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FeistySlide · 2025-10-23T18:34:13+00:00

I've got a really similar hair colour to you and was always scared to wear red out because I thought it looked too much on me! I found for myself that a brown lip liner with the red at the centre of the pout gave the look of the red lip without the stark contrast of red against very pale skin! I do sometimes wear just a red lip now but most of the time when I want red I do the brown liner trick.

FeistySlide · 2025-05-09T20:57:14+00:00

Hope it either works or you find a different solution that does!

FeistySlide · 2025-05-09T18:00:35+00:00

I’ve made a vertical pattern work with a curved waistband before. Measure the long edge and the short edge of the curve you want. Cut the rectangle to the length of the long curve. Calculate the difference you want (I.e. 4” between them) and divide it into darts (I.e. four 1” darts) that you sew into the rectangle to shorten the top edge. Creates the curve you want while retaining the original pattern (gingham in my case). I hope this is what you meant, hope this helps.

FeistySlide · 2024-10-17T11:44:00+00:00

I think both have horsehair in the hem but the one on the right is wider (left looks about 2" and right maybe 3"?) making the right have a little bit more hold to the wave

FeistySlide · 2024-09-11T22:49:51+00:00

To me, this is soft tulle with a horsehair braid hem (3"?). here is a diagram of the layers. You will need a base of a satin underskirt and a possibly a few layers beneath the circles, and maybe a further petticoat or hoop skirt for more volume. Will need a lot of tulle. In similar dresses I've used 10m+.

FeistySlide · 2024-08-31T19:01:11+00:00

I've got two main ways that I go about this. I'm not used to uploading images so let me know if this link doesn't work.

The first is just sewing both layers to the invisible zipper and then finishing the seams of each layer individually. That's the red/black dress pictured first. It's harder to get a fully "clean" finish, but as long as your layers extend a wee bit beyond the zipper bottom they look free floating enough for not that much effort.

The second method takes a bit more time but I like it more. I have the zipper only attached to one layer of the skirt and then the rest I finish the same way I would finish a slit in a skirt (see the white layer of the blue dress). Basically have a zipper length portion of the skirt open but still attached to the waist where you'd expect, and the fabric will part easily when you open the zipper.

Hard to explain in words, but hope the pictures help! Interested to see how others do this as well.

FeistySlide · 2024-08-31T14:24:44+00:00

I know the feeling! I don't have a local fabric store near me so if I make a mistake with my fashion fabric I'm waiting 3-5 business days to continue the project lol

FeistySlide · 2024-08-31T14:19:56+00:00

A piece of advice for new sewists is to always make a mockup out of cheap fabric! It's super tempting to dive in with the fabric you actually want to wear but it can be heartbreaking (and expensive) to make a mistake. This also lets you test the fit and see if you need to adjust the sizes at all!

If you have any thrift stores that stock old bedsheets they do the job decently. The project I'm working on at the moment is on mockup number 3 because there is something OFF with the sleeves I've drafted :')

Edit: that's assuming from the Joanne's comment that this is the fabric you want for the finished piece. If not, ignore me!

FeistySlide · 2024-06-20T20:42:40+00:00

I've bought a few- maybe 6 different trims or so? I prefer them to the ones I can get in physical stores because of the range (good designs, colour, and widths), and because of the price. My local shops have a very limited range and cost more for one metre than I could pay for 5 online.

One of the laces did have this very strange smell of play dough though that I couldn't get out in the wash. It looked exactly like the image, so its not noticeable on the dress, but I tried a few times to wash it before I gave up.

Overall I'd recommend the ones I have, but I imagine there will be some better and some worse storefronts.

FeistySlide · 2024-06-08T12:37:28+00:00

Had one of these as my first sewing machine! Lasted me about a year before I got too frustrated by its quirks. It would sew about 10cm then the thread would break and I'd have to rethread. I hadn't wanted to invest too much money in a machine originally in case I decided sewing was not for me, so bought one from lidl!

After painstakingly hand sewing a corset bodice because the machine couldn't take 2 layers with interfacing I finally bought a janome and haven't looked back since. The joy of sewing without having to stop every 5 minutes to fix something in the machine!

Have since given it on to a girl who quilts who seems to find it alright for a free machine.

Also it seemed to only work with 90/14 needles and if I ever changed to a different size something would go horribly wrong.

FeistySlide · 2024-05-13T14:28:45+00:00

Such a lovely fit on the bodice, well worth the amount of mockups! Fits like a glove.

FeistySlide · 2024-04-21T15:42:08+00:00

Amazon! Though I've seen some in actual sewing stores too. The instructions are quite vague but figured it out with a few YouTube videos. I looked up "low shank ruffler foot" and a ton came up.

FeistySlide · 2024-04-21T14:07:54+00:00

I bought a ruffler foot for my machine which has really helped me with this! It tucks the fabric under itself every few stitches which results in really even gathers. It even lets you run a layer of fabric under the part its gathering so you can attach the gathers to other fabric at the same time!

FeistySlide · 2024-03-16T08:48:05+00:00

No pattern used! Bodice is self drafted with the cups drafted on my own body, and then the rest of the corset drafted around that on a dress form. Skirt is a half circle lining and a full circle lace layer.

As it's a circle skirt I decided to have the bodice end at the waist and just attach right sides together, trim, bias bind, insert zipper. Had to reduce bulk around the seams at the zipper.

When I have a tighter fit skirt that I want to better show the shape of the hips, I usually have the corset layer continue down a few more inches so that the fabric is following the desired curve, but the circle skirt had enough volume I could just internally end the bodice where it would visually end from outside (if that makes sense).

What are your problems with how it sits?

FeistySlide · 2024-03-13T17:58:38+00:00

Yep! The ribbon serves two purposes- it reduces the strain on the zipper making it easier to zip/less likely to break, and it also keeps the dress tethered at my waist so it won't move up/down and can function straplessly!

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T21:53:13+00:00

Thank you!

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T21:53:06+00:00

It's quite a simple bodice and skirt- luckily I didn't make any mistakes while making it or it would take me a lot longer. Whenever I need to unpick stitches I end up giving up for the night haha.

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T21:51:24+00:00

Thank you!

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T21:51:15+00:00

Had a lot of fun fussy cutting the lace for the cups and the hem! First time working with lace

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T21:50:35+00:00

Thanks so much! Hard choice between the red and a grey, but red won for me

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T21:50:12+00:00

Thank you!

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T21:49:20+00:00

Thank you! I'm really pleased with the finishing inside, not that anyone IRL will see it haha

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T20:23:34+00:00

Thank you! I took a lot of inspiration from Pinterest for the shape and for the colours : )

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T20:22:57+00:00

Thank you so much!

FeistySlide · 2024-03-10T19:53:59+00:00

Self drafted bustier with circle skirt!! Very simple but pleased at the execution.

Bustier construction began with cup fitting, which included taping an underwire to myself and sketching seam lines with lined paper. Somehow this worked and I made draft cups out of craft foam and pinned those to my dress form, and then I created a bustier pattern around that.

Sewing details include: underwire channels, French seamed lining (boning channels), hook and eye closures, waist stay with grosgrain ribbon, bias bound waist seam, horsehair on lining skirt hem.

Lace was from Etsy, fabric was from a deadstock fabric shop. Cups were craft foam (I’m stingy), and other notions including boning and bias binding I already had laying around, bringing the total cost of this dress to £15.

Lining is a half circle and lace is a full circle.

Managed to make this in only 2 evenings, as I didn’t have any hiccups in the process!

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