Malotke Sews

The MoPOP hosts an annual Fashionably Undead Halloween party. It's one night & has a costume contest, late night open exhibits, food & beverages, and DANCING. Also photo ops and other cool things like a scavenger hunt. This past year the theme was "The Goopening" and I was invited to be one of the Costume Contest Judges. It was a blast! First off, what a surreal experience. I loved seeing how creative the attendees were and everyone that entered the contest was excited to show off their work. We had a few items for judging criteria and there were a LOT of entrants. Overall, I loved seeing everyone embody their characters / costumes. The top five got to do a little runway walk to show the audience and then the winners were announced on stage as well. Since I love a good excuse to do a costume AND I was one of the costume judges I felt like I needed to make a fun goopy look for the evening. BUT it also had to be something that I could drive in, sit for a long period...

Finally adding more colors. While my style is somewhere between geometric print goth and forest witch, I have been in the process of trying to add a little more color into my closet. I wear a LOT of black and white patterns. While I absolutely adore my black and white section of my closet, I have been trying to introduce more colors into my wardrobe. Stripes for days. Pictured left is a small portion of my dresses & blazers section of my closet. While there is some classic black and white stripes and houndstooth happening, I have added some solid fun blazers to mix with all the patterns & prints. I've also managed to add some variety in colors to this portion. Slowly but surely I am figuring out my style and if after all of this my style is still very heavily geometric print goth, then it is what it is and I will rock it.  A lot of my closet comes from second hand stores. Sometimes I'll find something that I would want to tweak just a tiny bit, so it gives...

One of my favorite sewing projects is to find something at Goodwill and turn it into something totally different. It can be as simple as finding a garment and using it just for fabric and turning it into a new piece. For this project I took a sleeveless, simple, black knit dress and make it a new dress. On one of my fabric runs I came across a remnant that is black lace with denim flowers on it. I bought it with the though that I could use it as a hem addition or maybe pockets to a skirt. I bought it without a plan because I loved it.  I had snagged the black dress at Goodwill for $6 and decided it would be nice to dress up for work, or to add a little something extra. When I started playing around with the dress and the fabric I toyed with the idea of adding a little cape or an over skirt with the lace. I finally landed on using the remnant fabric for big sleeves. Then, after I added the sleeves I felt as though the dress was missing something. I headed off to Joann's to ch...