I FINALLY got around to some sewing that's been waiting for me forever... however I have yet to start working on Fanime cosplays... T_T


I've had this dress with crochet/lace details on it since high school but I never wore it because I didn't like the top part, or maybe just the details on top and bottom together were too much. So today, I decided to chop it in half and make the bottom part into a skirt, since I still like it.



Uh yeah... kinda forgot to take a "before" picture of the dress lol. This is the top.



I'm thinking of attaching a skirt out of the butterfly fabric... still need to decide cut/shape.




And then... I'm FINALLY resizing this Avatar shirt that I got at the Comic-con panel from like... 3 years ago? ><;
This is technically not step 1 because I already cut the collar but this is the original shirt, mostly.



I usually use a baby tee as a template but I wanted to try a different cut so I'm using this shirt that I really like~



There goes the collar



Never underestimate the power of symmetry! I did trace both sides of the shirt when I laid it on top, but I chose the neater side to fold on top and follow when I cut the shirt.



There we go



I sewed the side seams and tried on the shirt to see the fit. I think half the time I spend sewing is trying on the clothes... putting it on the dressform is not quite the same.
There was a time when t-shirts had wide, unfinished collars, but we're much classier than that...



Here I added together the measurements of the front and back neck opening so I know how much collar fabric to cut.



...so I kinda skipped like 8 steps but here, I just cut out a strip of fabric from the leftover sleeve fabric and divided it into a longer and shorter piece to correspond to the wider front neck opening and the smaller back neck opening. I then sewed the ends together and proceeded to triplefold it (basically like bias tape). I'M SORRY IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.



I then divided the collar piece and neck opening in quarters, marking the intervals with chalk. ...I can tell you're confused.



So here's a diagram! Accompanied by a pretty unhelpful photo. But see, I've matched up the shoulder seam with the seam of the collar! It's prettier this way.



The finished collar! ...kinda looks like shit.



But it looks great from afar! Hurray!



And a preview of the next shirt...





Okay now it's time to work on cosplays...