Blast from the Past: Big Mean Pink Alice-Bow

There really isn't much to say about this monster, other than... what the crap was I thinking?! I mean... it's shaped really funny. It wasn't the fact that I had no idea what I was doing, it was the fact that my head wasn't on straight and that I had very little experience with a sewing machine. I also used satin ribbon. While there isn't anything wrong with that... I should have sewn the ribbon onto the pink fabric. I think I had a good idea going on here, but at least now I know how to learn from this. I tried again with a different one, it was plain, but only because I was planning on just testing out this Alice Bow tutorial.

I didn't use interfacing like I should have, because I didn't have any. But now I REALLY know the importance of using that, and ironing. I had an iron, but I didn't want to iron it yet, since it wasn't really 'done' yet. (It's actually just pinned together, ha ha ha...)

Here I am wearing the thing. It's just sitting on my head, as it's still just pinned together. I think I made this about a year and a half ago. When I was living in a townhouse. (As a matter of fact, I still have this bow, and I don't plan on finishing it. Maybe I'll salvage the fabric and make th e bow A LOT smaller.)

Maybe it doesn't look right because I

Blast from the Past: My First Alice Bow

Hey girls. Long time no post. I decided it was a bad idea, so I deleted the 'Princess Lessons' thing... yeah... too many people are already doing that anyway. It'll seem like I'm trying to be like them, or ripping them off. D: I don't want to do that so... Yeah, I'll just use this here blog as a personal blog about myself and my love for Lolita, like it originally was supposed to.

Anyway, today I bring... another blast from the past! Hell yeah.

So, back in 2007 or so, I thought I would take a whack at making one of those beautiful bows, right? Yeah, well, this was my first attempt. At first, I was all like: Yeah! This is awesome! This is right! But after a while I changed my mind... and it only took a whole month to realize that what I did was just wrong. BUT! I was learning! (Still am, too.)

What I learned from the ladies on EGL/Sewloli:

• Wrong lace shape/size
• Use grosgrain ribbon
• Use interfacing
• Make it not so big
• Topstitch where we can't see it

I believe that was it. xD Here is me wearing it (where you can see me... and how really freaking huge it is, lol) :

Also I learned... BIG LOLITA NO-NO! Brush/comb hair, always!! (of course I was more

Also... opinions... should you all just call me 'Cinderella' or just by my real name? For some reason, some peoples at school started calling me Cinderella after spotting me editing this blog from school, so what do you think?

Blast from the Past: Brittany's Old Lolita Things

I thought I'd start out with something from my past... very embarrassing at times, but just too fun not to share anyway...

Well, about a few years ago, 2007 to be exact, I thought it would be great if I made my own lolita items. So, I chose to make rectangle headdresses from scratch. I thought it would be easy, yet I knew nothing about the basics of sewing. I had hand sewn these two (and eventually, several others) 'headresses' using just one piece of fabric, the wrong types of lace (also wrongly placed) and some satin ribbons, which weren't long enough to be tied successfully under my chin. But for some reason, I thought it was right, and I ended up liking them, not really noticing just what I've done. Ha ha ha.

Several months later, I found out just how horrible they were, and tossed them all out. I vowed to study more on the fashion and sewing together. So that I could make something correctly, and that looks nice. (I also had made some pieces of jewelry, but I'll save those for another post.)