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So the hottest bloggers at Misfits Vintage and Helga Von Trollop and Vintage Vixen are all dressed up as brides this week! Inspiration! While searching for vintage chubbies a while ago I found this picture of Dutch War Brides! No white dresses for them! Non the less! The chubby cuteness is in full swing! How cute are the couple with the fur coat on the left??? Swooony lovey swoony! And there is our chubby on the right mugging for the camera like a TRUE DIVA! What a CATCH! I so want the hair! If you stare at the pic long enough you spot more chubby, gorgeous ladies! ******Sewing Project Update***** I am doing a swap for a painting! I am making a dress for her and she is making a painting for moi! The dress is a 50's shirtwaist, done up like a Wednesday Addams dress! It's quite a vexing pattern! Argh! I think I might have learned a cool pattern design trick from it though! It has built in facing! When it's done I can post some pics of it. Maybe I can get the lovely recipie...

swallows carry a tape measure and needle and thread It's done! It's all my design, drawn and inked by my friend Sherry at her shop!  The tape measure represents my belief and understanding I have gained from the Fat Acceptance/Fatshion Movement from bloggers like Not Blue at Al l, The Rotund ,  Lips, Hips, and Fatshion Tips ,  Fuck Yeah Chubby Girls about being BEAUTIFUL at any size. Any way you measure yourself with this tape measure, it reads a  positive word about yourself. I thought of this concept in the car on my way home from work one day. I wanted to make an art project out of it; but then thought, "hey you can get this inked!" ouch! i made my outfit though! half way! linework done  I have wanted the old school swallows for a long time. I thought they would be cool ;mixing my love of vintage tattoo with sewing. Swallows represent a lot of things, for me they mean being free or liberated. They were perfect to pair with sewing because being able to create...

 I was at Joanne Fabrics last week and spotted this cute Route 66 Fabric by Alexander Henry.   I bought some green bottomweight linen and made the Route 66 Dress     A car on my booboids  It's my standard pattern that is identical to the Monster Dress I made. This time I made bottom hem ruffles and a big BOW! A bird, a plane, NO it's SUPER PSYCHO! I think I look hot in green! For the ruffles I used my narrow hemmer foot and my ruffler foot. It was pretty easy once you got the tension and stitch width correct for the ruffler. I am sure it's not double fold hemmed in some spots because that narrow hem foot is a bastard, but if it starts to fray...hey I got a new bottle of fray check. LOL Bows are easy to make! I can make a tutorial video for them...they are all over the internet though. I think bows are the cutest and old school cute and flirty! STAY GLAM!!

If you watched the sewing video for Simplicity 2247, You saw that I used some Robert Kauffman fabric to try out the bodice. I only had a yard of this cute little playing card print, but now It's become a HOT-ASS DRESS! My 10th wedding anniversay was last Thursday, so we hopped on the DC metro and went to the National Art Museum. AWESOME! These two pictures with my Jackalope friend are in the sculpture garden! I am in love with the pockets! My Man wore the red dice shirt I made him. together we were very "Vegas." Poker and Dice LOL A lady asked us if we had ever been on TV (one of the guards at the museum) Weird question, right? Ok, so what the hell is this dress? HA! That's a trick question! The top is Simplicity 2247, the pockets are my own design, and the skirt is MY SUSPENDER SKIRT! I murdered it! Chopped it up and put it on this bodice! Muhahahah! I like it better in this form actually! Pretty flowers...and a Psycho awwwww You like my pug purse? LOL And here's...

<br><br><br><br><br>Theis This video will show you how I took Simplicity 2247 and changed it to be a BUTTON FRONT dress.  I used another Simplicity pattern (3700) with an actual button front to make the alterations to my dress. You can use any old button front pattern to do this. All the second pattern is used for is to trace onto the existing pattern the extra room needed for the button front to overlap. Once the new overlap- piece is added, and the dress is buttoned up, the center fronts of your dress will line up exactly as they are on the original pattern, keeping the V neckline. TAHDAH! It's pretty simple!  Feel free to ask questions!! Summary of steps: 1. Locate a secondary button front pattern piece for tracing 2. Locate the center front of your pattern 3.  Line up the two pattern pieces Center front markers 4. Draw in the extra material (for me it was about 1.25") needed for the button overlap o...

I have long been a warrior in the war of SELF EXPRESSION, INDIVIDUALISM, SELF ACCEPTANCE. Whenever I see a person who is being put down because of their body, be it tattoos, piercings, or weight, I ALWAYS get very passionate about defending them. The blog Sewing on the Edge had a great series of posts that I commented on today, and the blog author,Barbara, has been supportive of my opinions and has paid tribute to me HERE Check her out. She is a sweetie. She originally posted about an article where the author dictates their own opinion on what Senior Citizens should wear. Which, of course, is RIDICULOUS.She doesn't allow them to wear bathing suits!!! My tattoos are LIVING, BREATHING works of art. They are on living flesh, and a part of moi. I have designed them because of what they represent and mean to me. And they are for ME. For instance, this one reminds me every day that inside every single one of us is a skeleton. No matter what shape we have or face we have, we all are stri...

FUCK YEAH FAT GIRL SAILOR DRESS!!!! Ever since the fucking dawn of time I have wanted a sailor dress!!!!!! MINE!!! MINE!!!!  Made with my pattern. It's the same bodice as the comic dress except with a new v-neck and the simple skirt pattern I always use for my dresses. It's my first sailor collar, not PERFECT, but pretty damn good. Dress Material: linen with embroidered silver anchors from Jo Ann Fabrics Collar Material: White polylinen from Jo Ann Fabrics Collar Trim: Wrights red rick rack Bow: made from red quilting cotton Belt: made from red quilting cotton Sleeve Trim: Wrights DF bias tape in red Sexy booty and hot rack: 33 years in the making I am so excited about this sailor dress. I WILL be making more!! STAY GLAM!

Here is how you take an empire waist princess seam dress (bodice + skirt) and remove the waist seam to get a total of 4 pattern pieces. Hey, you have one less seam to sew! How cool are my rat rod pinup girl posters in my sewing room? LOL I also share my SECRET material that makes the best cutting/work surface in the sewing room! For an overview of why this pattern alteration is done: see my previous post STAY GLAM!

Psycho Sue loves Polka Dots! Why? Because she learned her Grandma liked them. Enough Said. I know my dead Mema sews with me.  I sew on her sewing table and use her old buttons and zippers. She loved to sew and I miss her. Anyhoo. Here's the 50s Housewife Dress! It's my pattern except for the neckline. I copied that from a 1950s Advance sewing pattern A very tricky insert goes into the square neck. First you put the facing in the neckline and hand stitch it down, Then you put the insert in and hand stitch it down too. I did a row of topstitch instead. I think I spent 4 hours on this damn insert LOL A lady in the fabric store made a big fuss over me and told me she liked my style, then asked if I was going any place special. "Nope, I dress like this every day!" Heeeehehehehe   My hair is rolled in a rat in the back with 2 rolls on top. I kind of like this with a black belt better than the red belt.KA-RA-TAY!!! STAY GLAM!

So yeah, it wasn't strep it was some dumb virus Thanks to those that worried about moi. It's good to know that I am loved <3 <3. But it took a week to go away, and once it was gone I went sewing crazy.I have 3 completed dresses to show everyone YAAAAY! So, the new project. I am taking Simplicity 2247, the "Newspaper Dress" and modifying the pattern too look like...  ADORABLE 40s Princess seam dresses! I have been in love with the ones in 40s Sears catalogs FOREVER. So now is the time to do it! AND show you how! More examples of what I am after:   There are 3 things that need to be done to 2247 to get this 40s look.  1. You have to make the bodice and dress ONE piece with no waist seam. This is a merge done on paper. 2. Have to make it a button down front instead of a zipper back. This takes some work... 3. Make any neckline or collar you want. I haven't picked one yet. I might just leave it as a V neck to start. Here is the first video; where I explain how t...

Hey babies. I have strep. Yay. And while I had strep I wailed out this guitar solo. Pretty Hot. Lesson One: "Glamour shall not be repressed by GERMS, Hell No!" I am wearing my Vampire dress (see sidebar for photo). It was a dark stage so you have to just watch my shadow and listen to the RAWK. I do have a dress completed; and pics are coming up soon. I am wearing it to work today with a GIANT head bow. Take that germs!