Week One turned to Month One

Well so much for a doll project a week..lol. It took me longer than expected to complete my first project. A family situation came up, well that is my boyfriends family, his dad just passed away so I was trying to help out where I could. That and just been a little unmotivated.

Anyway back to the challenge at hand. So in my last post my week one project was a Project Runway challenge entitled "Walking in a Winterwonderland". I have finally completes Zhara's outfit and would like to share a few of the out comes. Oh and to note I drafted all the patterns by hand for everything, they are not commercial or enlarged patterns taking from anyone.

Completed outfit head to toe made by myself...er well accept the wig, that was a nice faux fur wig that I found in my wig stash that I had totally forgotten about. The colors I chose are Zhara's favorites: grey, black and pink...I think she looks quite good in them. The outfit itself consists of Blouse, Vest, Skirt, Arm Warmers and Leggings. The accessories to complete the ensemble Belt, Boots, and Ear Muffs.  And on to the details of the challenge. 

One part of the challenge was to use 3 different textures of fabrics. In this photo you can see that I did in fact meet the requirements. I used a nice pink minky faux fur, gunmetal textured satin, dark grey knit and a chevron in scale plaid with all three colors combined. 

And now a closer look at the Accessories that I made for this challenge:

Starting from the top, a set of Earmuffs made from the same fabric as her skirt. I originally was going to make a hat with the fabric instead, but as you can see she currently is wearing some huge ears. I thought at first well I could put some holes in the hat for her ears..then I was like duh why not earmuffs! The band has craft wire on either side of the band and I cut out stiff felt circles and wrapped the fabric around it while stuffing a little poly filling inside to make it rounded. I think they came out wonderfully.

Next down is the belt. A very easily made item, I took a strip of scraps from my vinyl bin sewed it into a belt and added a lovely intricate silver clasp (clasp was purchased not made by me). This is the same belt shown in the first photo around the vest. In this close up you can also see the nice texture of the satin that I used, it kinda continues the texture look from the plaid. Like a stipling striped effect. 

And finally an outfit can't be complete without proper footwear. These were fun to make and my wonderful boyfriend cut the soles out for me while I was finishing the upper part. From the same scraps of vinyl matching the belt the boots were created taking some of the faux fur from the vest as accents. And as you notice her boots are open toed, well of course I couldn't hide those gorgeous clawed feet. I've seen the open toed style boots around in different trends so I naturally thought these would be perfect for her. They have a snap closure in the back, which eventually for future boot projects I'll find some tiny zippers to try out. 

And here she is without the vest, to show off the details of the blouse. The blouse features a slouched collar, front horizontal pin tucks that also carry over into the tops of the sleeves. 

And that is all folks for this weeks (er month's) challenge. I hope you like the end result and please feel free to leave any comments below.  Now on to the next!

Note: I'll try to go back to the previous post and add in those sketches that inspired me to create this outfit.