Hello lovelies,

some of you might know that I am collecting vintage sewing magazines and sewing patterns. I mentioned it in this post where I shared all of the items I had collected so far.
I was browsing through etsy for new ideas and I found this super cute sewing pattern from the 50s for a dress. It has a scalloped neckline, sits tightly at the waist and has these cute pleats at the skirt part.
 

And I am a very weak person and bought the pattern. But my fingers were itching and I wanted to do a dress now and not wait for it to be shipped from New Zealand to Europe.

And so it happened that I did my own version of this dress. It was the first time I made kimono sleeves but they worked out really well.

These are my two back pieces with the darts sewn.

Same with my front part. I should have ironed the whole fabric beforehand but I am just super lazy.

The secret to successfull scallop sewing is to use really tiny stitches. A lesson hard learned.

To be honest I really liked doing kimono sleeves because they look good and you don't have to set in sleeves. Hooray.

And here the dress with the pleats. I made the mistake to cut a lot of fabric for the skirt and the three pleats were super deep and I had to re-pleat the skirt a lot before I liked it.


I did the zip after that but forgot to take pictures of course. Afterwards I sewed down the neckline.

As for the hem, lazy me just folded it back once. Shame on me.

The last thing I did was to add a cute little button at the back to hide the fact that the zip I had was too short. And I didn't want to order or move my bum to the nearest fabric store.

And that was it! I think it really worked out well.
After only two weeks my pattern arrived and I will definitely make another dress but with the original pattern (and different fabric) and I am super excited to compare the dress to my pattern.

Here are some worn pictures of the finished dress.









Hair by Pascal Prosser from Schernhorst. 

How do you like the dress?

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

my sister and I met up for a tour through an open-house event in Vienna but we didn't expect all the people who were also interested in the houses and the queue was massive. We therefore decided to skip the event and instead walk through Vienna's first district and do some pictures.
And these pictures really turned out very instagram-y.

My blouse and skirt are from Liz Lisa, the bag from Primark and the shoes from Deichmann.
I made the little hairbow myself. Remember my video?







As I sat on these stones I lost my balance and almost toppled over. My sister managed to capture the funny moment.



Vienna really does have a lot of nice corners.

Afterwards we went for tea and cake to the recently opened Ferrari Pasticceria cafe.
The food was a bit pricey but very good.

 Taking pictures of your food is very important, haha. My sister had a very sugary almond dessert.

  My bread was good but a bit cold and too small.



I had a white chocolate-rasperry cake with coconut flakes at the bottom. Super yummy.



The next posts will be sewing and costume related again, I promise.
If you follow me on Instagram you always get the newest updates on my sewing projects.

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

I am super late with my monthly post about the Viennese lolita teekränzchen because it is already October. But I just can't seem to do everything on time with a full time job, commuting for 2h each day and 7h of sleep. Any help is very appreciated.

So last month we went to a small cupcake store in Vienna because we were only 5 people attending, the rest had no time or were in Finland for the big tea party. The location was really tiny but also super cute and had a huge variety of cupcakes. The server was also very kind and we were alone in the shop most of the time.



I picked a plum cinnamon and a raspberry white chocolate cupcake and both were very delicious. The cake part was fluffy and tasty and the cream part tasted of fresh curd with cream. I am a big fan of using curd cream instead of butter cream because most of the time the cupcakes only taste of butter and nothing else.
I for once totally forgot to do any outfit pictures at all and only have a few selfies.


I wore an Infanta top and a skirt by petite fille.

All the best,


Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

I attended Connichi in Kassel again this year and unlike the years before it was really relaxing and enjoyable. The fact that we arrived on Thursday and left on Monday and we had a big apartment near the convention really helped. The train ride only took about 6 hours, except for a few Deutsche Bahn moments...how can a train company just be so messed up?

We left Vienna at 9am and arrived at 5pm in Kassel. This time we didn't have huge underwear or wig parts that needed to be transported, lucky us!

After we checked into our Hotel we took a stroll around the inner city. Kassel is famous for their brothers Grimm Museum and we even found a statue of the brothers.
I am not sure why but they look more like lovers than brothers to me?

Friday was our first convention day and I wore my Hungary from the 7 years war outfit. The last time I wore it was for a photo shooting with L. and Greencat. Remember?

Look at M. photo bombing us.

These selfies are actually the only pictures I have of this outfit. I totally forgot to ask Blur of color for some pictures. Oh well, next time maybe.
After the convention we went to an Italian Restaurant with Z. and her girlfriend A. and the food was so amazing.

Appetizer

Pizza with roast beef

Tiramisu for dessert.

If I visit Kassel again, I will definitely stop and visit this restaurant again.

On Saturday I was so tired that I took a nap before dressing up, therefore we arrived really late for the convention.
I wore the special costume I was sewing for a month on every weekend and every day after work. It was super exhausting but I think it paid out. There will be an extra post with a few construction notes and pictures, but I was too stressed to really to do a lot of pictures.
May I present to you: A Disney and historical inspired version of Elsa from Frozen, or as I call it rococo robe a la francaise Elsa pain in the butt.





Blur of color made some pictures of this costume and therefore I will keep the bad mobile phone pictures of the dress to myself and wait for the real pictures.
I don't think we were at the convention for more than three hours before leaving again and getting in more comfortable clothing.


Then we went to dinner with Blur of colour and some of his friends at a Mexican restaurant and let me tell you, the churros I ate there were divine. They were so good that I totally forgot to take some pictures.

Nachos as an appetizer

Enchilada Clasicas as a main dish

The portions were huge and I was so stuffed at the end of the evening. My strawberry mojito was very strong but the food took the sting of the alcohol.

On Sunday there was an Angelic Pretty Tea party and I was allowed to attend. I say allowed because the organizers picked the girls who were allowed to attend beforehand and you had to send in pictures of yourself in Lolita. That was very weird because that was a first. Usually you just had to buy a ticket for the tea party and could automatically join.
The only rule was that you had to wear a main piece from Angelic Pretty and I decided to go with my purple Dramatic rose dress.








 The tea party started at 3pm which was quite late for a convention that ended at 5pm.

The buffet at the tea party

The food was actually not bad at all, I just couldn't finish my cupcake. It was so creamy and rich.

I sat at a table with a few other German lolitas and I don't know why but I felt super uncomfortable. It took me more than 10 years to get comfortable with my own lolita community so spending a few hours with random strangers was really not great for me. I wanted to leave after the group pictures but then stayed for the raffle and that was a good choice because I won one of the three Angelic Pretty sponsored packages. It's a sleeping mask and a small tote bag.

Everybody also got a little goody bag with folders and postcards.



There was an Angelic Pretty quiz and I didn't even try to answer it as I am not a die-hard Angelic Pretty fan (anymore. I was until maybe 2009).

Sorry, German only

The rest of the evening I spend in bed, eating pizza rolls and watching true crime series.
Then Monday at 10am we left again for Vienna.

M. and I decided not to attend Connichi next year but we really want to try and go to Dokomi 19.

All the best,

Auris Lothol