The star outfits are now complete 💙⭐️🩷
I love how these turned out! Anastacia looks so good :D
84 notes
·
View notes
Work in progress! I'll post a full PDF once I have the directions completed. Attaching a critter hood to a critter shirt is weird and complicated.
13 notes
·
View notes
the steampunk acorn house is being made ready for the new tenants
eeeee! so gaudy! ,,,before the renovation… (not my picture)
191 notes
·
View notes
I've been really cryptic about this until now but now it's done I can finally show this off.
LOOK AT HER. ISN'T SHE SO PRETTY?!?!?!
LOOK AT THOSE CLOTHES. I MADE THOSE! AREN'T THEY COOL!?
sorry sorry I'm chill I swear.
So earlier this month I went to a collector's market. Most of it's old stuff like jewellery and glassware and clothes, but some stalls sell toys. My friend has a Monster High doll collection, and I've made it my mission to get as many dolls into their hands as possible (so far 2/3 of the dolls come from me, so I'm doing pretty well). So when I went to this collector's market I kept my eye out for dolls.
Here are the ones I found. Sad, neglected, lonely. I was debating not picking either up cause I thought the clothes looked kinda lame. But I love my friend, and Spectra's pretty cool, so I bought the one on the right.
And then it turned out the clothes didn't even belong to her.
I don't know who they belong to. I thought my might've been Cleo's but apparently they're not. So I thought "well I can't just give this doll to them like this" (Never mind that I totally could, they mentioned buying a clothes pack and they're incredibly grateful for any doll I give them but like, I have standards, and this doesn't meet them).
So I decided I might as well make her some clothes. I mean, Spectra's a ghost, my friend's really into goth fashion, I had this skull fabric that I already wanted to make a skirt out of, might as well.
And I'm so glad I did, I'm so proud of this, it looks so cool I can't wait for them to see it.
At Christmas. It's a surprise.
Please don't tell them about this.
And if you are my friend, and you came back to tumblr for some reason and read this before I could delete it-
Well, damnit.
78 notes
·
View notes
Cubao’s latest suit is here, just in time to celebrate Gong Jun’s 31st birthday!
The newest suit is inspired by latest collaboration between Jason Wu and Shu embroidery master Kang Ning. Gong Jun wore this suit to the recent Vogue Forces of Fashion event, where all three of them participated in a panel together.
The latest bao suit is fit for 20 cm Cubao, as opposed to the 15 cm Xiao Cubao I normally make for. Because I previously worked with a smaller size, the first step was to size up the patterns. I used the base pants and shirt pattern resized to 117% scale then made mock ups (I got lucky on the size selection and didn’t have to do too much trial and error). Then I sized up the previous pattern used for the Cannes suit (thank you, Jason, for using similar styles) and made another mock up to check the fit.
White sateen serves as the base fabric. This version of sateen is slightly thinner than the one used for the Elie Saab cape and what I am used to, but it was what I had on hand. After the pattern pieces were marked out, I used red pencil lead to trace out the patterns. Kang Ning said she used 10 different colors of silk thread to create the original embroidery; due to my limited real estate and short time frame, I used two colors of cotton embroidery floss. The stitches are mostly short stitches and rather haphazardly placed; the goal was to give a fur like appearance as everyone initially thought the pattern was fur so I wanted to try and replicate that (I hope I did).
Overall embroidery took about 12-14 hours over two days.
Details also include a signature embroidery on the back. I am not sure if this is both Kang Ning’s and Jason’s signature, or just one of them. It is a little detail, but one I really liked and did not want to leave out. The bao version is 1 inch x 1 inch.
Overall, this suit took 5 days to make. Gong Jun’s appearance was on Nov. 23 and the suit was completed on Nov. 27, just in time to post for his birthday.
And thus Cubao(s) now have had 5 custom suits made (in the last 6 months!). We are looking forward to seeing what will appear next.
5 notes
·
View notes