Continuing with the Lippan art, my board took 24 hrs to fully dry. Now here’s a few things to make sure you have in hand before we go ahead – Good amount of any adhesive like fevicol or mod podge, chalk powder, old newspapers. Take a few newspapers and tear them into very tiny pieces and put them in water over night, we’ll be using … Continue reading Further on the Lippan Piece
It’s that time of the year. Diwali! Its the biggest festival of India. Well its not really Diwali today, its on the 27th of this month, however, Indian families start preparing for it days before the actual festival. So as always mom and I decided to get creative and start some new projects at our place. One of the things that we are doing is … Continue reading Lippan Art
Now once you have your corset, neckline, and lining in place, its time to start closing them all to create a nice beautiful seamless inside out corset. Let’s start with the hemline. Remember we took 3 cms seam allowance in the beginning, mark that 3 cms all the way from one end to another and fold in towards the inside. Make sure as you are … Continue reading Corset making – Hems and Eyelets
Now once you have your corset in place and are done with your boning channels, its time to start working on the finishes. Lets start with the neckline. The neckline will be finished by, of course, facing. In order to make the pattern for facing, place your patterns right next to one another, aligning the neckline, so it is continuous. The pattern will be on … Continue reading Corset Stitching – Facing, Lining, and Hem
Boning is a piece of plastic/ metal/ wood, that is inserted into the corset to give it a rigid look and help in the contouring. The boning I will be using is a plastic one, 0.6 cms wide. (I don’t recommend plastic boning if you are making one, this is dummy piece and for college submission which is why we’re asked to use plastic boning. … Continue reading Corset Stitching – Boning
So starting off with the corset you need to get all your panels right. A basic corset has four panels – two front and two back. There are corsets which have a center front seam or have a continuous front center panel. I opted for the one with a seam because it gives a more fitted appearance that other one. Well, it’s totally up to … Continue reading Basic Corset Stitching
Hey everyone welcome to Artful Saturdays. This is one of my weekly segments where I share a new creative piece every week. This week is another pencil color sketch that I recently finished. Well adding another piece to my currently going on “Once Upon a Time” collection, I sketched the most talked couple of the show. Captain Hook and Emma Swan, or as they are referred … Continue reading Artful Saturdays – PC Sketch #4
Hey everyone, very beautiful morning today. Its cool, its cold and its wintery. I hate this weather, I just don’t like it, although I like snow (confusing much?). Its very quiet here. Lol. Anyhoo, so today I am sharing one of the thousand things I have done this semester. I know everyone has heard of shibori dyeing techniques. Its basically an ancient Japanese technique to … Continue reading Introducing Shibori
Hey everyone welcome to Artful Saturdays. This is one of my weekly segments where I share a new creative piece every week. This week has the “Holiday Special Bottle Decor Lamp”. Inspired by the spirit of Christmas and the joy it offers, and in the spirit of recycling, I made this set out of junk alcohol bottles. Didn’t take much trouble but I absolutely love … Continue reading Artful Saturdays – DIY Bottle Decors
Could the prompts have gotten any better? I mean first it was create and I got to post my tessellations and now its Bottle. Its like destiny is knocking at my door saying “Silas post about your Bottle decor now!” haha. Well so in some of my previous posts I talked about how I’m recycling some old alcohol bottles into good decorative pieces like lamps/showpieces/etc. … Continue reading Bottle decor – DIY #1
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