I had identified two main sources for the problem with keeping the dress where it was supposed to be: the fabric’s tendency to relax, and lack of a support structure. The first thing I did was add a stay-tape, something I first ran into in corsetry: inch-wide twill tape, in this case fitted snugly right under the […]
Read MoreJust recently I bumped into a huge weakness of the mock-up: you do not wear them all day. If you sew garments, at some point or another you will come across the advice to always make a mock-up. Also called a muslin, calico, or toile, it’s a test version of the garment that lets you fine tune […]
Read MoreThere is something just a little bit insane about cosplay¹. We—the fans—look at something that usually exists only in a 2D world and decide “I am going to replicate that. In my spare time. On a budget. And I am going to make it awesome.” Crazy, right? Add to that the fact that many of us—probably most […]
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