Sewing a Historically Inspired Alice in Wonderland Cosplay || Making a Mockup using M7885
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- I bet you thought we were going to start making the dress this week, well so did I until my better conscience told me to make a mockup 😅 Mockups are super important for getting everything just right so I am going to be good and hopefully this will prevent any regrets down the line. I go on a brief tangent on the importance of undersleeves and you'll get to hear about my new house woes! There is also some prime sleepy cat footage. This is part nine of my series making Hannah Alexander's Alice in Wonderland design and my research and inspiration are drawn very heavily from mid-Victorian fashion, specifically the 1860s, since that's when Alice in Wonderland was written and what seems to most match Hannah's drawing.
Patterns and Books:
Bodice Pattern - McCall's 7885
Angela Clayton's blog posts: angelacostumery.com/dewdrop-s...
Skirt Pattern - "Period Costume for Stage and Screen 1800-1909" by Jean Hunnisett
Other Videos in this Series:
🧵Make Better Cosplay Using Historical Research - • Make Better Cosplay Us...
🧵Sewing Fluffy Victorian Underwear - • Sewing Fluffy Victoria...
🧵Fitting a Victorian Corset - • Fitting a Victorian Co...
🧵Making a Victorian Corset (1860s) - • Making a Victorian Cor...
🧵Making a Corset Cover - • Making a Corset Cover ...
🧵Making an 1860s Hoop Skirt - • Making an 1860s Hoop S...
🧵Making Petticoats for Historically Inspired Alice in Wonderland Cosplay - • Making Petticoats for ...
🧵Making a Bum Roll - • Fix a Flat Butt || Mak...
Skip Ahead:
0:00 Intro
1:34 Pattern
4:46 Cutting
5:26 Sewing
5:43 Pleating the Skirt (and handy elastic waist trick to keep your pleats from running away from you)
6:18 The Struggle to Put on Clothes
6:55 Fitting the Bodice
10:56 Fitting the Skirt
14:26 Alterations
14:50 New House Anxiety
15:59 Potential Sad News
16:44 Outro
#costube #hannahalexanderartwork #historicallyaccuratedisney
Insta: / minjalinjee
All music is from Epidemic Sound:
“Memories of the Green Valley” - Lars Meyer 
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Im here for the costume....but also for baby bat always talking to you.
Haha that’s the same reason my bf watches my videos
The dress is taking shape and it's gorgeous! I'm in love with those sleeves. Good luck with setting up your space, take all the time you need. If you're concerned about the next video, you can just upload twenty minutes of Baby Bet and call it a day, just saying.😉 Patiently waiting for the actual dress in all its glory.
Thank you! Haha I would totally do a 20 minute Baby Bat video, she would get so annoyed with me following her around with a camera all day
That's your first mock-up of the dress? That's remarkable. Love boning that runs from center front to encompass the collar.
Best of luck for the move and move in. I worked in an office with mice. Let's just say I prefer my rodents housed in cages. All good thoughts for the exterminator and the contract work.
See you when you get back... all else fails you could always do an update vlog?
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
I think we may have timed it so I can get quite a bit done before we move so if I have to take a break it should only be a week off! And yes definitely prefer rodents in cages haha, I’m hoping that the cats will scare off any living mice that try to make a new home in our house 😅
Me, over here, watching this playlist to get ideas/construction visuals on the current outfit I'm working on: 👀📝
Baby bat comes on screen: 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Moving always messes with the “sewjo”. Hopefully you new studio with be completed quickly for you but be completely safe as well. Don’t stress over the dress creation. We will be here to see when it’s completed. Health and safety come first from a healthcare worker. 🥰
Aw well thank you so much I really appreciate it! 🥰I’m just going to keep sewing until we’re all packed up haha and then I guess I will get a forced break if my studios not done which isn’t the worst thing. Please also take care of yourself! Being in healthcare sounds like a nightmare right now, I hope you’re staying safe too
Absolutely LOVE the whole shape and silhouette of the dress! Can’t wait to see it in the fashion fabric 💕💕
I adore the mock up dress! It’s going to be stunning in the actual fabric.
My 1980s prom dress had a similar pointed waist and full skirt vibe! Little did we know we were historical. 😊
Omg I had never even connected 80s to 1860s but they are really similar!
Good luck with the new house! Hopefully you will get to set your studio soon and I'm sure it will be worth the effort 😁 Will be looking forwards to see the dress once it's ready!
Thank you! I’m sure it will be worth it, I’m super excited to get everything together!
Take all the time you need to have a safe, clean, happy place to sew! Seeing in less than optimum conditions is miserable and leads to frustration and sadness in my experience. Best to wait when you can only be frustrated by the project rather than the place you are attempting to create in. I will be excited for your videos no matter when they come out.
Thank you so much for the boost of positivity! I think we might have timed it so that i may only have to take a week off so I will be so grateful if that actually works out! Thank you for being here and always saying such kind things 🥰
So this is funny… I’m making this same dress with this pattern and using a blue velvet from my high school curtains! Lol
Slightly terrified by the mice. I hope it goes well! And tornadoes, too. Maybe you should have done Dorothy instead?
Haha the mice definitely freaked me out more than the tornado sirens, we live on top of a hill so unlikely to get to us! Dorothy is actually not a bad idea for a future project tho ...
I’m so glad I found your channel, I just binged all of your Alice videos so far I love how it’s looking
I’m glad you found me too! Thank you for watching! 🥰
I just saw this in Joanne’s fabric store yesterday! While looking through their book! And I want to make it so bad 😭 yours looks so good ugh I wish I could make one 🥹💗💗
Aw thank you, you should give it a try!
I will be using this pattern to make a big poofy goth princess dress. I like Angel Clayton’s work and this will be my first time using one of her patterns. And my first time making some historical inspired too. Your Alice looks so good, even in the mock-up stage. Also, please give your cat some extra pets from me
haha I will definitely give her extra pets and love from you! 😊 and thank you! do you have an instagram or anywhere you post progress? I'd love to see your goth princess dress!
Your work is amazing! I'm looking forward to seeing the dress when it's ready, but please take the time you need to settle in. I love your cat's tiny meows :)
Thank you so much for the compliment and the understanding, I really appreciate both! She has the cutest meows!! It warms my heart every time haha
That mice story just kept getting worst, omg ^^' I hope everything goes well! That aside, that mock-up is looking really good, I actually like the poofyness of the sleeve, but I'm a sucker for that sweet sweet poof XD
It was so bad omg we started it like oh yeah this is doable then just found more and more mice rip definitely glad we decided to get someone else to do the rest 😅 thank you! I love poofy sleeves I just want it to be a little more drapery than gravity defying because the thickness of the velvet will also add some heft to it
Good luck with the setting up of your new place. Can't wait to see your new sewing studio.
Thank you! And me either haha
It's always hard to imagine how oddly shaped pieces of paper can became such a beautiful dress.! The mockup looks so gorgeous, just wow. Excited to see the real thing. Thank you so much for sharing!
So sorry to hear about the rat problem D: Hopefully it is easily fixed!
thank you! and yess flat patterning is so cool it feels like magic when it turns out right! and I think we found someone to remove the rest of the studio walls and ceiling, so thankfully that will be taken care of soon!
The shape is coming together so beautifully! I really like that you're using fabric that's already in your stash and not buying new fabric when you have a good option already at home. Good for your purse and good for the environment :)
thank you! definitely trying to work through my stash, good for purse, environment, and storage space haha
This video just answered why my McCall's 7071 sleeve doesn't have the shape of the photo and just falls flat. I will try to make an undersleeve and resew the cuffs.
... so i originally found your corset video because I'm making the same one for my wedding dress.....which happens to have the EXACT same silhouette as the dress you're making lol so THATS actually super reassuring lol
yay I'm glad this could be useful! also congratulations on the wedding!
That mock-up is gorgeous and I love seeing the process of figuring out what needs to be adjusted. Hope everything goes well with your studio it sounds like A Lot to deal with. No worries about taking a break, though! Life stuff isn’t always convenient but it’s important! Take all the time you need.
Thank you! Im trying to get as much done before we’re all packed up so hopefully I won’t have to take more than a week or two off 😊
This looks so good! Can't wait to see the final! =D
thank you!
I’ve watched like 15 of your videos in a week. Just ordered this pattern, it’s exactly the bodice type I’ve been looking for for my wedding dress.
Aw haha well thank you!
I've just found your channel, and I love your videos! I know you're channel is gonna get a lot more popular one day!
aw thank you so much, that's really sweet!
I am surprised that your video is the only one that I could find on using the M7885 pattern. The mockup turned out great and I am sure the bodice will be stunning!
Yeah I was also surprised I found so few reviews and photos of it being made! It makes a really cute gown i would have thought it would be more popular
Excellent work! Detailed & elegant.
Thank you so much!
Thinking hopeful and best thoughts for you. I so enjoy your videos and look forward to them starting up again.
thank you! I think we might have timed the move so I won't have to take more than a week if at all!
THIS IS GORGEOUS!
thank you!
You are fabulous, your work is fabulous, and I love Baby Bat 🖤🖤
Thank you so much this is so sweet! I also always appreciate baby bat love ❤️🥰
As always, it was a delight to watch the work. :) I'm sorry to hear about your mouse problem. I can commiserate a bit with the no sewing space. We recently got new floors that took about three days which meant that sewing was all I was wanting to do at the time. I ended up mostly sewing a shirt by hand though which is cool. The mock up looks amazing. :) 👏
Thank you! And omg we moved in over a week ago and have had the hardest time getting our contractor to actually show up just for measurements so who knows when I’ll have a sewing space again 😭 thankfully (I guess lol) there are so many other renovations that need to be done I’ve kept busy with lots of wall painting!
whaattt??? That´s so pretty, I want oneee omg, I´m willing to make something like this
thank you!
This looks really nice. I laughed when you commented about artists and squigly lines. We are doing a Powerpuff Girls cosplay with some friends and looking at the cartoons their dresses are just… tubes. In cartoon world it totally works but in the real world it's actually not great :P
It's always interesting to see people make adjustments to garments because I can always tell when there is a problem with my mockups but I can never tell what the fix is. Watching people who know their stuff is good for picking up what to do when similar stuff happens (or not so similar but still). What do you do with the mockup fabric afterward? Skirt panels are always great to make smaller things but panels in a bodice or sleeves are usually too small to do much.
I reuse skirt panels like you said, to make smaller things, but with bodices I just throw them in with scrap fabric to chop up for things like bum rolls 😊
I'm making this exact same dress from that pattern only I want to make a polyester blend under skirt and a chiffon overlay would I just cut the same amount of panels from each fabric?
Damn your mock-up is looking so gorgeous already! Can’t wait for the next part of the series (but of course, take as much time as you need! Moving always sucks, not to mention your rodent problem :( )
Ah thank you! Things seem to be moving along so hopefully I won’t have to take too long of a break 😊
The mock-up looks amazing! I can’t wait to see it finished 😍 I was hoping I could get your opinion. I want to make the McCall’s dress you use in this video. Do you think I would need to make a corset to make/wear that dress. Context- I am trying to make my own version of the dress from Labyrinth and I only have two months to make it max and would actually like to get it done in one if possible. I’m sure your really busy so I get if you can’t respond, but I appreciate you either way 🥰❤️
Thank you so much! And ah no worries I'd love to help if I can! I think if you put boning into the bodice and you aren't trying to reduce your waist much or at all then you should be fine without a corset. If you want more than like a half inch, maybe an inch max, of waist reduction you'd be better off fitting the dress to the corset. Either way I think boning is a must with this pattern! Adding boning channels to a lining layer would probably be the least visible way to include boning. Hope that helped! If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to ask!
@@moth.faerie this was super helpful thank you! I think I do really want a very exaggerated look so looks like I’m going to try my hand at corsetry (I’ve never tried it, but I loved your video on it too) I’ll have to try to get ahold of the corset pattern you use ☺️ I wish I could make the dress and then the corset in case I don’t have enough time, but that’s not really how that works 😂
@@NatyRocke if you don't think your bust measurement will change much with the corset you might be able to make the dress without finished seams and take it in over the corset! as long as there isn't any beading or lace spanning the seams it should be a fairly simple alteration 😊
@@moth.faerie that’s awesome advice thank you! I’ll totally do that!
My husband did remediation for his parents company, and he said ouch when I told him about your 🐁 problems.
haha thankfully they're all gone now (i think) and we have two cats to hopefully scare any new ones away?
@@moth.faerie one can only hope
Oh lord, the ceiling mice! That's terrifying. I did enjoy this video, it's always fun and enlightening to see the process.
Thank you! And literally the worst thing to find in the ceiling besides... live mice I guess lol
How many metres of fabric did you need? I ordered 6 m for this pattern…i hope thats enough…
Looks stunning !!! Thank you!!
tbh i'm not sure, but it should be listed on the back of the pattern
Some women are uppers I am of side walls the darts would be ,or doubled, yours fair, up the dart ends there were 11 girls where patterns even in a same family
Well, t is a dissappointment to me, I was looking forward to seeing the dress so much! But I wish the best of luck with the house!
Ah well sorry to disappoint! I’m trying to get things moving quickly so hopefully not a long hiatus if at all! Thank you for the good luck wishes 🥰