Tutorial Time: Thick Waistband Loli-able Skirt

I will hereby call my Sewing posts as Instinctive Sewing because I have near-zero sewing background. I pretty much sew and draft patterns by instinct! Except for the patterns they taught in 5th grade TLE–basic shirt, skirt and shorts, all of which we never sewed anyway…just patternmaking, really boring tbh–I have no real formal lessons with sewing. It’s always been a long, hit-and-miss thing with me. I have been trying to sew since circa 2009. I’ve only recently gotten the hang of it. Almost five long years!

Anyway today I thought I’d share with you all how to make my recent loli-able skirt. It was a skirt I sewed mid-late-2013 and I’ve recently decided to ‘redux’ it. I haven’t taken enough proper photos as this wasn’t intended to be a how-to when I was  taking photos, just a chronicling, but I did try my best to illustrate the pattern and describe it all with my best! Read more for rough pattern and directions. ^^;;

Quick and Easy: Fabric Painting with Stencils

Quick and Easy (and cheap too xD) time this week! Today we deal with something every costumer or cosplayer had probably thought of–fabric painting. Sometimes characters wear clothes with specific patterns that can’t be readily found in fabric stores. I’m going to run everyone very quickly to a technique I use–making and using stencils for fabric painting. ^^

Yuffie was my first ever cosplay way back 2010. So very sorry for the blurry photos, our cameras were a no-go back then. xD She has very specific floral patterns on her shirt that I did using this technique.

You’ll need some paper, cutters, a pen, a brush, and your acrylic or fabric paint. That and your reference photo. And that’s really all you need. ^^

Quick and Simple: How to Make a Polymer Clay Cookie

This is Quick and Simple week, and today I’m going to show everyone how to make a chocolate-chip cookie out of Polymer Clay. You can use this cookie for your Sweet Lolita / Decora / Sweets deco projects and get-ups.

Quick and Simple: Fabric Hair Candies

In today’s quick and easy blog post, I’m here to quickly run everyone down making fabric hair candies! They’re perfect for Sweet lolita, and make a unique hair accessory too outside of Lolita. The best part is they’re fairly easy to make!

Quick and Simple: Lolita Bow Tutorial

It’s been a while since I posted! Thanks to everyone, the shop, Three Smitten Kittens, is as busy as a bee. We’ve also opened our Etsy store and the sales are doing nice so far, so all my thanks to everyone! But now I’ve decided to take a short break for crafting to share this absolutely quick, absolutely simple tutorial for Lolita bows.

Hair Chalking Wigs

HAIR CHALKING WIGS

Most people ask if Hair Chalk, or Soft Pastels/Artist’s Chalk, works on wigs. And yes, it does. I just wanted to answer the question definitely and share some results with everyone.

Polymer Clay Roses

(PHOTO: ABOVE: Unbaked polymer clay roses in black, white, and red.)

A Noob Trying to do her Hair

I’m a hair noob. I can’t fix it and tie it up in pretty ways much as I want to. I almost always had my hair short, which may be one of the reasons I’m  a hair noob. Short hair is just simple and not bothersome. But a while ago I was attacked by the urge to try to fix my hair in something, because I have this Japanese book of how to style hair and all that. Here is my feeble attempt.

A scan directly from my Japanese Cutesy Hairstyles book.