#sewing challenge

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Isis Avis Loren - Muriel's Bedding Wedding Runway

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Doll/Craft Resolution, Part 9/12 (Hopefully): September 2022

So, my ‘resolution list’ for this year included making at least one doll outfit each month, focusing on rounding out my historical girl’s collections so that ALL of my dolls would at least be closer to having the 6 outfits I’d planned for them. (Though, admittedly, not all of the outfits will be historical outfits. Quite a few ‘collections’ will be a blend of modern outfits and historical ones, and some will lean more one way than another.)

So, next up is Kit, showing off her new Robin Hood costume—hers at long last, (after months of promising I would make it)!

The pattern is Doll Tag Clothing’s Sherwood Tales pattern, which includes patterns for the tunic, pants, belt, armguards, cowl and hat, and I had mocked up some boot-cover patterns last year for Tatiana’s Towns Guy costume. The tunic took the longest, but everything after that actually went pretty quickly, then it was off to the park for some fitting backdrops.!

But enough talking, here’s Kit showing off her new outfit:

Also this year, along with 1 doll outfit each month, I’m trying to make enough crochet projects to (hopefully) sell at a craft fair or some such towards late fall. I’ve decided to make 2 dragons and 18 ‘wizard’ candles a month just to start feeling things out. Here are garnet and Spark, along with their matching candles!

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challenge for anyone who likes sewing

design a plushie you can make with the materials you have with you right now. no buying new things.

(you dont have to. its just fun.)

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Sewing Journal #8: Making the Rosa Dress by Rosery Apparel

One of my favorite sewing sources is Rosery Apparel. I have been watching her calming videos for some time now, and she got me into creating more dresses. Rosery Apparel is owned by Janelle, who is based in Australia and Japan. She has a YouTube channel where she documents her projects and posts tutorials for her sewing patterns. Her patterns are available at roseryapparel.com. The very first…

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a new part of my marx cosplay!

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It is he! I decided the world needed a cross stitch of Big Challenges, the icon of our time. So I designed one. Happy to send pattern to people if they too want an icon!

Pattern posted here!

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Total Drama Psycho Noah AU, after the 'London Adventure' and the truth being revealed, Chris then decides to make this a reward challenge... The reward is that EVERYONE gets to be in First Class, with NOAH... Chris and Noah are curious to see, who will be brave enough to actually enter First Class, after learning about Noah's insanity... How would Courtney + Gwen + Duncan reacts to seeing the video of Noah's insane side showing? 😈 Would Alejandro and Noah still be friends? 😈

Listen, as much as this idea is so fucking funny to me, I really don't think it'd work from a storytelling perspective.

Though (not to push any agendas here, but-) if Chris were to hypothetically have the remaining contestants go against Noah in an enclosed space, in a sort of predator-vs-prey scenario, it'd probably play out something like The Beast chapter in Slay The Princess... without the "eating them alive" aspect, of course.

(Heavy Content Warning for that link, by the way. There's a lot of violence/gore/body horror, among other stuff, by virtue of it being a horror game.)

Maybe he'd lock everyone in the First Class cabin and turn off all of the room's electronics, so the only source of light in the cabin would be the wavering moonlight from whatever tiny windows are dotted around. Noah would use the cover of darkness to his advantage and toy with his competitors in a similar vein to how the Ripper had in their challenge that day, darting silently through the shadows to 'capture' his castmates, picking them off one by one.

It'd be a fun game of cat-and-mouse for Noah. For the others? It'd be a living nightmare. They wouldn't have the luxury of knowing that Noah wouldn't really hurt them, and the bloodlust they'd seen on that screen would be terrifying to watch but downright petrifying to experience first hand. They would be genuinely fearing for their lives, in a way that Chris hadn't been able to prompt since the early days of Island, and the host would love it.

Not that he would do that. And not that Noah would actually attack anyone either. (Without reason to, of course.)

But you are right about one thing; if this AU were to become a fully-fledged story, the London challenge would have to be a reward, just to keep Noah in the competition. Because he literally snapped Zeke's arms like chopsticks- his team would vote him out in a heartbeat just by virtue of him being so dangerous.

Which means the whole of Team Chris (plus Duncan) would be sharing a poorly-lit, structurally unsound cabin with someone they're terrified of.

...Owen notwithstanding, since Owen's a sweetheart and he knows Noah.

But the others would be immediately on guard around him. Noah, knowing there's no reason to keep up his ruse of sarcastic apathy, would probably relish in their fear- he enjoys tormenting people, after all, especially when that torment is purely psychological. So he'd carry on playing the 'unhinged, bloodthirsty sociopath' just to watch the others squirm.

He'd probably make a huge show of still having the Ripper's knife, tucked safely in the sleeve of his white undershirt, and comment that he and Duncan could be 'knife buddies' or something. If only to see how the punk's pierced face would drain of all colour at the prospect of Noah having a sharp object. (Duncan would absently rub at the puncture scars on his hand, to Noah's delight.)

But it'd eventually get boring, I imagine, so Noah would do something to reassure his teammates that he's not some ethics-devoid monster hellbent on destruction. Because having your teammates be in a state of constant paranoia around you would get annoying after a while, and it'd impact their performance in the competition (which Noah isn't really all that concerned with, but Owen is, so Noah doesn't want to do anything to jeopardise their chances of winning challenges).

So he'd drop the exaggeration of his more violent traits, and intentionally show off the unharmful aspects of himself- namely by koala-clinging to Owen and acting 'normally' like they'd done before the London challenge, and/or by approaching Tyler to ask how he was feeling after being stretched on the rack and sheepishly apologise for leaving him behind (showing empathy and remorse, to humanise himself n front of his teammates).

He's insane, not heartless.

As for Alejandro...? I have no idea. Would he even want to risk approaching Noah to find out if their shared comradery was all a ruse? Would whatever tentative trust he had in Noah be completely shattered by the reveal? Or would he be so engulfed by his need to win the competition that he only views this new development as a boon, since now Noah can be more of a physical asset for their team?

It'd probably be a mix of all of these. Alejandro would be left off-footed by the reveal of p!Noah's 'true self' (however much of his 'true self' he's willing to show to others) but I imagine he'd be quick to ally himself with the guy who can break bones like they're chalk and deceive a whole cast of people for two and a half seasons, regardless of any personal misgivings.

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mlp g3 art challenge day 2: sew-and-so!

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"Nine women can't make a baby in a month!" - Taliesin Jaffe

Jester's Eiselcross stockings, handknit by me! @ionarts_cosplay on Instagram

Jester commissioned these stockings in Rexxentrum over (I think) a single day. Taliesin's joke always stuck with me because there's really no way to speed up knitting - these took me two months to design a pattern and knit. The opportunity to attend the Echoes of the Solstice live show inspired me to knit the stockings, and knitting them inspired me to take on the rest of this challenging cosplay! Who knew painting yourself blue could be so fun?

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Shiny ponyta plushie I just finished! Used the nightmare pattern by HouseOfBeasts on etsy, whose shop I highly recommend.

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Jaida Essence Hall - Girlgroup, Improv, Makeover, Ball & Sewing Challenge winner

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2022 Outfit Challenge Recap!

So, my challenge to myself this year included making 1 doll outfit a month, or 12 in 2022, helping to round out most of my historical girls’ collections to a nice round 6. (Most. Kirsten and Nanea still need 1 each). That meant most of those dolls got more than 1 outfit this year, so they’ve pulled in some of their friends to help them show them off!

First off are the stand-alone pair: With Josefina getting 1 outfit, inspired both by a long-sleeve camisa form her illustrations and a version of her weaving outfit, and newcomer and modern doll Jason Turnley showing off his costume for The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood.

Following up next is a pair of pairs: Kaya got two modern looks: a t-shirt, black pants and denim jacket set, and another with a tank top, button up, and jeans, and Alex was happy to model with her. Kirsten also got two outfits this year, but they were based on ones from her books/collection: I finally made her night gown to finish up her St. Lucia’s day outfit, and I also made her red dress from her school story—still need to make a shawl for it, but Holly looks cute in it anyway!

Finally, two groups of three—Kit got her Overalls and hat from Kit Saves the Day, but I also made her a Robin Hood costume of her very own, worn here by Tatiana, while Lee shows off my take on Catherine Plummer’s costume from the stage musical Newsies, another plucky young reporter writing about the change she wants to see in the world.

Finally, Miss Elizabeth Cole got a new elegant modern party dress, and two Disney inspired get ups: a Tinkerbell costume, which Maddie has given a try, and an outfit inspired by illustrations of Cinderella in a modern style, which looks so cute on Nanea, too!

Putting them altogether, it’s kinda fun to see how much I got done, even in a year that felt like a lot of my life was in a holding pattern. I’m excited to see what 2023 brings!

Also, I’ve been working on making crochet dragons and candles to sell eventually—when I started, I was half-convinced I’d never be able to sell any, but two of my dragons couldn’t be pictured here, because they sold already! Hoping to make a few more dragons to better fill a booth, but now I’m more confident—and have a lot more practice, having made 24 dragon and 216 candles (2 dragons and 18 candles a month)!

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I’m thinking about giving out little monsters to the neighbor kids for Halloween, so I tested out some patterns* and I think it might work! The monster on the left (with the separate arms and legs) took about 30 minutes to make, and the one on the right took about 20 (though nearly five of those minutes were spent looking for my box of noses lol)

*pattern is a strong word; I basically freehand drew some shapes on a doubled over piece of fabric, sewed it, cut it out, and finished off the plushie from there

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Sewing Journal #7: Sitka Short Sleeve Shirt by Sirena Patterns

After finally coming up with over a dozen wearable pieces using simple panels and directions, I decided to tackle my very first collared shirt. As many do when faced with a difficult task, I totally procrastinated attempting to make a collared shirt because I perceived it to be so complicated, taxing, and I was sure my end result would be a complete disaster on the first try… But…, everyone…

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day 22: hamada from ookiku furikabutte

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I thought that these inner sections of a pomelo peel thing kind of looked like flower petals with their coloring, so I left them out to dry for a few days, and then glued some of them together to make little "flowers" to hang in my window.