Friday, May 30, 2014

Hrist's Gown Part I

Well, crafters ADD hit me hard, I started a new project -_- I've been drafting up a new outfit for Hrist over the past week, maybe a bit more, I lost track, but it looks to be another new gown for her. Hopefully it won't turn out to gaudy, I've got some nice ideas in mind for this one. Not idea if my skill levels able to process what I have in mind though X_X

Pattern Drafting.
I've got a pretty solid idea of what I'm planning to make. So currently I am drafting out fitting pattern pieces, this project might be big, as I have currently over 20 parts on draft at the moment, which needs some alterations and adjustments to be made over the next few days...
Bought the fabric already for this gown. And am contemplating adding some custom hand embroidery to this project as well. I'll see how things go before I opt in for that task...

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Hrist - Armor Work III

Almost finished with one of the gauntlets. Haven't had a lot of time to work on these yet. Seems to be shaping up rather well so far.
Few more coats and final coats should have it sealed and done :) Hoping to have it all completed with in the next week or so. Depends on how much time I have available. I've also gotten side tracked with drafting up designs for another gown for Hrist, as well as finishing up a photo story that will hopefully be finished soon as well...

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Arizona Dollfie Meet - May 2014

What a fun day at the monthly dollmeet in AZ hosted by kymaera!




What a huge turn-out, lots of dollfies this month with one of the usual not being able to make it, or three more dolls would have made it for sure.

Hrist was given a new camera! Special thanks to creationdss87!
Hrist got to test out a motorcycle, I think she was the only one at the meet qualified to ride one actually. ;)

Biggest shocker was Hrist socializing and making new friends at this meet, seen here with Mitsuki .  I think she's been watching a bit to much My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic though, Hrist once told me she could really relate to Twilight Sparkle, except she doesn't write Lidia a progress letter... anyway moving on from that. :P

The meet was a great fun time!


Can't wait for the next meet! :)

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Embroidery Work

Lots of fun working on this stuff. Looks like total crap and epic fail after I saw these photos, must keep telling myself it's a learning process -_- At this point i'm starting to get that sick feeling I'll stick with the original crappy non embroidered version I made and chuck this current one. Hopefully I can stay focused to finish this one up to even make it to that point though X_X
The project was looking pretty decent here. Lost track of how much floss I've burned through on this.

Then I saw this photo and cringed X_X Hopefully it looks better once it's all sewn up X_X But I dunno. The top area will have some goldwork added onto it, as well as the base, I'll use my oldschool favorite gold trim for that part, might shine it up some I hope. Next time I do stringy stuff I'll use pearl purl for it. If only I could find a place out here that sells it, so I can see exactly what size I need. Seems to be sold overseas mainly X_X
Might be time to draft up a new gown for Hrist here soon with some embroidery >_>

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Embroidery and Gauntlets

Spent some time recently resuming work on Lidia's V2 outfit. I decided to give embroidery a whirl. Kind of an addicting craft. I rather enjoyed it. Till I saw it in these photos X_X Now I'm not so sure...
The new collar I made had be redesigned with an entire new pattern which seemed to have fit even better then my old collar pattern.
I plan to try at least one more embroidery project if it's worth the amount of time involved in the process of making this.


In other news...
Hrist's Gauntlets arrived for the second time. Excited to open the package, only to find one of the gauntlets busted again, this time it was worse. This is the second time.... I'm not sure what's going on with Shapeways quality control team. I'm just at a loss for words at the moment. I am not going to bother contacting support again, since one of the gauntlets turned out perfect, and the last attempt one was good too, so now I have two good ones, and two bad ones in separate orders o_O
Shapeways attempt 1
 This was the original gauntlets I received from Shapeways, you can see the flap in the right most area is cracked in half, They were happy to issue me a re-print of the entire model after their investigation of the matter.
Shapeways failed attempt 2
Their second attempt yielded one good gauntlet and one bad again. This time the bad one was worse then the last... it was cracked on the flap further down in the tumbler. What was different is there is huge gouges that run throughout the whole print, making me think there was an issue with the printing since they all run in the same dirrection...
I've done a lot of printing with Shapeways over the past year + and haven't encountered any type of problem like this before. They've always put out great quality. But it certainly makes me worry when I get around to working on Hrist's body armor... X_X
This gauntlets experiance also left me wondering if they even check model parts before they ship them out? The broken flap parts were not included in the back, suggesting they snapped in the tumbler.
At least they were kind enough to do a reprint however. :)

Photo of one of the 'good' prints
The photo above in the good print shows the flap fully intact and no scaring along the sides. Very weird that one printed fine, and passed through fine, and yet the other did not...

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Project Resumes

Been super swamped with real dead end job work lately. Haven't had much time for crafting lately. But I've recently had a chance to work  with Lidia's collar, and this time around doing a new ground-breaking project on it over the past few days. Ground-breaking for my skill level I should say. I'm hoping everything will workout for this as I definetly plan to use more of it in future projects... I'll have more information and photos to post hopefully by the end of the week if time permits it X_X right now it's just in the crude starting stages X_X
Still waiting on Hrist's new gauntlets to arrive. And wishing I had the time to get working on her bust armor.... -_- wtb a month off vacation! X_X