Doublet fest - simplicity 4059

My husband has been asking for a matching costume for forever so I finally made him one. I used the same fabric that I had used for my costume so a lightweight outdoor fabric and a corduroy.

The first thing I did was the hat it was pretty straightforward and I did a lot of hand sewing. For the feather accessory I took a large tacky gold button spray-painted it with metallic spray paint hot glued a ruffle around it then hot glue the feathers on the back of the button and then hot glued a felt circle to the back and attached it with safety pins.

Reminds me of strawberry shortcake. 

The pants are pretty straightforward although the first time he wore them out he ripped them right at the bottom of the crotch. so if you're making them and between sizes I'd say go up. also around the back I used a piece of elastic just to make it a little bit tighter. Just sewn directly around the back. The front crotch opening was a little bit tricky to line up but just take your time.  

The shirt alone took me five hours and I kind rushed through it. It was pretty straightforward and instead of doing a hand ruffle I used a premade trim ruffle that I just had. The only problem I had was in the front where the shirt is split I don't think the pattern told you went to flip it around so just make sure you flip it around before you attach it by It's shoulder seams. 

The loops I sewed elastic I made them too long but just left it. Put some gold rick rack on the shoulder poofs that came out very well. I didn't even intend for It to line up but it ended up lining up on one side. 

My husband is 5'8" and this is how long it was before I shortened it 6 inches. Way too long. Instead of doing the loops for the detachable doublet sleeves I just sewed them on. It didn't lineup perfectly so the back of the sleeves you can't see but they're not sewn on, underneath the shoulder poofs so you'll never know. ; )

After shortening the finished product! This is very time-consuming but I'm glad it came out well. He wore this to the Renaissance fair. A man complimented him on it and asked if I was very expensive because of the buttons but they were just cheap gold ones I bought at Michael's in bulk and spray-painted with metallic spray paint they look good as fancy buttons. Spray paint is amazing. 

Red women's Renaissance dress - Mc calls m6376

 I made the dress last year and I pretty much did it to pattern. The directions are good and it was really easy follow.

I bought this interesting fabric at Joann's for half off red tag, I think it was outdoor fabric I saw it and couldn't resist. I added 8 inches to each side so 16 inches total at the bottom to show off more of the pattern.

I used some lightweight corduroy for the other part of the dress.

Instead of doing the sleeves on the pattern I opted for a simple Longsleeve I also added a little At the top to give it some interest. I also opted for a zipper.

Adding some gold trim. I have very small shoulders so I just took it in the back a little bit. 

The French hood is from simplicity pattern. 2589. It was mostly handsewn and it fits great I don't have to pin it to my head or anything. The main thickest part of lace was actually white I spray-painted it and hot glued all the lace and pearls onto the front.  I figured it would be okay to spray paint lace because it wouldn't be touching my skin and wouldn't rub off on it so far it's held up well. I used corduroy and some very thick felt for the base I really love this pattern. Easy beautiful and very versatile.

The finished look! Who doesn't love matchy matchy. I love this pattern I'm going to use it to make something for my friend. Very easy would definitely recommend.

Scrap Elsa - McCall's M 7000 winter princess review

So everyone wants to be Elsa From frozen this year for Halloween and I was no exception I didn't want to spend a lot of money on fabric so I decided to use what I had.  I did not think I would have enough. Besides buying The pattern for $.99 this dress was made out of everything that I Already had. Thank you Angel for your lovely donations. 

I grabbed anything that i might be able to use from my stash the little snowflakes was actually wrapping From a Christmas present.

There was only one person who had completed the dress of the adult size before I tried it and she gave it a good pretty good review but I had a awful time with this pattern. The Bodice size was completely off for me I had to take it in 6 inches which led everything else to get resized improperly.

The start of my bodice since I used 4 layers starting with blue cotton than two layers of sparkly dark blue tule and then a layer of that Christmas wrapping on top the bodice was very thick. I think that if I had not made it so thick that would've been much easier to take in. I would not recommend using a thick fabric.  Or if you are using a thick type of fabric, Or expensive sequins Making a mock up might benefit you. I found the sizing to be very off.

The dress didn't call For a slit but I added one in anyways here is the pattern sort of laid out. 

This is a fun photo this is literally all the scraps I had. I had a little bit of chiffon, Left for the sleeves I was able to cut two extra sleeves out of it. Which is good because I screwed up.  I didn't have enough of the sparkly cape material to actually use the pattern so I just cut a slit down the middle like the pattern said and just pleated it up and sewed it on. If you're in a rush you can definitely skip that part it looks just fine.

After I had put everything together I had altered the neck I kept chopping it down. With the neck so high and looked very priest like to me I was very claustrophobic so I just kept chopping until I found the look I liked. Since the armholes were different sizes because of having to alter the bodice my original sleeves had a poof at the top because I didn't alter the pattern. 

30 seconds into the dress I had ripped my sleeves for making the sleeve too narrow. Not in the pattern, I did that myself. I had enough chiffon to cut a second pair of sleeves but when I added it to it I was having a new problem it was just too narrow I'm not sure what happened. I tried several times to put the sleeves on probably about five or six times I try to sew the sleeves on differently to see if they would fit but they just wouldn't work. They were too narrow at the bicep, but when i fit them off the dress my arm had plenty of room. Im not sure what was going on. After trying several times with the chiffon sleeve I had damaged it to the point of no return. Remembering that I had some blue stretch I brought that out and recut the shape of the sleeve taking off about 2 inches just at the very top. I refit the sleeve and it worked perfectly. I added a little bit more lace, And although it's not perfect I think it gets the job done. I was really frustrated with the sleeve and although the blues do not match I'm happy with how it looks now.

Hoping to get some worn photos of it soon.

Would I recommend this pattern? Yes. Prepare for some issues around the top of the bodice doing that little triangle Sweetheart cut. I would say if you're using expensive or thicker type materials definitely make a mock up of the bodice because that threw me off for the entire project. Definitely using a stretchy fabric would have made this a lot easier. Since my bodice was very thick I altered it to fit before sewing the rest of the pices on which threw me off.

Also a little tip if you're doing this on a budget going to the thrift store and getting some see-through  curtains will make a great cape. 

My sister donated some fabric to me so I decided to remake it, I ended up buying a small amount of the gliter swirl on the front so this cost me about $2. Seccond attempt was succesful, I plan on using this pattern again for regular dresses.