Corset, March 2019. This was the first garment I made, for an art class in college. It was boned with large zip ties and the fashion fabric was a black silk. It was designed as a combination of Victorian style corsets with 1920's style binders/bras, with lacing at the back and the sides. The lacing ribons were color coded to turn this into a sort of gener comentary, because I believed my art had to be Saying Something in order to get a decent grade. I ended up using all blue ribbon later, when I wore this outside of class.

Skirt, May 2019. I made this from fabric I salvaged out of a recycling pile. I was deep into my historical sewing research binge at this point, and intended this skirt to be vaguely medieval. I gave this away a few years ago. I hope it's still loved.

Tunic, June 2019. The fabric was rayon, salvaged from a tablecloth or curtain or something. I couldn't figure out what it was intended as but I got it cheap at Goodwill and I loved the color and floral embroidery. This one was made with no pattern, just tracing out another shirt that fit me well. The seams were never finished properly so it's started fraying horribly by now, it's easy to overheat in, and it always fit fairly tight and uncomfortable in the shoulders. I'm considering taking it apart and using the fabric for something new.

Vest? August 2019. I took my birthday off work to finish this, a gift to myself. I love garments that are relatively drab on the outside but brightly colored on the inside, and this is the best example I have of that in my wardrobe. Still one of my favorite things I've made.

Wrap shirt, September 2019. The edge binding and the tie on the sleeve are done with leftover fabric from the edge binding/seam finishing on the previous vest. Great for throwing on over a bathing suit.

Bloomers, August 2020. Made from some old sheets, so they're wonderfully comfy against the skin. I was wearing a ton of long skirts at this point and the bloomers were crucial to protect my thighs from chaffing.

Jeans, September 2020. I was a summer into quarentine, and I'd either worn through or outgrown all my favorite pants. My solution was to cut them up and cobble them back together, frankenstein style. These are still one of my favorite things I've made, and I've modified them a couple times as I've continued to gain weight. I love the stars!

Pirate shirt, October 2020. I made a matching one for my roommate. Big, cotton, bright white. I basically never wear it- I have better blouses for anythign that's not a pirate costume.

Blue dress, November 2020. This was made from a slinky chiffon which I got on clearance, but then absolutely hated working with. I vowed to never work with such thin fabric again. I have of course broken this vow pretty spectacularly. The neck line was supposed to be straight but that looked.... bad, so I modified it into this nice V neck in November 2020.

Purple top, June 2021. The eyelets were all sewn by hand, and the front lacing is an old shoe lace from my tallest boots (which were laced with blue ribbon at this time). The fabric came from a shirt I thrifted. I don't like the gapint at my armpit, but other than that it's a great garment, one of my favorites in the summer.

Apron, June 2021. I only have the one pic because this was a birthday gift for my sibling. They were bringing me and some friends to Rocky Horror for their birthday and needed an apron for their Magenta costume.

Green pants, September 2021. I wanted some tight fitting bell bottoms but didn't want to use stretchy fabrics. In hindsight this was kinda ridiculous, because my weight has changed and now I'm looking at heavily altering them just to be able to fit in them again. It was also a huge pain at the time, getting them to fit exactly to the shape of my thighs. On the other hand, they looked Amazing when they fit me and they felt very secure and fancy. Seen here with that wrap top again, and my long vest. I love those things.

Bag December 2021. This is still my go-to every day bag. At the time I was dealing with a lot of annoying shoulder pain from lugging around a large, over-stuffed, one-shoulder bag. I made this one just big enough to fit my every-day essentials, including a little tupperware lunch bowl. I can wear it as a backpack, but I usually throw both straps over one shoulder and wear it like a normal bag. I carry a lot more perscriptions these days so I can't quite fit a lunch bowl in there anymore, but I also drive now, and carrying my lunch in my hands isn't so bad when it's just across the parking lot. I used three different colorways of the same fabric pattern, a nice sturdy upholstery cloth sample, and I took great care to line up the patterns of the three fabrics on the front pocket.

Green vest, April 2022. This was my mockup for the striped vest that came later, but I liked it enough to keep it as a garment. The lighter green is some old bedsheet material, and the darker green is some upholstery fabric. Seen here also are my favorite yellow shorts, which I did not sew but which I did add in a stripe of honeycomb fabric to make them fit me better. I have a bad habbit of thrifting clothes that are a hair too small.

Striped vest, April 2022. I made this to for a little gallery showing I was invited to participate in, at a cute local distillery. I made this final draft in one mad rush over the course of one day, which I do not recommend.It paired great with my green pants, and out of pure luck the whole outfit matched the venue perfectly.

Horns, June 2022. These ones are just so fun. Maybe I'm a just a furry but I do love some good ears and horns. Seen here with that purple lace-up shirt I made (with the laces swapped out) and those same favorite shorts of mine. I saved a scrap of the purple floral fabric to make a matching belt.

Doll, started September 2022, finished December 2024. There was a ton of tiny sewing in this project, and this video covers basically all the detail work that went into her. Do doll clothes count as garments? Kinda?

Yellow dress, October 2022. This is made from the same fabric as my horns, and included a little pin-on demon tail with a heart shaped tip, which I don't have any pictures of. But it's cute as hell, I promise. I really wanted to make the heart shaped boob window. Everything else was in service of that design. The end result is probably my favorite garment I've ever made. The full costume makes me So happy to wear. unfortunately I can't really fit into it now, and the side-zipper will make it tricky to size up.

Fairy dress, October 2022. Another dress made from clearance rack chiffon. This time I got clever and used masking tape in a big grid to stabalize the fabric before tracing and cutting. I also traced my pattern pieces with more masking tape, so that the fabric couldn't shift around while I worked. That worked really well, but it was still a pain to work with. All the seams are French seams, because I couldn't imagine any other kind of seam finishing working with this fabric. The end result is cute enough, especially with a belt or corset thrown over top. I don't like how tight the shoulders are though, especially with the sleeves down, so I end up rolling and pinning the sleeves up most of the time. I used up every last bit of this fabric making the dress, so if I ever modify the shoulders I'll have to take apart the sleeves for fabric to make it work. I do think it's cute though, and it made for an amazing haloween fairy costume with a bit of pinching and tucking.

Black pants, August 2024. At this point a series of houseguests and roomate changes had made my sewing(/game/guest) room totally inaccessable for most of a year, so this is the only thing I made for a long time. I almost forgot to include them because they're such a staple of my wardrobe now that I actually forgot I'd made them. These jeans were pieced together out of two other pairs of jeans that I'd worn through. They're big and black and they have a lot of pockets and they're very comfy and I can fit leggings underneath when it's chilly. Seen here alongside a very surprising and beautiful and soft llama that I met when I tabled at RCCC that year.