So, I’m really in need of money right now (starting a new job finally but having trouble paying my rent ahah…)
So I’ve decided to give a try at commissions !
I found those really cute japanese fabrics today, and thought that maybe I could try taking 2 or 3 commissions of handmade/handsewed items :D
I really like doing this, it’s so peacefull and I love small details and sewing small objects ahah
So! idk if anyone would be interested in this….it’d be a big help to me, first on the money side, but also on the “professional” side of it, ‘cause I’ve never taken sewing commissions before and I really wanna start doing some ! So it’d be a really nice way to start doing it =D (I already did a handfull of wallets, phones / Ipad cases for friends and family, so, not ENTIRELY new to it e.e)
For the price, it’s to be decided with the item chosen, but I’d say it would be around 10€ max?
Like:
small wallet/Subway card case : 5€
pencil case/phone case: 10€
Ipad case/reading tablet: 15€(also it’d be special orders, cause I would need to go buy larger pieces of fabric for those ^^)
Of course I’d be shipping them worldwide (sended from Paris, France)
So that is it…if anyone is interested, please pm me _o/
Lucie now has that most basic unit of Victorian lady’s clothing: a chemise. I was a bit disappointed with the design- I used a pattern from a Suasn Sirkis wish booklet (1870-75) and even without the insertion lace which I left off because I’m out of miniature-scale lace right now, it looks more like a 1970s babydoll nightgown than any 1870s chemise I’ve ever seen
also. warn a girl that your patterns don’t include seam allowances, okay? please?
because it’s so simple, I embroidered a tiny L on the front for a bit of ornamentation. this is actually the best embroidery I’ve ever done, which tells you something about the dismal state of my embroidery skills
anyway. stay tuned for the endless thrill of…drawers! [thunder, lightning, dramatic music]
Front lacing stays and busk of pink watered silk, lined with linen and fully boned. All the outside edges of the stays are bound with pink silk grosgrain ribbon. The sleeves are made separately and laced into the armholes with pink silk ribbons and points of tinned iron. There is a band of back-stitched embroidery at the neckline and armholes and a line of couched thread at the waist. The separate busk is boned vertically and horizontally, at the top, and completely bound with pink silk grosgrain ribbon.
[Stays] These front lacing pink silk stays have a high back cutting across the top of the shoulders, with a decolletage and a long pointed waist in front. Below the waist there are 11 boned tabs with silk gussets between them. The stays consist of three shaped pieces on each front, two side back pieces and two centre back pieces. The shoulder straps, each with an eyelet, extend from the back and attach with a ribbon through an eyelet on the front. The sleeves are wide and cut straight, extending to below the elbow. They attach to the corset with three ribbons each through thread eyelets. Four ribbons decorate the centre back tab. The stays are backed with linen and stitched with pink silk thread to make compartments of 4 to 5 mm width for the whalebone. Above the boning at the front, the fabric is reinforced with decorative stitching. The seams are reinforced with cross stitch and covered on the right side with pink silk grosgrain ribbon. The upper and lower edges of the stays are edged with pink silk grosgrain ribbon, as is the armhole. At the lower edge, there is a pink and green silk grosgrain ribbon underneath the pink one. The sleeves are lined with pink silk taffeta. The thread eyelets are made with buttonhole stitch. The ribbons are made of pink silk taffeta and retain their original tinned iron points.
[Busk] The pink silk busk is in the form of a curved ’T’, edged with pink ribbon. It is made of pink watered silk backed with linen and stitched with pink silk thread into 40 compartments for the whalebone, running vertically. The centre bone is 8mm wide with two of 7mm either side, alternating with strips of 4 mm wide. The lengthwise boning ends 3.5 cm from the top edge, which area is filled with 7 horizontal compartments of whaleboning. The busk is edged with pink silk grosgrain ribbon.
24-year-old Haneefah Adam of Nigeria, wasn’t seeing any Barbies dressed in the same way she did — wearing modest clothing that covers the body. So she started an Instagram account, called Hijarbie where she showcases Barbie in a variety of hand-sewn modest outfits and hijabs.
“I want to inspire the Muslim girl. It’s about having a doll that looks like her, that represents her own cultural and religious background”
“It’s important to create a sense of value in the Muslim child, especially the girl child,” Adam told Mic. “They become more confident, more driven, they believe more in themselves, which leads to an appreciation of herself and her modest lifestyle and upbringing. Instead of dressing up her dolls in clothes she wouldn’t wear, hijabifying it will create a sense of belonging and hopefully make a positive impact."
