is happening but hopefully I can get the corset made albeit without the bones cause uh. I still gotta order the stuff.

Also, side note still IdentityV related, regarding Explorer’s buff in test server. What do they mean “added protection against position swaps with Hell Ember and puppet”? Seriously I’m wondering what they mean by this cause tiny Explorer is already invisible to the puppets so what in the world are they talking about?

Alright so update on the next stage of the costume aka catch the shirt close with a corset so the vest can be fitted. I made the mock-up from these previous shipping tape plastic wrap mummy pieces plus seam allowance.

When the bobbin thread runs out sewing the second to last mock-up seam:

And looking at it. It doesn’t look like anything is wrong.

HOWEVER.

Somehow from the pattern made up the very end pieces, the ones that the grommets would go on? Pulled around where it would normally be. Those two pieces OVERLAP.

And I don’t mean just a little they entirely overlap ENTIRELY.

So I have two options her and it’s take off the last end piece entirely, and make the next to last piece on the sides the grommet pieces instead, OR I open the pattern I got with plans to make a Kuromi Mary/either False Hope costume and use the corset pattern in that.

(I can’t find it right now cause it’s gotten buried somewhere in the Necromancer costume stuff that’s scattered around but it’s the McCall’s corset pattern that’s got the hoop skirt pattern too that I got on sale)

So next update I will. Hopefully have a complete corset pattern and machine willing. (I fully expect the machine to jam a lot trying to sew two layers of canvas and lining)

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Alright so update on the next stage of the costume aka catch the shirt close with a corset so the vest can be fitted. I made the mock-up from these previous shipping tape plastic wrap mummy pieces plus seam allowance.

When the bobbin thread runs out sewing the second to last mock-up seam:

And looking at it. It doesn’t look like anything is wrong.

HOWEVER.

Somehow from the pattern made up the very end pieces, the ones that the grommets would go on? Pulled around where it would normally be. Those two pieces OVERLAP.

And I don’t mean just a little they entirely overlap ENTIRELY.

So I have two options her and it’s take off the last end piece entirely, and make the next to last piece on the sides the grommet pieces instead, OR I open the pattern I got with plans to make a Kuromi Mary/either False Hope costume and use the corset pattern in that.

(I can’t find it right now cause it’s gotten buried somewhere in the Necromancer costume stuff that’s scattered around but it’s the McCall’s corset pattern that’s got the hoop skirt pattern too that I got on sale)

So next update I will. Hopefully have a complete corset pattern and machine willing. (I fully expect the machine to jam a lot trying to sew two layers of canvas and lining)

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So after much repair related annoyance, I am back with the shirt is done asides from a final detail that can wait until I get the other major factors of this done.

So the ruffles in the sleeves. Well. This was a funky method of folding each ruffle to like origami sort of except marking where the top visible fold would sit, and then because I do not trust ANYTHING to stay where it’s supposed to be except for a lot of not slippery poly or solid cotton, pins!

Featuring hair from the dog who deems it safe enough to lay as close as possible to the shirt without paws being on it. After hand sewing, they looked good. Or at the least I’m happy with them and frankly so long as you’re happy with what you make who cares what other people think.

So this means the next step of fold this over so theres a little elastic channel on the inside means more pins and frankly. I’m more surprised the machine didn’t jam.

And as for the elastic. I put a safety pin in both ends and threaded it in from the little gap I left in the row of stitching. Why two safety pins? Because I thought the pin was going to get stuck in the folds of the ruffles far more than it actually did, and then not notice if I just pulled the whole elastic too far and have to redo it.

And so after that I sewed the ends together with the zigzag on the machine which I don’t have a picture of because the elastic did not want to stay put and is too thin to pin and I had to have one hand holding the elastic in place and the other hand using the hand wheel to sew stitches. But after dealing with that twice, the shirt is otherwise done.

Oh my gods the blur. Instead of trying to fight more technology in getting a clearer picture, I’m just gonna go fight the paper pieces of the hopefully fitting corset pattern that refuse to lay flat without weights.

Alright in the time since last actual update on the shirt I’ve gotten the ends of the sleeves hemmed and the bottom edge of the shirt hemmed after much arguing with the infernal sewing machine.

It’s less an issue of finding the right settings and more an issue of I think a gremlin every so often decides to possess the darn thing and tries to eat the fabric by way of….I think the term is bird nesting? This is with cleaning the bobbin area often precisely because it tends to do this seemingly at random. Sew a couple of yards of hem, BIRDNEST.

But at least the hems look nice.

Now comes the complex part, the ruffles. So I’m sewing in ruffles to try and get that funky wavy ruffled look the cuff has from the gathering as seen here:

And because of regular inconvenience suffering playing him and getting more often then not double duo teams, four man teams, voice chat teams, smurfs, or any combination of those, also because with the way I plan to sew the ruffles because they kinda look like pleated ruffles, I have decided to hand sew the ruffles which will be its own form of inconvenience suffering.

Also because with the fact that each half of a ruffle would be three layers, and a whole ruffle being two three layered sections, I have more than a couple doubts that the machine wouldn’t try to eat the fabric constantly and would be a at risk of ruining the sleeves.

So, step one, measure and sew a base line upon which the hand stitching will go.

Step two, start marking the end points of the entire ruffles, mark a point in the middle where the edges meet, and then from the outside end marks mark a third of the way towards the middle mark.

So this probably makes less sense but for simplicity and because it just occurred to me how the side view of each half ruffle looks, picture a z and a backwards z. Wait do I have a picture where I explained to a friend how the ruffles would look

Yes I do! I just have to do this…for 6.75”(17.15 cm rounded up a decimal).

Twice.

So the next time I update will probably be either when I get both sleeve ruffles done or after that when I get the elastic added to the sleeves

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Alright in the time since last actual update on the shirt I’ve gotten the ends of the sleeves hemmed and the bottom edge of the shirt hemmed after much arguing with the infernal sewing machine.

It’s less an issue of finding the right settings and more an issue of I think a gremlin every so often decides to possess the darn thing and tries to eat the fabric by way of….I think the term is bird nesting? This is with cleaning the bobbin area often precisely because it tends to do this seemingly at random. Sew a couple of yards of hem, BIRDNEST.

But at least the hems look nice.

Now comes the complex part, the ruffles. So I’m sewing in ruffles to try and get that funky wavy ruffled look the cuff has from the gathering as seen here:

And because of regular inconvenience suffering playing him and getting more often then not double duo teams, four man teams, voice chat teams, smurfs, or any combination of those, also because with the way I plan to sew the ruffles because they kinda look like pleated ruffles, I have decided to hand sew the ruffles which will be its own form of inconvenience suffering.

Also because with the fact that each half of a ruffle would be three layers, and a whole ruffle being two three layered sections, I have more than a couple doubts that the machine wouldn’t try to eat the fabric constantly and would be a at risk of ruining the sleeves.

So, step one, measure and sew a base line upon which the hand stitching will go.

Step two, start marking the end points of the entire ruffles, mark a point in the middle where the edges meet, and then from the outside end marks mark a third of the way towards the middle mark.

So this probably makes less sense but for simplicity and because it just occurred to me how the side view of each half ruffle looks, picture a z and a backwards z. Wait do I have a picture where I explained to a friend how the ruffles would look

Yes I do! I just have to do this…for 6.75”(17.15 cm rounded up a decimal).

Twice.

So the next time I update will probably be either when I get both sleeve ruffles done or after that when I get the elastic added to the sleeves

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Just text update on the shirt cause the damn machine said time to be a problem and jam and bird nest jam at that MULTIPLE TIMES even with each time rethreading and cleaning the machine that is trying my patience.

Anyways, I noticed that part of the French seams are managing to fray themselves out so to solve this I am going back over them and rolling the seams for them, and still manually shoving the fabric into the metal roll of the rolled hem foot.

Seriously why do tutorials say use the anchor threads when they won’t pull this in unless it has to be stouter fabric than voile in which case please, MENTION THAT.

Anyways the most surprising thing that hasn’t happened. Wait no I shouldn’t say the thing that shockingly hasn’t happened because if I do IT’LL PROBABLY FRICKING HAPPEN.

Such is my luck with sewing and shiny hunting in Pokémon.

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Update time! Shorter due to mechanical difficulties!

I figured out the rolled hem foot and frankly the sew a couple straight stitches and then pull the fabric in the metal roll by the anchor strings…is either suited more for stuff that isn’t voile or to be taken with a sack of rock salt as instructions. So, i just. Manually with my own fingers got the fabric curled into that little metal roll and far enough to where the needle could catch and started sewing.

Now I double rolled these mostly because I saw the tiniest of frays and said nope roll again. The corner of the two bits. Well. I used a zigzag stitch closer together for that and it’s not fraying to pieces yet so hopefully that worked.

Onto the collar I sewed it together with an 1/8 inch(3.175 aka 3 and tiny little decimal mm) seam and then sewed that to the where it goes on the shirt neck hole

Ah the wonderful sight of tiny seam on fabric that frays horrendously not fraying more than it was. And so I went on and French seamed it to finish it up so I could start in the sleeves and sewing the gussets

…I did not realize this ended up blurry XD

But anyways I went on to start on the arm gusset for the first sleeve and it was going great!

And then I started sewing the actual sleeve seam same as prior and I should’ve expected it. I really, really should have known that nothing goes well for the whole duration of the project.

“But what went wrong?” If anyone sees this and wonders, well.

The damn machine jammed halfway down the rest of the sleeve seam. Specifically, the top thread has tangled itself up somewhere in the mechanics under the plate and behind where the bobbin sits. I’d have a picture if it was visible enough to photograph.

I can get it untangled, I just need to let it sit a moment and also let my knees unlock themselves and give my back a break from being hunched over this.

So! Im breaking shirt updates into initial post plus a reblog update because I have no idea how to add a read more cut. No y’all(if anyone even sees this) read that right.

I never claimed to be good at social media but I can at least make a costume that’ll hopefully look good when it’s done.

Onto the update! I got the collar cut and lines added.

Pardon the funky angle the phone decides when it wants pictures to stay in the orientation that Im holding the phone in and when it wants to be a bugger.

And after that, I sewed the lines on the neck gussets before I forgot to.

Yes I know I didn’t sew lines on closest to the folded edge of the gusset. Because they would get eaten by the french seam that goes there when I attach the collar later. And I changed the embroidery thread out for the actual sewing thread.

Yes I forgot to swap them out for a very short seam. No it’s not noticeable cause it was for one of the first seams on the gusset edges for the french seam.

And before I sewed the ends of the collar, I got the dog hair and stray thread bit off the voile…

With a piece of paint tape rolled onto itself and by luck loose enough that it would roll around my finger.

Hey this was probably for the best considering I couldn’t find the full sized lint roller and this meant I didn’t have to worry as much about catching the edges of the fabric.

Tiny first seam of the whole french seam

Finished french seams and it’s probably hard to tell in this next picture but anyways

You can sorta see the little edges from the first seam in the second seam.

Anyways, I’d be working on this more but unfortunately for the neck slit or rather the split part Im gonna have to figure out how to use the rolled hem foot that came with the sewing machine to hem those edges and then sew the collar on.

But slight hiccup aside, I have high hopes that if nothing else works right this shirt will look neat at least.

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So! Im breaking shirt updates into initial post plus a reblog update because I have no idea how to add a read more cut. No y’all(if anyone even sees this) read that right.

I never claimed to be good at social media but I can at least make a costume that’ll hopefully look good when it’s done.

Onto the update! I got the collar cut and lines added.

Pardon the funky angle the phone decides when it wants pictures to stay in the orientation that Im holding the phone in and when it wants to be a bugger.

And after that, I sewed the lines on the neck gussets before I forgot to.

Yes I know I didn’t sew lines on closest to the folded edge of the gusset. Because they would get eaten by the french seam that goes there when I attach the collar later. And I changed the embroidery thread out for the actual sewing thread.

Yes I forgot to swap them out for a very short seam. No it’s not noticeable cause it was for one of the first seams on the gusset edges for the french seam.

And before I sewed the ends of the collar, I got the dog hair and stray thread bit off the voile…

With a piece of paint tape rolled onto itself and by luck loose enough that it would roll around my finger.

Hey this was probably for the best considering I couldn’t find the full sized lint roller and this meant I didn’t have to worry as much about catching the edges of the fabric.

Tiny first seam of the whole french seam

Finished french seams and it’s probably hard to tell in this next picture but anyways

You can sorta see the little edges from the first seam in the second seam.

Anyways, I’d be working on this more but unfortunately for the neck slit or rather the split part Im gonna have to figure out how to use the rolled hem foot that came with the sewing machine to hem those edges and then sew the collar on.

But slight hiccup aside, I have high hopes that if nothing else works right this shirt will look neat at least.

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Whoops I forgot I had my age on my tumblr description and my birthday was in January.

That said have I been referencing that one Detroit: Become Human meme for saying my age?

Yes. Yes I have

Also more hilariously that the 28 Years Later trailer dropped. December? I don’t remember but the gif of the…hell I forget what they’re called in the movie too many zombie/plague movies with different names for the infected.

The gif of the ancient withered one has also been referenced.

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Update time for the shirt!

I have most of the silver lines sewn bar the collar piece(that I had not cut out at the time of this picture because I have no intent to gather the collar at all and needed to measure the collar hole with the gussets added) and the little neck gussets.

That said, the neck gussets are the first thing I sewed and there is sound reasoning in an of it’s a lot easier to turn the fabric to sew the seams at the corner when that piece of fabric is still flat and one layer.

This is the second one because I forgot a picture of the first one. Yes I completely disregarded the two methods from the video of either sewing the gussets as a flat piece and then turning the edges over and sewing them in place or sewing the gusset edges to each other and then to the shirt.

But Cursed/Lantern, why did you sew the gussets like that?!

The answer to that: I French seamed the gussets.

Now, if anyone actually sees this and is wondering what the hell a French seam is(which considering Joseph Desaulniers is French is fitting), a French seam is a made out to be and explained as way more complicated than it probably is. For a French seam, you take your fabric, and first you sew it wrong sides together with a seam that apparently according to the plethora of explanations is trimmed after you do so. Then you fold the fabric right sides together and press that seam and sew again far enough from the pressed edge that the little seam flap are enclosed in this new little fabric tube that results.

Basically, if you squish this so the outside layers of the actual little seam are a circle ish shape and if the first seam you trimmed the edges stick up in the middle, it’s look like you made bunny ears or a peace sign in front of a flashlight’s light on a wall in a dark room for shadow puppets.

There are probably better descriptions for what it looks like and how to sew them. But it can be summed up as sew a seam wrong sides together, trim it close, fold the fabric right sides together and press and sew another seam line aways from the trimmed edges. Apparently this is good for sheer fabrics if you don’t use a rolled hem which. Is a whole different thing that to me looked more complicated than a French seam.

Now the thing I did because I didn’t want to trim the seams and decided to be very very careful with the voile so as to keep the edges from fraying as much as possible while moving the pieces. Was sew a tiny 1/8 of an inch ish seam (3.175 aka tiny fraction millimeters) and then after folding the fabric right sides together sew a 1/4”(6.35 not as tiny but still tiny fraction mm).

And I didn’t press the seam.

Yes I French seamed the neck gussets with more success than I thought would happen.

Aaand I forgot the picture of the absurdly tiny seam from the side that the seam edges are on.

Behold, the finished gusset French seams! That I can’t get a decent picture of the inside of the tube bit cause the collar edges are trying to curl on themselves.

The corner ps specifically are the parts that worked better than I thought it would namely in and of wow there’s less little gather ruffle/pucker than expected! That said, with no pressing and the seams being under the presser foot and fingers being too big to flatten the corner seam enough, how did I get the corner flat enough.

And the answer…

Yes, I used the larger of the two flathead screwdrivers that came with my sewing machine to smush the corner flat from the inside. Like turning particularly stubborn corners inside out for plushies.

Sometimes your own sewing hubris requires you get safely creative with how you solve a problem.

And with that thats all for this shirt update, the Temu wig has some progress on color shifting but currently is too blue and my phone’s camera is making it look far closer to the correct color than it is in person.

So I have been working on the second attempt Necromancer costume and uh. I kinda forget Ihave a tumblr that I was planning to post updates to?

So update time!

I had a hell of a time finding size 70/10 needles to sew the voile with and finally found them at hobby lobby along with a roll of their LED foam. Which we’ll see if it works as well as plastazote apparently does.

In between needle hunting though, I researched a lot on how I need to do the embroidery for the trench coat and made a tape and plastic wrap overbust corset pattern. No plastic wrap and tape encased Lantern pic though, cause I forgot and a was trying to keep the wrap from sliding down my back. But here’s the picture of the plastic wrap tape pieces but not the paper pattern pieces I made cause uh. I don’t have enough craft paint bottles at hand to weigh them all down because I cut them from a roll of paper and they all curling.

Yes, know I numbered pieces as 4 twice.

Now for the shirt! I got the pieces cut and after fighting the sewing machine metaphorically and a lot of researching on why the hell is the top thread snapping so much, have managed with cleaning the bobbin area out and leaving the top tension at a 2 ish and sewing slower and it’s actually not snapping anymore.

Wow I did not realize how blurred that is.

But progress! If anyone is wondering, I did not draw off the lines on the voile with my chalk or whatever the hell it is fabric pencil. I said 3/4” is good line spacing, and said I do not want a line right on top of the side seams. And then remembered that the machine plate has a mark for 6/8”. And so, for the first line from the edge of the fabric, I sewed the line with the edge of the fabric kept at the 6/8” line. The rest of those lines? I kept the previous line along the marker. Now, the plate is silver and the seam marks darker by shadow or design I do not know. But I thought of a solution when I realized that 6/8” line was harder to see under the voile. Behold!

WOW THAT’S BLURRY TOO granted I zoomed in a lot too.

Yes that’s a piece of blue painter’s tape with the edge of the tape along the 6/8” line. And it is easier to see! Listen if it works and helps you craft and ain’t dangerous it ain’t stupid.

Also, I do not have a pattern for this shirt persay. Instead, I found a YouTube tutorial on how to make a pirate shirt and the gussets are well explained so lemme figure out how to add a link uhhhhhhh.

Huzzah I figured it out! I don’t know how to attach it to clickable text but oh well!

I will update on the progress. When I make more substantial progress and remember to.

Edit: I forgot to add tags for sewing WHOOPS

[cursedlanternsstuff]

So I have been working on the second attempt Necromancer costume and uh. I kinda forget Ihave a tumblr that I was planning to post updates to?

So update time!

I had a hell of a time finding size 70/10 needles to sew the voile with and finally found them at hobby lobby along with a roll of their LED foam. Which we’ll see if it works as well as plastazote apparently does.

In between needle hunting though, I researched a lot on how I need to do the embroidery for the trench coat and made a tape and plastic wrap overbust corset pattern. No plastic wrap and tape encased Lantern pic though, cause I forgot and a was trying to keep the wrap from sliding down my back. But here’s the picture of the plastic wrap tape pieces but not the paper pattern pieces I made cause uh. I don’t have enough craft paint bottles at hand to weigh them all down because I cut them from a roll of paper and they all curling.

Yes, know I numbered pieces as 4 twice.

Now for the shirt! I got the pieces cut and after fighting the sewing machine metaphorically and a lot of researching on why the hell is the top thread snapping so much, have managed with cleaning the bobbin area out and leaving the top tension at a 2 ish and sewing slower and it’s actually not snapping anymore.

Wow I did not realize how blurred that is.

But progress! If anyone is wondering, I did not draw off the lines on the voile with my chalk or whatever the hell it is fabric pencil. I said 3/4” is good line spacing, and said I do not want a line right on top of the side seams. And then remembered that the machine plate has a mark for 6/8”. And so, for the first line from the edge of the fabric, I sewed the line with the edge of the fabric kept at the 6/8” line. The rest of those lines? I kept the previous line along the marker. Now, the plate is silver and the seam marks darker by shadow or design I do not know. But I thought of a solution when I realized that 6/8” line was harder to see under the voile. Behold!

WOW THAT’S BLURRY TOO granted I zoomed in a lot too.

Yes that’s a piece of blue painter’s tape with the edge of the tape along the 6/8” line. And it is easier to see! Listen if it works and helps you craft and ain’t dangerous it ain’t stupid.

Also, I do not have a pattern for this shirt persay. Instead, I found a YouTube tutorial on how to make a pirate shirt and the gussets are well explained so lemme figure out how to add a link uhhhhhhh.

Huzzah I figured it out! I don’t know how to attach it to clickable text but oh well!

I will update on the progress. When I make more substantial progress and remember to.

Edit: I forgot to add tags for sewing WHOOPS