StarsAndSewing

Side blog of https://www.tumblr.com/blog/starsandaces24

[starsandsewing]

This is my side blog, I don't want to annoy anyone on my other blog with my sewing projects. I like vintage clothing and fun fabrics.

Find my main blog here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/starsandaces24

[starsandsewing]

Entering a new subproject within the project, aka making wings

It works, but the prototype of the wing hinge mechanism needs some work

[starsandsewing]

My summer job doesn't start until June, so guess who's decided to start on a new project!

Listen, Erin from Aurora is very cool and I had some Ideas

[starsandaces24]

Does his shirt collar have anything on it? no. but if I do black on black, it could be there. hypothetically. And if it's black on black, that'll be really easy to take a picture of... nvm

[starsandsewing]

This one isn't subtle, but I had the gold thread and also who cares? this is literally an old sheet, I don't think the embroidery is what's going to make or break it.

and I like it

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Attached the collar to the shirt! It's all coming together.

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one of the cuffs is coming along. The void dragon/magic is a combination of rounded lines and sharp edges, which are suuuuper fun to make. I like the dragon a little less now. Considering adding purple highlights to the blobs for extra accuracy, but it would break up the black on black. It's some of the first embroidery I've done, but I think it's pretty good

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I've finally gotten time to sit down and make the cape, and it's so good! except for the button, it's done! and the paint is drying on the button. I do need to wash it because the only place to do it was on the floor and a lot of pieces of thread got stuck to it.

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Vest done!! having a sewing machine makes this so much easier tbh. the vest was hard to translate because the seam goes straight down the middle and most vests don't do that, but I think what I ended up with was decent

[starsandsewing]

My summer job doesn't start until June, so guess who's decided to start on a new project!

Listen, Erin from Aurora is very cool and I had some Ideas

[starsandaces24]

Does his shirt collar have anything on it? no. but if I do black on black, it could be there. hypothetically. And if it's black on black, that'll be really easy to take a picture of... nvm

[starsandsewing]

This one isn't subtle, but I had the gold thread and also who cares? this is literally an old sheet, I don't think the embroidery is what's going to make or break it.

and I like it

[starsandsewing]

Attached the collar to the shirt! It's all coming together.

[starsandsewing]

one of the cuffs is coming along. The void dragon/magic is a combination of rounded lines and sharp edges, which are suuuuper fun to make. I like the dragon a little less now. Considering adding purple highlights to the blobs for extra accuracy, but it would break up the black on black. It's some of the first embroidery I've done, but I think it's pretty good

[starsandsewing]

I've finally gotten time to sit down and make the cape, and it's so good! except for the button, it's done! and the paint is drying on the button. I do need to wash it because the only place to do it was on the floor and a lot of pieces of thread got stuck to it.

[starsandsewing]

Finished the outlines (at the library) and needed to take a picture when I found the actual book.

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In a different library, and I finished the satin stitching and the purple detailing, and it honestly looks pretty good. It is also entirely a noncanonical detail.

[starsandsewing]

Finished the outlines (at the library) and needed to take a picture when I found the actual book.

[starsandsewing]

My summer job doesn't start until June, so guess who's decided to start on a new project!

Listen, Erin from Aurora is very cool and I had some Ideas

[starsandaces24]

Does his shirt collar have anything on it? no. but if I do black on black, it could be there. hypothetically. And if it's black on black, that'll be really easy to take a picture of... nvm

[starsandsewing]

This one isn't subtle, but I had the gold thread and also who cares? this is literally an old sheet, I don't think the embroidery is what's going to make or break it.

and I like it

[starsandsewing]

Attached the collar to the shirt! It's all coming together.

[starsandsewing]

one of the cuffs is coming along. The void dragon/magic is a combination of rounded lines and sharp edges, which are suuuuper fun to make. I like the dragon a little less now. Considering adding purple highlights to the blobs for extra accuracy, but it would break up the black on black. It's some of the first embroidery I've done, but I think it's pretty good

[starsandsewing]

My summer job doesn't start until June, so guess who's decided to start on a new project!

Listen, Erin from Aurora is very cool and I had some Ideas

[starsandaces24]

Does his shirt collar have anything on it? no. but if I do black on black, it could be there. hypothetically. And if it's black on black, that'll be really easy to take a picture of... nvm

[starsandsewing]

This one isn't subtle, but I had the gold thread and also who cares? this is literally an old sheet, I don't think the embroidery is what's going to make or break it.

and I like it

[starsandsewing]

Attached the collar to the shirt! It's all coming together.

[starsandsewing]

My summer job doesn't start until June, so guess who's decided to start on a new project!

Listen, Erin from Aurora is very cool and I had some Ideas

[starsandaces24]

Does his shirt collar have anything on it? no. but if I do black on black, it could be there. hypothetically. And if it's black on black, that'll be really easy to take a picture of... nvm

[starsandsewing]

This one isn't subtle, but I had the gold thread and also who cares? this is literally an old sheet, I don't think the embroidery is what's going to make or break it.

and I like it

[starsandsewing]

My summer job doesn't start until June, so guess who's decided to start on a new project!

Listen, Erin from Aurora is very cool and I had some Ideas

[starsandaces24]

Does his shirt collar have anything on it? no. but if I do black on black, it could be there. hypothetically. And if it's black on black, that'll be really easy to take a picture of... nvm

[starsandsewing]

My summer job doesn't start until June, so guess who's decided to start on a new project!

Listen, Erin from Aurora is very cool and I had some Ideas

[starsandsewing]

no, no, it's fiiiiine that the person I dislike most at this school is the director. She's not a know-it-all who likes lording that knowledge over people's heads at all. And she isn't casually the most sanctimonious person I know. It's fine

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You've got to love it when you get yelled at for not scheduling costume fittings... and then one of the managers doesn't show up to their fitting.

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Guess who used 70% of their costuming budget last show, so they have basically nothing left after the more complicated and necessary costume pieces are purchased?

[starsandsewing]

guess who volunteered to costume the entire play. And it's Trail to Oregon, so that's fun.

[oreramar]

Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.

The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.

The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.

I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.

I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.

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"I want to keep my glasses because I don't want to get an eye infection or keep buying contacts, and the problems with glasses don't bother me as much as they bother other people": What I say

"I want glasses because I'm not at all careful with knitting needles, and every time they bounce off my glasses, I'm grateful": The thing I want to say