I have much to learn when it comes to editing. And I also think I should’ve checked the settings on the camera I borrowed for these pictures so that her skin didn’t look mottled or spotted. Hrm.

red x grey scarf with checkerboard-like texture

The first scarf really looked so cute even in the pictures. I was excited as she was telling me of its progress. This scarf is not only cute; it is also warm and soft. The yarn she used was good. I could wear this on the days that I wear black or grey. (My usual colorsXD)

Cotton Candy Cumulus

puffy petticoat!

This is still with Jonette so she could use it as reference for the second skirt she’s making me. After all, if this petti is going underneath the skirt, she might as well know how it would look like with it! I tried it on when we met up a couple of weekends ago and it was nice and puffy! I love it It’s a bit loose on me but there are always pins to help me wear it haha. I think she mentioned adjusting it. But seriously, it’s nice and puffy

lulu - the skirt inspired by the VM regimental stripe skirt

This is the first skirt she gave to me. I saw the pictures of the cloth she saw in Divisoria and I just loved the stripes on this one so much that I had to simply ask her to make me this nice skirt. I don’t regret it one bit because it fits comfortably on me.

Jonette is really dedicated to her craft and I am so happy that she indulged me with my requests. If you think that she’s really awesome, please drop by her blog, The Hobby Horse and show some love.

PS: All photos on this blog entry are from Jonette’s Facebook albums and blog.
Lulu – first skirt commission
First scarf commencement
Cotton Candy Cumulus

The back view of the green skirt.

This is my first time to make a skirt with a curved hemline. It’s more difficult to sew because I had to stop at certain points to make sure the stitches curve. There was also a whole of cloth involved in the process because I followed the guide I saw on the EGL community on how to make a flared skirt.

New things I learned:

• Iron settings. My cloth had to be ironed with a setting of at least ‘4′ on it. I think that’s quite hot, literally. If it’s not hot enough, the fold won’t stay at all. I tried it with the hem and failed. I think it was because I used the wrong setting. It was too cool so it kept unfolding. When I sewed the waistaband it wasn’t too bad anymore.
• How to put the zipper foot. I think what we got on our Brother XL 2230 is a general zipper foot. I will take pictures of it next time. The zipper foot we have at home didn’t look like any of those on the videos I found online. So I had to read the manual. I had to put the zipper foot on while reading the manual because I couldn’t understand it. My imagination wasn’t enough. Anyhow, it works!
• How to use the zipper foot. Because it looked different from the online tutorials I saw, I had to figure it out with the help of the manual. Again, I must take pictures so people will understand what I want to say about the zipper foot.
• Cutting makes an entire difference. There was one piece which I cut smaller than the rest. So it affected how I was going to make them all fit at the waist. Also I should’ve cut the waistband piece first because it was a rectangular piece compared to the rest.
• I learned that I have yet to learn how to determine which is the wrong side and the right side of the cloth. And that I should mark them accordingly. Plain cloth such as this and tetoron make me confused as to which side is right and which side is wrong.

Because of this list of things I learned, I now have a better idea of what kinds of projects I want to make so I could improve. I know I still have my apron, blouse, petticoat and bloomers to make but I’d spend Friday and Saturday for most of them. I might outsource the blouse though. It’s just too difficult for me.

I want to make another skirt. Maybe out of a certain pair of old jeans or something. Also, a skort is tempting. Really. I used to have skirt/skort. Its zipper in front made it into a skirt. That skirt/skort was something I had when I was 10 or 11 years old. Should be interesting to make one this time around.

• Chibitalia skirt
• Chibitalia blouse
• Chibitalia apron
• a reversible bag
• a flared skirt
• a wrap-around skirt
• drawstring pants
• drive-in pants/thai pants
• pajamas
• curtains for my room
• pillowcases
• change the collars on my tees
• plushies

That’s quite a lot but I really want to do at least half of those on the list. I didn’t put many blouses on my list because I think that pants are going to be difficult as they are. But I have to finish the Chibitalia cosplay by end of August in preparation for Cosplaymania. Not that I will enter a competition, but my sister and I want to costrip.:)

This week I went twice with different companions. Thursday, it was Pepper. I got two new shirts from there. Last night, it was Ja. We got hoodies of the same style but different prints. I fit well in the XL size. Yay! We girls were so giddy last night because of the cheap finds!

To show how giddy we were, we had photos taken when we got back to the office:

(Thanks to Ealden for the original upload! :D)

I don’t even know what’s on tv these days so I don’t really know what Filipino movie stars are wearing. I have an idea what Filipino pop and rock artists wear on their videos and I kinda like those clothes. As for office wear, I know what people in Makati are wearing so that’s it. When it comes to formal wear, I kinda look at what’s in a J-drama or an anime. Sometimes I refer to K-dramas too.

There was a time in college that someone told me that she found the Japanese weird because of their socks. She said that they don’t match. Even then I was fond of wearing colored socks. Sometimes they match, sometimes they don’t. It doesn’t matter as long as I find the combination cute.

In any case I found some blouses which are long enough for me to wear them as dresses if I dare. :P They are both black and are quite girly. I could wear them with jeans or my black strechy pants. I like it that they could be treated as short dresses. It means more girly stuff for me!

I also found a sleeveless blouse which I plan to wear over my frilly blouse when I try to look a bit gothic lolita for next week’s party. Papanda will be my doll. They say he has a morbid look so maybe that should be interesting. Hehe.