1.Find patterns
When starting a Lolita dress, you need to know about what pattern you want you dress. Not only are these magazines filled with beautiful pictures and inspiration but also patterns in the back of several different types of dresses from various Lolita online stores.
2.Prepare materials
Eyelet Cotton Fabric: It is a cotton material, very light-weight that often has stitched embellishments such as flower designs, what earns it the name of ‘Eyelet’ are the stitched ‘eyes’ in the design on the fabric. Most of the edges are rounded and circular, or sharp triangles.
You will need less then 1/4, but sometimes it’s a little practical to buy excess.
Rotary Cutter: It’s a miniature pizza-pie cutter, for fabric. A fool proof method for anyone who cannot cut a straight line. However, a pair of scissors will be just fine.
Pinking Sheers: Like Scissors with the exception that the ‘arms’ are notched with a triangle pattern that when cutting fabric place the designs on the fabric
Light-weight Cotton: Easily found at your local fabric store, it is light weight and when pressed to the skin, the fabric is see-through. Since it will be used as a base, the see-through factor does not matter. You will need less then 1/4, but sometimes it’s a little practical to buy excess.
Raw Edge: The term used to describe the side of the fabric that was cut, because it was separated the it will fray.
3.Method
- Using a measuring tape, form a circle around your wrist and slide the circle off of your hand. The measurement should be able to fit your wrist as well as getting off your hand with no problem.
- Transfer the measurement to your eyelet and add 5/8″ inches to be used later. Cut out your eyelet, as well as your cotton make sure to add the 5/8” to the cotton. If you do not have Pinking Sheers, at this time you will want to fold the cotton upwards so that it is not visible from behind your eyelet. Once folded up a single time, fold it over again to that the raw edge is now encased.
- Now align the eyelet and cotton together, matching up the top and bottom fold over–press if you wish–6mm. Sew together the eyelet with a basic straight stitch and cotton on the top side of the 6mm fold.
- Flip the cuff over, your cotton should be the material on the top, and eyelet on the bottom. Trim the cotton with the Pinking Sheers so that it is not visible behind the eyelet. Using the zigzag stitch and sew along the 5/8″ measurement, using Pinking Sheers cut along the zigzag line.
- Your wrist-cuff is completed, string out the length of your ribbon temporarily using a pin find a center and pin it to the back seam of your cuff. For a neat method, align the top of the ribbon to the stitch that affixed the fabrics together. Lengthen the ribbon to a size that pleases you, remembering that you will enough room to tie a ribbon and have extra room for the tails.
- Thread your needle folding the thread around the needle’s eye and pulling out the tail to 24″ cut here, and knot both pieces together. Run the needle and thread through the cotton bottom layer, this will affix the knot at the bottom where it is not visible, when pierced through the cotton run over the ribbon. Directly above your “entrance point” push the needle through both layers. Essentially, what you will be doing is forming a vertical equal sign that will attach the ribbon to your cuff. Do this until you ‘equal sign’ is at least 1/4 of an inch, once you have achieved this size, on the back of your cuff, run the needle through the equal sign and knot. You will want at least five of these equal signs on your cuff, so separate them out a 1 1/2″ or so.
- With your ribbon firmly in place tie a bow on the top of your cuff, aligning its center with your back seam. If you wish to place a pearl on the center of the bow, you may use your white thread to fix the pearl to the ribbon. If not, then thread your needle again with the thread color that matches your ribbon and sew the along the ’square’ or center of your ribbon make sure to catch all of your layers. Turn the tails and apply a thin coat of Clear Coat Nail polish to the raw edges so that the ribbon will not fray.
Thus, wrist cuffs of Lolita dress are made! Aren’t they cute? Then you can sew the other parts according to the similar method.
However, it seems like all of these are big projects for someone and need good patience. If you don't have good handwork and enough time to make a lolita dress by yourselves, with much voice aroud you, why not try to buy a lolita dress from online stores. Or now check the lolita promotion page to get discounted and quality lolita dress.
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