New things

Gloves. They're surprisingly frustrating to make. It is also difficult to find cheap patterns for.

So I decided to improvise just for the hell of it.

I elected to make individual finger sleeves from the felt scraps I had lying around.

They look ridiculous because I was using scraps and being somewhat lazy in the design. 

Perhaps because there wasn't any. 

Painfully slow process but I believe it was finished within a night. 

The range of movement wasn't terrible. 

Though it clearly could use improvement in places.

Will these be a mockup of sorts? Perhaps. I doubt these will make for the gloves I had in mind. To the fur suit making sites... AWAY!

Akasha's Skirt

is a big pain. It kind of looks/ed like a Georgia O'Keefe painting due to the way I cut the material and sewed it up.

I have yet to invest in a sewing machine simply because the handsewing is a nice easy way to lose track of my hands and just relax. I guess once again I found some idle work for my hands to whittle away the time.

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I have so far bought 5 yards of chiffon/organza (I can't remember which I had purchased right now) for the overlay/skirt and some sort of swimwear lining for the underskirt. 1.5 yards of purple chiffon/organza. A beadwork book. New fun tape. A skirt pattern that ended up being useless. Total spent so far: $110 ish.

The skirt is surprisingly irritating to work with as a result of my laziness in cutting the fabric and not really considering what I honestly needed to do to make it a circle skirt. Damn. At least I'll have the extended belt covering my mistakes.

-Kimdolion