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Just in time for the holidays, I have 3 new 'gold'fish bags available! I cannot guarantee international shipping times but the sooner you order the better chance they have of making it to you by Christmas! Or if you want something smaller, there are 4 minnow pencil cases still available!
You wrote in one post's tags that you have a bunch of unfinished character designs, I love your art so much I'd love to see them
Yeah, I have a bunch of designs for Roxie, Lady Usher, Edgar Usher, The Photographer, The Camera Shop Owner, The Pusher, Dunyazad and Scheherazade. They're all pretty rough, just initial ideas. I didn't have the time to take them any further, but it was fun to be able to consider the show as a whole before focusing in on the two sisters storyline!
I do not have the sketchbook that contains all of that right now, it's at uni, but I do have a video flipping through it! So, apologies for the poor camera quality, these are all screenshots lol.
I tried to be very intentional with all the colours in my design work. There are so many different places and time periods in ghost quartet, a cohesive colour palette felt very important to making them all feel like part of the same world. I had a general colour pallet that covered everything, and then each set of characters played by the same actor had an accent colour that carried across every version of the character; bright red for Rose, olive green for Pearl, dark blue for The Astronomer, and mustard yellow for The Bear.
The Ushers! I originally had Pearl/ Lady Usher's accent colour as white, which is why the green isn't very present in any of her designs. I switched it out after this because the white wasn't distinct enough, especially with how much white was required in Roxie's nightdress design.
I did some collage for the photographer, the camera shop owner and the pusher, just to show off some different techniques. I wanted the pusher to be dressed in a combination of modern stuff and kinda 1870s stuff, the reference him being Roxie's brother.
And Dunyazad and Scheherazade - I struggled getting the colours to look Nice with these. I was looking at a lot of old Persian clothing as references, and they were often very colourful, but it was tricky trying to balance that with the rest of the designs. It was surprisingly simple to combine the 14th(ish) century Persian stuff with 1920s aesthetics though! Quite similar silhouettes!
Also here is the sketchbook video in case anyone is interested in all my mood boards and mind maps n stuff!
Still no fish bag news, but I have now finished uni! These are the things I made! They are The Bear and Rose from my beloved Ghost Quartet
Tumblr recommended your blog to me because of the GQ puppet post. I cannot overstate how blown away I am by those pieces! At first I thought they were smaller handheld puppets which would have already been crazy impressive and beautiful but I cannot believe that they’re people-sized and completely wearable. I cannot stop thinking about a ghost quartet puppet performance now. I used to think any form of adapting the show would be incomplete and unsatisfying but now I think that would be the only perfect option specifically with these pieces. Phenomenal work!
Ha yeah they are both completely wearable, I made them for my costume degree! I actually have a video of the Rose puppet moving that I couldn't fit into the original post:
It was a challenge for sure trying to figure out how to mix the total fluidity of character and setting in Ghost Quartet with more complex costumes. I was actually designing it to be a film, albeit a very artsy, theatre-ey film; That way you can do instantaneous changes in costume (and set) that just aren't possible on stage. I think the original costumes work pretty well for how simple they are, but it is fun getting to give each version of each character their own unique look!
do you maybe plan to make pearl/ the astronomer from ghost quartet as well?
I Might end up making Pearl, it doesn't feel right to have Rose and not Pearl. I don't have as much of a plan to make the astronomer, but who knows. I would love to have the full set, but Rose and the Bear took me a full 6 months of doing basically nothing but work on this project, because I made them for my final year of university. I also made heavy use of various printing, dyeing and embroidery resources at uni for all the textiles, and I'll lose access to all that once I graduate, so making Pearl and the astronomer to the same standard would be tricky!
I do however have finished designs and textiles samples for both of them!
Still no fish bag news, but I have now finished uni! These are the things I made! They are The Bear and Rose from my beloved Ghost Quartet
new follower here, first off your patterns are so so so beautiful and impressive. I will definitely be purchasing a fish bag pattern once I become more confident with my machine (I’ve hand sewn all my life but only occasionally with the machine n I don’t want to butcher a poor fish bag before she can be born). I love the sewing shell storage thingy, it’s so so cool. Do you have any advice for someone who’s trying to get more comfortable with a machine/just starting out, and would you ever consider putting a pattern together for the shell storage? Absolutely zero zero pressure obvi, I hope you and yours are doing well and thank you for the lovely new craft <3
Hi, thanks for your support!
I do intend on putting out a pattern for the snail sewing kit At Some Point! It is slightly more complicated to do than my other patterns, as it was annoying enough to make for me that I did not keep the pattern pieces 😅. I am sure I can recreate it, but I think it will need tweaking a little to make the applique less fiddly. I am also incredibly busy with university right now so I don't have as much time as I'd like to work on fish bag stuff, but I really do want to get back to it after I graduate this summer.
As for advice on getting into machine sewing- I will say that I have not been a beginner for a very long time so I may not be very well equipped, but my instinct is to choose projects that genuinely interest you! That might seem obvious, but I think sometimes people feel like they have to start with the absolute most basic project they can find in the name of beginner friendliness- But those super basic projects can be kinda dull to make, which I think is counterintuitive. This is meant to be fun, so make something fun! There are plenty of fun projects out there that only use the most basic skills, and those skills are things you will pick up very quickly with a bit of practice. Don't be afraid to start ambitious projects, they can always be paused if it's too much at once. Everybody has different thresholds for how much is too much new stuff at once though!
I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)
I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)
I can't remember if I ever posted my fish bag but here she is!!! For the eyes I finally used a pair of tree-bark buttons I had bought a decade prior :) she gets lots of compliments especially at the aquarium.
Oh I love her!!! That's such a pretty colour pallette, I am so into that greeny yellow at the moment! And all the red accents....... Obsessed
I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
Just putting the pattern link higher up in the notes as this is going around again!
YOU HAVE GOLDFISH BAG PATTERN TOO LET'S GOOOOOOO
I'm now in danger of disappearing into the attic with crap fabric and a dream to make one of these bad boys over the course of the next 48 hours
Yess now is the time for Fish! If it does end up happening I'd love to see what you make!
I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)
Just in time for the holidays, I have 3 new 'gold'fish bags available! I cannot guarantee international shipping times but the sooner you order the better chance they have of making it to you by Christmas! Or if you want something smaller, there are 4 minnow pencil cases still available!
Pink and blue one has sold, the other two are still available!
If I were to try and make some bags to sell before Christmas, what would people be interested in? I don't think I'll have time to do big bags, but I could perhaps make a few goldfish this weekend? Or a couple of simplified big fish? Or maybe finally figure out that middle sized fish I've been planning for months?
Hey just a small update, I am Still super busy with university so I can't say when there'll next be bags listed in the shop (although there are 5 pencil cases currently available!) BUT it is much easier to fit in commissions so if you want a bag before next summer that is the way to go! They are basically the same price as the premade bags and fully customisable! Slots are limited but usually open, so send me a message or purchase through Kofi!
I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)
I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)
My scrap fabric pile yearns to become a fish
It is a great scrap fabric project!
