After the bodice was all pinned up it was time to add the skirt. I bought 1.5 meters of “Lila” crepe in a nice bright teal colour for $24/m -70%, so it came out to $10.80. The inside is nicely textured with the outside being ultra textured. It gives the skirt a nice flowyness as well as a lot of character when you look at it up close.
Yesterday I was worried that the black overhanging the gold fabric would be a problem, and it turns out it was. A huge problem. Not only did it make the band in the front lopsided and puckered…
…but the back was horrible when I put in the zipper!
Talk about fugly! At least this part will be covered with the vest. And maybe the appliques, which I am currently experimenting with right now, will distract from the imperfections up top.
For the appliques I bought a package of HeatnBond Lite. I stuck two petals of the sunflowers that will eventually adorn the bottom of the skirt to a swatch of the teal fabric and lo and behold it stuck perfectly! I was pretty happy about that.
Angel Lea Designs has a wonderful tutorial on how to properly do appliques, and I figured I’d try her method of machine sewing them on around the edges. It didn’t turn out well, so I am going to attempt a “cosplay hack” I found on Pinterest (which was taken from Tumblr which was taken from Facebook) that involves puffy paint. Basically you do up and stick on the applique, then rim it in puffy paint. Once that dries you hand-embroider over it with embroidery thread to create a three dimensional applique…or at least the edges. We’ll see how it turns out. I’m currently waiting for the white puffy paint to dry, but I think since I have a little extra room on the prepared applique I might try hand-embroidering without the puffy paint just to see how it goes.
That’s it for now. Until next time! xoxo
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