Made some Komono Shirts for Niva, still working on the pattern, haven’t got it quite right but this one is really close. She is a great model. Tie slips through hole inside then ties in back to the tie from the front piece. 3/4 sleeves great to keep her just a bit warmer without getting in her way.  Works great for mobility.

I wanted to try my hand at making a dress from a sketch and so I offered to make my cousin’s wedding dress. It started off with us sketching back and forth about different ideas and we settled on this one. Then I found a pattern that matched the body as close as possible and then just kind of made up the rest. I think it turned out great, with only a minor glitch with a sleeve that I never was able to fix. The dress was actually three layers, two cotton and a crinkled rayon. I ended up taking in large seams from the waist to the thigh to make the dress kind of flare out a bit at the bottom. We were going for something light, no fluffy skirts!, but elegant. For the back we went for the look of the buttons, without all the hassle, so there is a zipper behind them and some hooks to keep the buttons over the zipper. To put the buttons on speedily I glued them into place and then stitched them on so they were all evenly spaced. Amazingly I did not get so mad as to almost burn the dress, which shocked me because I thought for sure I would be sick of it at the end. The part that gave me the biggest worry was when I cut the dress for the big swooping layer of fabric because if it didn’t work then i would have just cut the dress in half literally for nothing. Oh and the edge of the swooping layer was burned with a wood burner to seal it and keep it from fraying rather then weigh it down with a hem. So I had a good time and the bride was happy too!