aranumenwen
If you want I can post a pic of the quick little sketch I did for the pattern pieces. I drafted a pattern from it but I don't have that part anymore.
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There this store that used to sell soft corsets "charolette russe" for the longest time it was the only store in town that sold even anything close to an actual corset (aside from of course the local goth in a box, or hot topic if you like. I won't even step foot in there. The clothing quality is sub par at best) I admit corsets aren't practical but I still absolutely adore them.
If the fabric is stretchy you can get away with a soft corset.
Alternately, have you considered a vest. Something tailored and flattering. Maybe something that sits below your bust line. I made that vest a while ago. It's pretty tailored though, I don't know who confident you are with that. Mine isn't that high, but I got lucky (very) winging it. It's a halter top wrap around thing, there's more pictures in the project, You could use satin for the back of it like how they do on normal vests. The one I made isn't stretchy at all. I was just thinking that you could use it for that and pair it with virtually anything. Dress it up or down, that way you'll be able to wear it whenever, it is some really gorgeous fabric. You can always do some paneling with a vest as well. Maybe even go for more of a waistcoat (come to think of it I'm not quite sure if there's a difference between those and a vest....is there?) You could totally add in a pocket, or even a false pocket and add a silver chain to highlight the fabric. And just rock it. You could even use some of the scraps and add them onto some spats or something. Maybe some fabric wrapped buttons even. Geez I don't even know what your style is like but I totally got sidetrack inspired there....believe me it was way worse in thought process form, ha ha.
You should be able to get away with making it a skirt. I've seen quite a few fleece skirts actually. Although you could always go with a pullover sort of thing.
Depending on how long you're planning on making the skirt or how heavy the fleece is a drawstring might not be enough to hold it up on your hips all day. It runs the risk of ending up uncomfortable, having to constantly readjust the tie. You could to a snap drawstring combo. I've never really tried to to put a snap in fleece though...
If you do buttons you should be pretty safe. Honestly, when I read this I was thinking like a floor length skirt with buttons all the way down the back, or side even.
You could even do a higher fitted waist and have, if you are able to fit it properly you might not even need a closure depending on you build. Personally, my butt's to big for all that. The only problem there would be attaching the skirt to the waist band without the seam becoming to bulky.
Good luck! Hopefully you'll be able to post your finished project!
In case you haven't done anything with it yet. (it WAS 11 days ago)
I think that fabric would make an excellent corset. Maybe an underbust? Depending on how ambitious your are maybe you could do a corset and only use the brocade for around the bust. In case you were worried about it being to busy. Or possibly with only some of the panels in the brocade? Maybe reversible one, I don't really no much about corsetry (yet!) so I don't know how hard it would actually be.
If you have the opportunity you should try and look up the episode(s) or project runway were they did a couture challenge. It goes over some basics and I think it would be some good inspiration. I only know of one season where they did it, but I don't follow that show as closely as I should.
Normally I swear by singers, but I think they're kinda failing lately as far as quality for decent prices are concerned. I got one of the cheaper ones for maybe $100 and it hasn't been holding up very well. Considering I used to use one that was older than I was, I'm really disappointed.
I did hear about a brand recently called baby lock, they had a kiosk at the county fair by me. They had really intriguing name so I had to check em out, they had some really nice machines, reasonably priced and the salesman guy said the use all metal parts on the innards the only plastic is on the outside. Which all that makes a big difference. Also make a big difference in how well it runs, and noise and if it'll start rocking. As long as you keep it oiled it'll run like butta'
Comforter is just a big huge puffy bedspread. Mine is all warm and soft and snuggly.
Mine is made to fit a king size bead (even though I'm rockin' a double, wait I mean that in a non-sexual way) It's huge, I wish I new the actual dimensions though. It's huge and actually kinda heavy once it all folded up, I have to use a seriously oversized plastic bag from rebook. Cause I guess when you buy two pairs of shoes they give you a bag big enough for 5 pairs it seems.
I'm running low on notions and ideas, what are some kind of inventive closure you guys are using lately?
You know what I was thinking the other night. I'm constantly dragging my comforter back and forth from my house to my boyfriends house, I carry it in a plastic bag and it's ripping really badly I should try and make like a sleeping bag kind of case with a handle for it. But I don't even know how to go about it...does anyone have any ideas, and do you think a yard would be enough?
I don't really wear pajama pants as much as I wear ginormous sweatpants. Almost all the time, either that or tiny shorts...I know I dress strangely.
Although a great and appreciated answer I don't think that I would ever get to put them to use.
I recently inherited about a yard of pink fleece with piggies on it. I wish more than anything I had a picture of it to post. But alas it's not with me right now.
My only problem is I don't know what to do with it. It's bright pink, like barbie pink so that automatically means I'm not going to wear it. Don't believe me? Check out my projects, I don't do pink. But I'm in love with this fabric and I need something to do with it...So does anyone have any ideas...
I've been racking my brain randomly trying to come up with something, the only think I can think of is a hoodie lining (I think the pink is well hidden enough for me to pull it off.) but I'm not sure if I have enough for that. The only other thing I've thought of is a purse lining. But I don't really like putting fleece on the inside of purses, because after a while it gets gross, and personally I think it's to stretchy to serve its purpose there.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I've found this site is the best source of idea people out there.
Goth in a boss () I ' could have opted for,
I'm not even playin'g, drunken checker vs. New England
Oh wow, I didn't even know you could do that! Great suggestion.
And also you're so very welcome Hayley.
Do you have a drop in bobbin or a bobbin case. Either way you should try taking out as much of the bobbin area machine "guts" you can make sure they're dust free and that there isn't some stray broken threads in there. Every time something goes wrong with mine it always gets worse cause a bunch of stuff gets all stuck in that area. When you put it all back together make sure it's oiled and stuff. (I don't know how great of an idea it was but when I ran out of sewing machine oil, I use pam or liquid wrench)
If you have a bobbin case you may need to adjust the tension thing on the case itself. If you're using a not normal thread sometimes its necessary. I would save this for last though because it's SUPER touchy.
I don't know if you've been adjusting both the tensions. Most of the time they're two controls but the other one is rarely labeled, or maybe that must my luck. If your two tensions aren't jiving it'll throw off even the simplest operations. It's terrible, but a good majority of the time you won't even need the second.
It could very well be a problem with the needle, even if it's dull or just the wrong needle for the job.
Depending on how old your machine is it might just need a tune up.
Other than that I can't think of much else...unless turns out that you've been threading it the wrong way the entire time...that happened to me, no kidding I had the thing for two year and I was doing it the same way every time and then all the sudden it was an issue, turns out I'm retarded and was looking at the picture wrong. wtf...