#i have next to no waist

[silverfoxstole]

It’s done!

After ten days of work (and another three for a waistcoat I’m not that happy with; see below), the NotD coat is finished! Woohoo!

Overall, I’m really pleased with it, which is just as well as it’s taken so much time (and grief!). I worked out that if I’d paid myself minimum wage for all the hours I put in the labour alone would amount to about £500. One of my ex colleagues used to suggest I set up a dressmaking business and wouldn’t believe me when I told her it wouldn’t be cost effective as the amount of labour involved would make everything too expensive.

Anyway, I have taken quite a lot of photos, so you can see how it turned out:

This got long so I’ll stick the rest behind a cut.

I ended up adding some extra fabric to the tails, as they were sticking out at an angle and didn’t look right. It means an extra seam but it’s not that visible and I much prefer it this way, with more fullness at the back (and it properly covers my bum, which is very important!):

Though it looks fine on the dummy when I put it on I’m not convinced I didn’t raise the back waist seam a bit too far, but it’s sitting on my waist so… *shrugs* I don’t often look at myself from behind so it probably doesn’t matter that much.

After sewing on the two back buttons I changed my mind and went with the covered ones in the end, deciding on reflection that those I bought last week were a bit too pale. They would have fitted better if I’d made the binding more of a contrast (which I’m glad I didn’t as it would have been more obvious that it’s not exactly perfect in some places). I had to make the buttonholes manually as there was no way the automatic buttonhole foot wouldn’t get caught at some point. I haven’t sewn any that way since I first started out six years ago and was using my mother’s old machine! All the ones I’ve owned have had an automatic function so I had to practice a bit to remind myself how to do it. Thankfully they’ve turned out well.

I also solved the problem of the gap between the collar and lapel by stitching them together. It works a treat!

Though I’ve made a miniature version for Eight Bear, this is the first time I’ve tried to replicate an existing garment for myself (the Dark Eyes coat was an interpretation rather than a direct copy), and I am actually really proud that I’ve ended up with something that does look pretty much like the original, as well as Steven Ricks’s recreation, which has been a definite influence!

That said, while the coat has turned out well I’m not massively pleased with the waistcoat. I decided to make another one on a whim as I had a more accurate pattern and saw what looked like an ideal fabric but I don’t like it all that much now it’s done. It was hell to put together because the satin just started disintegrating and still is; I’ve had to sew up holes in both the pockets because the seams have just frayed straight through and I’d put them together before I thought of stabilising the edges with interfacing. It’s another men’s pattern and I should have made some adjustments but after doing so much to the coat I really couldn’t be bothered and just put it together as it was; I should really have added some length, which is ironic given the amount I had to remove from the coat, and perhaps levelled it off at the front. Consequently it’s not a great fit and sits really awkwardly on Stella as you can see, though that may have something to do with the fact that I put the buttonholes on the wrong side out of habit:

There is a watch on the end of the chain this time, because the pockets are real! I quite like the look of the waistcoat undone when I put it on, but done up not so much. There’s a lot of spare fabric in the front for some reason, which I tried to hide by smoothing it under the collar and then stitching the collar down. It hasn’t entirely worked, and it doesn’t help that the brocade is such a bouncy fabric and doesn’t press well.

Putting it all together I do think it looks better on Stella than me, but that’s probably because I rarely wear so many layers! I wish I had a better backdrop than the bedroom but it’ll have to do:

Maybe I could unbutton the waistcoat and untuck the shirt and be Eight having a casual day? I love the coat but I do feel much more comfortable wearing it over a t-shirt and jeans!

Now I just have to wait until some cooler weather to be able to put it into use. My only gripe is that there are no external pockets, either on the original or the pattern I used! Surely you’d think the Doctor would need pockets?

[ruenii]

Damian: I hate you, I loathe your very existence in my life. Your lack of self-preservation would cost us greatly and you prove yourself useless when you cannot even take care of yourself. It would be most acceptable if you were to just leave and never come back, Drake. You are no longer needed here.

Tim, luggage in hand, who already bought plane tickets cause he's already planned on leaving Gotham: ..Okay, got that, but for the love of god please let go of me, Dami. My flight's in 3 and it's fucking rush hour.

[sukugo]

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHJFSDHGJFHJDSHFJSDHGJSDKASHFJGHKJASDKJSHFHDJHSADJDASKDHDJSHFJSDHFSS *EXPLODES*

[kingofthering]

☼ every rosquez podium » cota 2015 [16/34]

1. Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) 2. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) 3. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha Factory)

[palarien]

Xiao Xingchen is a little tougher than expected...

[sskk-manifesto]

Through all the first time watching the second season I thought the shadows were supposed to represent Lucy, and even now I have an hard time shrugging that impression off

[alinelie]

just him

[highoncatfood]

wszystko musze robic sam w tym jebanym domu anwyay more edited stuff based on theeee sticker set from the upcoming raincode event or sth i saw on twitter. they get shoulder privileges i totally made this for no reason at all

[shannonsketches]

Ganondorf and Nabooru in a heated marital dispute Ganon: You wanna duke it out in the desert? Nabooru: Fuck yeah, I do! *starts biting off her acrylics one by one* Ganon: *scared*

Oh she wouldn't even need to take them off, I trust her palm and knife hand strikes 😂

Look at those upper body forms, her fronthand-backhand will put you straight into next week.

[8bit-mau5]

3/6 traditional art cards done for ko-fi tiers Sugar Cane and The Whole Piñata! The scanner I had available is only good for black & white but I think my camera did pretty well in capturing the finished results too :’3 

Characters: @thesungazer , @theultraoof

Commission info and slots can be found [HERE]! If you enjoy my art, feel free to support your local trans artist by tipping me on kofi 💙

[sapphiccasterism]

they can’t just drop this on us

[millenniummmbop]

The real reason yugi and kaiba barely had any interactions in the anime actually is bc trying to fit them both in the same shot together requires 10 different levels of composition skill and dark magic fuckery

[heich0e]

bringing keigo to dinner to meet your family and he's warm and gregarious and chatty like a talk show host and he hates every single minute of it

[caffeiiine]

did the @originalartblog draw character in your current clothes thing

[ft shibusawa in the stupid 15 min sketch i made of him wearing my clothing i made earlier]

[sevicia]

sleeping over @ my friend's house and we were talking abt music and I said like Oh I discovered this song cause of some Riddler fanart & then about how we both have characters we're crazy abt & I told her like "it's gonna be two years now and my Riddler craze has not left" and she was like "oh I know cause isn't that common for ND people?" and I just said YEAH ^^ but then I realized I've never told her about my POSSIBLE autism diagnosis 😭 ANYWAYS she asked me like "why are you so crazy about him I wanna know!!" and I kept telling her like nonono you see I'm TOO crazy and it'll take a while to tell you everything but she was like I'M ALL EARS !!!! so I started talking and talking and talking and she was falling asleep & I kept having to shake her awake 😭 in the end we only got up to the Riddler arrest scene because it's Literally 4 in the morning RN like I've been talking abt this freak for over an hour ..... also she was like "you're gonna keep talking in the morning 🆗?" and I said OKAY 🩷 YAY 🩷 & then I showed her Riddler Arrest Scene one of the most crucial cinematic moments for me in recent times and she was like "YEAH ok this shit goes crazy" like mhm mhm!!! and then I released her <3

[plainemmanem]

College!steve does the triangle method

LMFAOOOOOO real

like he’s good at flirting but he also is chronically online and definitely knows what the triangle method is and will 100% pull it out when he’s drunk flirting with some girl at a party .