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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\nThe truth is that this design is not one of the ones that attract me the most from Mass Effect and my Shepard always wears a sweatshirt and pants, which is more my style. But after playing Citadel, it started to grow inside of me because I put on that dress for the party and I loved the textures of the fabrics, and how the lights reflected on the dress. I’m a texture slut! So I decided to make the matte parts with imitation leather and the shiny ones with patent leather. In addition to red pleather for the side lines.<\/p>\n
It’s not that making this garment is something very difficult (I’m sorry, but after making Maya, anything seemsto be ez) although it has a few pieces and some are uncomfortable to fit together.<\/p>\n To start, I took out the patterns. As always, I made a front half and a back half because they are mirrored.<\/p>\n I numbered and cut all the pieces. The back part doesn’t seem to fit in the waist area, but I managed it. Since I had a transverse seam at the waist and I didn’t want to modify it, I started the back dart in place (from the armhole and going down), but instead of continuing it towards the butt, I cut it at waist height and completed it by drawing what was left of the dart in a mega dart in the center. Yes, I’m terrible at explaining these things. The moral of all this is: Patterns are not immovable and darts can be adjusted as it suits us best; as long as they fulfill their function, which is to make the garment adapt better to our body. As an example, here <\/a> is a website where they show different modifications for the breast clip.<\/strong><\/p>\n At least that is one of the things I have learned through experience.<\/p>\n I transferred the patterns to the fabric. The piece number 3 (if you enlarge the patterns you will see it) I first made it double and then I realized that it was only one, so I merged it. But I didn’t take photos of that, so I urge you to use your imagination.<\/p>\n I usually go over by basting the edges of the pieces a little wildly because it is easier for me to join them by feel. The bad thing about this is that later you have to remove lots of threads.<\/p>\n Little by little I put everything together.<\/p>\n I finished off the edges of the chest and back. These kinds of things always have a hard time explaining to me. But, well, the idea is that I join the fabrics face to face and sew them following the edge line.<\/p>\n I also put the zipper on it, but I don’t have any photos of that either. It’s the stupidest zipper in the world because it ends right where it’s needed most, which is at the waist. Luckily the fabrics are a little stretchy and, with a little skill and holding my breath, I can put it on and take it off.<\/p>\n And this is how it turned out:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n