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I started with a corset pattern a friend of mine helped me to draft. I always start by making a mock up. (Trust me this will save you a lot of stress ...
After cutting out the pieces I pined them right sides together, and stitched the pieces together.
After the pieces are sewn together, I clipped the curves, and pressed the seams over pinning it in place. This helps your curves to lay flat and preve...
I make a lot of corset mockups so I have made lacing rails out of a strip of coutil and setting grommets in it. This way I can just sew the rails on e...
At this point I laced up the corset mock up and try it on. Then I looked over the mockup to see where I need to adjust it, pull it apart, made the adj...
Now that the mockup is perfect, I pulled it apart with a seam ripper and used it as a pattern. What to cut: Cut 4 of each piece out of the red s...
Next I took 1 piece of the red silk, the corresponding piece of web, and coutil piece. I placed the fuze-able web in between the coutil and the red si...
I like to serge the edges of all of my corset pieces to prevent fraying. This keeps them from being a pain to work with, keeps them from shrinking due...
Then I pressed Seams down and stitched them over as on the mockup.
Then I Inserted bones. The lengths of them will depend on your torso. You want your bones to go right up to your seam allowance to really keep your co...
I then painted a swirling gold fire design on the outside layer of the corset. I used Lumiere gold fabric paint. You really just need a little creativ...
I then added the beads and swarovski crystals to the corset. I sewed them on with clear thread, passing through each bead at least 4 times before knot...
Next I sewed together the pieces of the lining. I also stitched some bias tape along the side of the bust to insert a small bone to keep the sides of ...
I pinned the lining to the outer layer with the wrong sides together. Then stitched slowly down the center of each seam on the right side. This is oft...
Then I cut some strips out of the silk for the binding. I used 4 strips for this corset. 1 for the bottom binding, and 3 for the top. (One piece for e...
I marked the pacing of the grommets and set them with a grommet setter. Marking helps me set them in a nice line, I have a tendency to make them uneve...
I tend to use a stock pattern to establish a really basic shape for my skirts and alter them from there. I used butterick 3843 in this case, and the t...
I cut out the back of the skirt out of each color of chiffon, making each layer slightly shorter than the last. I wanted a colorful layered fire effec...
I sewed the front sides to center front matching the right sides, and repeated on the other 2 layers.
I then pinned yellow back piece on the dress form and pleated the back snug. I did this with the other 2 layers, and then serged them all together at ...
Next I pinned the from layers onto the dress form. I then pinned in the pleats, arranging them until I liked how the front was draping.
Next I laid the pleaded layers over the opaque orange fabric and used it as a base to cut out the piece that would go under it. I then marked some dar...
Next I sewed the front to the back on one side. I have designed this to be a wrap skirt so I serged the other side. I pinned it to the dress form and...
Next I pinned the chiffon layers to the opaque layers. I took some long fireplace matches and burned the bottom edges of all of the fabric. This preve...
I finished off the skirt by sewing on the waistband and skirt hooks. I made it a wrap skirt so it's easy to get on, but the way it wraps it looks like...
I used epoxy glue to set the red gem in the brass setting, and then i used gorilla glue to glue on the brass wings. After that set I glued a pin on th...
I cut out a long strip of red chiffon and a shorter strip or orange chiffon. I serged them with a rolled hem setting and then used clear thread to sti...
Lastly I added some beads to the skirt with clear thread. I also made a necklace, but I didn't take pictures of the steps of that because I was press...
I used epoxy glue to set the red gems in the setting. I then glued the setting to another brass piece, and then added earring hooks.
I used Galvanized steel wire and black floral tape to make a wing frame. Just cut the different veins of the wings and use the floral tape to wrap it ...
Then I traced the shape of the wings onto orange cellophane and cut out 2 of each wing. This is just a basic shape at this point. It'll get refined in...
I cut out some red & orange accent shapes, sprayed basting spray on one layer of the orange cellophane, and stuck them on. Then I stuck the wire frame...
I use a heat gun to shrink the cellophane to the frame. (Be careful not to get it too close or you will burn large holes and tears into the cellophane...
I trimmed the edges of the wings to the general shape I was looking for, and then used a wood burning tool to burn the edges and add some holes for a ...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris www.mgnorris.com Hair and makeup done by me To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdesign.com...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris www.mgnorris.com Hair and makeup done by me To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdesign.com...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris http://www.mgnorris.com Hair and makeup done by me To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdes...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris http://www.mgnorris.com Hair and makeup done by me To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdes...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris http://www.mgnorris.com Hair and makeup done by me To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdes...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris http://www.mgnorris.com Hair and makeup done by me To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdes...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris www.mgnorris.com To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdesign.com/costume.html
Photo by my husband Matt Norris http://www.mgnorris.com To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdesign.com/costume.html or to...
Photo by my husband Matt Norris http://www.mgnorris.com To see more of my work visit my website http://www.littlewingsdesign.com/costume.html
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