Sewing Stuff - Blues Skirt Part 2

So because Monday was a holiday I actually had spare time to sit down and start my sewing project, something that I've been looking forward to ever since I made the first post about it. I put some fun swing music on and decided to get started. So here we go, step by step the construction of The Blues Skirt.
(Complete with hipster camera filter!)

Step 1: I laid out my fabric and folded it over, wanting to cheat a little and use the fold part as the bottom section so that I wouldn't have to hem it. I figured it would look cleaner this way and would probably lay straighter.

Scars and Secrets

"Scars are just stories in sexy places"

This is what a friend of mine said to me recently and I have to say that it has really stuck in my brain for a few reasons.

Sewing Stuff - Blues Skirt Part 1

One of the things that I've noticed that comes with doing Burlesque is that you tend to only use your sewing skills for costumes and the occasion hemming of pants/skirts. This Christmas though my trusty sidekick (aka my boyfriend) bought me a sewing dress form and a gift card to dressew and while the tempation to use it for show stuff was there (wooo totally free fancy costumes!!) I decided to ONLY use it for/on myself.

By this I mean I want to use it on things that I want to either learn how to sew or things I will wear in my day to day life. Some examples are:

 swing trousers

these adorable dresses (I don't want a moose pattern but I love the style of the collar and the bust line of the second one)
and of course the one I've chosen for my first project:

The Blues Skirt.

A few weeks back a friend of mine sent me a video of a blues/swing dance competition, and while the first thing I did was get inspired from the amazing dance moves I also found myself loving the outfit that the one lady was wearing. I re-watched the video and took screen caps and decided that was not only a very cute style (the buttons are adorable!), looked easy, but most of all the skirt looked super comfortable to dance in.
Which is something I like to keep in mind when buying/making clothes for myself, I do a lot of swing and blues dancing and nothing looks more hilarious than doing the 'i need to adjust my hemline or bra' dance while you're out and about.

So off I went to dressew and bought myself some fabric and buttons, originally I wanted to get a nice dark blue jean material but none of it was stretchy enough for my liking. And if I plan on dancing in this skirt it's going to need some give to it, the 'adjusting hem' dance is bad but the 'I split open my skirt' dance is even worse. So instead of getting jean material I wound up with a nice true blue stretch material that I think will work just as well, I also got some white buttons.

In total the materials cost me a whopping 15$. Woaaaah big spender right?

Next up will be the actual construction of the skirt which I hope to do either this weekend or next. So stay tuned to see what the results are!

Podcast Update

Newest podcast up: Winter Stories. Guest starring David Quast and Andrew Harron!

(Don't forget that for more updates you can look for Voodoo Pixie on Facebook, or follow Mama Fortuna on her overly esoteric blog.)

Stripped, Scared and Sacred: Ep.11 - Risky Business!

Updated the podcast once again, and noticed that I haven't been numbering them. Ooooops.

So! We're on episode 11 people and this time we are joined by the beautiful, talented and fellow spooky gal, Little Miss Risk! 
We discuss such things as growing up as the spooky girls in the neighbourhood, cat videos, horror movies, david bowie's penis puppet and much much more!

If you'd like to know more about Miss Risk please visit her blog which can be found here.

The Valiant

So I have a friend who is a fantastic photographer but is also a little strange, a few weeks ago he sent me a text message that just said "leave the 30th open for me".
Why?
"photoshoot."
Nothing else was said, not the idea or the costumes or the location. This is one of the strange but fun things about doing photoshoots with this man, it certainly keeps you on your toes and forces you to adopt a somewhat carefree attitude because you have no idea where or what you will be doing or what you're going to look like.

In this case I wound up being naked and body painted in a sort of Ziggy Stardust style in a vintage Valiant car.

......have I mentioned lately that I love my life and friends?
:)

Warning, some photos NSFW

Love that Lovecraft Part 2

Part 2 of our discussion on Lovecraft!

This time we are joined by Andrew Harron (aka co-writer/producer and star of 'An Evening with Professor Byron Price') as well as Spectral Theatre alumni and all round Lovecraft know it all, David Quast.

Warning: Lots of foul language and spikes of loud laughter