I have been admiring all the Mid-Autumn festival mooncake packaging that is in the Chinese supermarkets right now. I decided to digitize an embroidery design with bunnies and a moon to go on a bag. I switched tracks in the middle to put the design on an 18th century pocket, but I’m planning on re-visiting the bag after this.
I took photos as I was assembling my sampler so here’s a quick blog post on how I assemble 18th century pockets.
With the belt done, it was time to reassemble the skirt. I took the belt and laid it over the skirt back, making sure to line up the back and front belts so that the sides matched.
So… I wasn’t going to post a skirt tutorial because it isn’t really necessary to re-make the skirt; the one from the official Disney costume is really nice as it is! But, I did modify mine, so I figured I’d show what I did in case anyone else wants to do it too.
For the Grub’s costume, I modified the skirt to replace the belt so that it matched the top’s fabric, and I put in a full length grass skirt.
The brood is super into Moana this year, so it made picking a holiday card theme pretty easy. It’s the first year I made all four costumes from scratch though, so it took a while. Thankfully they were all fairly simple.
Photography by the always amazing, Jeff Kuo. Photoshop and graphic design by Doris and Cheryll.
Sorry for the delay getting the rest of this tutorial up! Getting our holiday card done ate my brain for the last 2 months. If you missed it, part 1 of this tutorial is here. Ok, so back to making Moana’s top…
I made the top as a tube top with a shirred back piece.
