Once Upon a Fiber

LabbyDragon's craft and art blog.

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A tutorial on making a canvas key hanger with a perler bead accent.

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A tutorial on making a canvas key hanger with a perler bead accent.

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Part 3 of the Big Fat Pastie Tutorial brings this series to a soft end.  I want to do more tips and tricks videos in the future, but this 3 (4) part series covers all the basics you need to get started making pasties for burlesque, festival, or private use.

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Part 2 of my Pastie Tutorial covers making and adding tassels as well as glitter edges.

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I’ve started a multi part tutorial on how to make pasties for burlesque, festival, or private use.  Part 0 covers materials you might need or want throughout the course.

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Posting this here as well:

I’ve done a video on how to make a DIY table top ironing board.  It’s a no-sew project!

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Forgot to link this here when I put it up- a video tutorial on how to paint a mermaid wash tape dispenser.

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So I just finished up painting this little beauty.  I filmed a little tutorial that I’ll be editing and uploading hopefully quite soon.

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Rehearsed with the LED fans I made.

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Wanna know what I’ve been up to? This pain in the ass project. I’ll make LED lighted feather fans, I said. It’ll be easy, I said. Nope.

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Spending the day sitting on the couch with my cat and cross stitching some Slime Rancher Slimes.

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I made a plushie chick Peep. Yay!

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……do I want to know why?

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Can…can I buy one?

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Hell yes. Visit me at Labby's Crafts and Greekery on Etsy or pm me here on tumblr and I will hook you up.

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I made a plushie chick Peep. Yay!

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Photos taken by the wonderful Fisher Fotography .

So I made this hot mess of a costume for the Breakaway Burlesque holiday show.  The act is to “Settle For Me” from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season One.

Let me tell you, I thought I was a master seamstress and that metalic dot fabric would be no trouble for me- but it was the biggest pain in my butt.  I had to make sure I put interfacing on both sides of pretty much everything, and I sewed so damn slow to avoid stitch skipping.  It took me so long to get this done I ended up running really behind (that’s what I get for overestimating myself) hence why the bra ended up really under embellished.

However, I ended up LOVING this act (I get to use my baton! Not pictured likely because it caused blurred shots) so I will be giving it plenty of upgrades.

The vest isn’t quite how I originally imagined it, but it’s pretty good- and I wouldn’t try to make a new one because gawd I do not want to go through that again.  

The shorts were also originally supposed to be the silver/white, but I didn’t have enough of it and did have just enough blue.  I ended up just cutting off a legging pattern to make them as I didn’t have a shorts pattern that was the look I wanted.  It needs a waist band, but there came a point where I went “That’s workable” and just moved on because there was more to be done.

The color scheme is directly thanks to me finding those shoes on Amazon and deciding I HAD to own them- and that using them in an act would “justify” the purchase.

It’s so sparkly though!

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Trying to finish up my December costume in a time crunch. The skirt is not part of it.

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That feel when you have to finish a costume, but you want to sew plushies instead.

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I think our photographer captured the exact moment I accepted that I would be chewing bread for my entire act, lol. 

This is one of my few costumes with almost zero items not made by me- the cups came off a store bought bra, but I had to dye them and I gave them an entirely new structure.  Other than that, every piece of this Aladdin costume was made by me (including the not featured underworks.)

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Have I ever told you what a good costumer you are?  Because if not you’re a fucking great costumer.

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Haha, thanks. I have really only been costuming for 3 years. I still have so much to learn!