Embroidered silk pillowcases

Filigree bat embroidered silk pillowcase

I picked up this gorgeous black silk charmeuse fabric at the 2023 Grandmother’s Sale, and it hung around in my sewing room for a while, as I was unsure about what I wanted to do with it. It would be enough for a dress, but I wasn’t sure that I wanted to make a dress with it.

Then when I met a woman making luxurious silk scrunchies at the Maker Space, I realized I really wanted to make pillowcases with them (I already have red and gold, and silver and navy polyester charmeuse pillowcases). Of course, since I had been spending so much time making beautiful creepy-cute gothic things using the Brother Innovis embroidery machine at the Maker Space at the same time, this meant I would need to pretty-up plain black silk pillowcases with some creepy-cute embroidery!

Elastic corset-laced belt

Stitching the corset-laced elastic belt

I was scrolling through Instagram not too long ago, and came across a photo one of the models I follow (Hekate_Nocturnal) posted – and while her outfit in general was amazing, I was particularly drawn to the belt she was wearing.

Unfortunately, she didn’t credit the manufacturer in that post, however after lots of scrolling, I found it again in a sponsored post (ad) and it’s from Romwe – one of the brands sold by Shein that carries a lot of (mostly knock off by the looks of things) goth, elegantGothicLolita, punk, fairycore, etc clothing.

Now.. if I didn’t totally recognize the elastic in the photo, I might have gone to a website and started hunting… but I did!

Bat-print boots & shoes

I have another short post today, just to show off a recent crafty thing I did… transforming these shoes:

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Cathedral Arches mini shelf

Cathedral arches mirror mini shelf for my gothic gallery wall

I have made a number of small, decorative shelves for my gothic gallery wall, largely using the laser cutter at the maker space. One of the designs I wanted to take from my Gothic Cathedral Pillar and make into a mini shelf as well, was the arched window design.

I originally made these in paper (as single arched windows), but decided on a slightly different design to cut out of 1/8″ thick Baltic birch plywood for this project.

Coffin shaped mirror (version two, laser cut with spiderwebs)

Version two of my coffin-shaped mirror

Back in the summer, I went to Michael’s to see their Hallowe’en stuff, and liked, but didn’t get the coffin-shaped mirror they had. Of course that meant that a week later when I went back (with the coupon in my hand of course) … it was gone.

I looked online – their coffin mirror was sold out EVERYWHERE, and of course, being a mirror, even if they had it in another city, it wasn’t eligible to be shipped anyways. I looked online for other sellers of similar things, and there were a few that were cute (at 10x the price…) and a few that were way too big, and a few that were too kitchy.

So of course, I set out to make my own.