Angela Clayton

You know the aphorism ‘perfection is the enemy of progress’ ? Turns out it is also the enemy of posting, as proven by the fact that I have not posted in the better part of a year. (Well, hopefully it wasn’t the better part, because that would not bode well for the remaining months of the year, but y

So. After final cut not responding for several hours and the audio randomly getting louder half way through, I'm calling it quits on posting this today. But hey it means you get the finished video (aside from the audio issue) a week in advance! This has been watched through twice so hopefully all th

So. Cutting things a bit close this month, huh? I really was not expecting to have so much footage of this project. Like more footage than anything else I have made, ever. Like 400GB worth, which is more than twenty hours and doesn't include the narration (which is based off a 15k word script). So,

Once again, I seem to have ended up with mesh overlay on a skirt that is being far more fussy than I originally anticipated. And unfortunately, it means this project won’t be done in time for Halloween—which sucks because I tried so hard to get it there, but it became obvious a couple days ago that

Edit: This video was accidentally set to private when I posted it last night and despite marking it unlisted shortly thereafter there were still some issues. I've tried this link in incognito and safari when not logged in and it appears to be working, so hopefully it is resolved now! Please let me k

Do you want to know something funny? Part of the reason I posted extended cuts of making the bodice on patreon but held off on editing them from YouTube was because I was convinced I would have so little footage of the skirt that it wouldn't be enough content for its own video. And now this video is

This is absolutely just a really long blog post. In a perfect world, this would be a video. But I have, apparently, lost the ability to concisely convey thoughts without a script. Writing one for a vlog seemed both unnatural and weirdly formal, but without one I would probably film for like three ho

I’m still not sure how this took me as long to edit as it did, but I guess that is the theme for this week. This is part two of the extended cut of this project! Part one can be found in this post –part three will come whenever I get around to making the skirt! This installment focuses on the sleeve

*edit, you didn't see that typo. you didn't. Oh man, I really thought I’d have this done on Sunday, what a cute notion that was. And then I stayed up to finish it on Monday. And now it is halfway through Tuesday and it is actually done. Er. Half of it is. I have another hour of roughly cut footage t

Hello everyone! This is the video I posted a draft of last week, since then I've added more photos, a bit more context for the pieces I'm focusing on, and moved around the introduction of the underdress. But it is like, 95% the same, so I don't blame you if you skip it 😉 Thank you again for all the

To go along with today's video [link here] some photos of the finished gown! The last time I took costume photos of any sort was...August 2022, I think? So it has been a while on all accounts. I don't want to talk about how long I spent sorted and editing these, it's shameful, and I am very sick of

So, as per usual, this video and dress took several days longer than I had both allowed and expected. I genuinely thought the dress just needed a hem. And that was all it needed, but I was really unhappy with the shape—so panels were added to the skirt pretty late in the game (by that I mean two day

Hello everyone! I will try to post a more patreon relevant update soon enough but right now I want to throw this out in the universe before my anxiety can get the better of me. I forgot about that part of making videos and oof. But here is the first part about making a dress, because I made a dress!

​​Hello everyone! Look, a sign of life! To start this off, I just want to give a huge thank you to anyone who has stuck around. I did not expect that at all. Today was my first time looking at numbers in over a year and that was a welcome surprise. I have skipped every month I've been gone, so no on

Hi guys! So it has been many many months since I’ve posted anything on here, as some of you have probably noticed. I’ve been jumping on near the end of each month to pause payment cycles, so no one should have been charged since February, but I haven’t interacted much beyond that or checked stats or

Hi guys! Just a heads up that I'm pausing this months billing cycle and you will not be charged on February 1st. I've had a few battles with insurance over medications and due to that plus shortages, I've been off what allows me to be productive for nearly two weeks now. So I'm FINE just very very v

You know, I planned on this going up yesterday, but it seems weirdly fitting to celebrate the last day of the year by looking at some of the things I failed to accomplish during it. That has kind of been the theme of 2022. I'm kidding. Kind of. This was a crummy year for me but having your support r

I am VERY late posting this. Early access was not an option because I finished it on the evening of Christmas eve, lol! But here is my Christmas Project in case you missed it. The vlog about planning it and making the petticoat is also now live, if you're curious! I hope you all had a wonderful holi

This was supposed to go up the same day as the video about my Christmas costume, but I was so exhausted from editing it that just getting it up alone was a struggle. (December was a bad month for there to be an adderall shortage, okay?) So this is a little late. And perhaps less seasonally relevant.

Hello everyone! I’m just jumping on to say that yet again I’ll be skipping a payment cycle. That means you won’t be charged for content at the beginning of December, because clearly there wasn’t much content in November. This was not my intention as recently as a week ago, but my print order was del

Hello everyone! I’m just jumping on here to say that I will be skipping this month — that means the billing cycle will be paused. You will not be charged for October and there won’t be any content going out. Things should resume in November! There is no reason in particular for this, just that I’m b

Guess what I FINALLY FINISHED? It took dozens of hours of embellishing, so it seems fitting that this would end up being my longest video ever! Almost an hour long! That being said, I skipped filming a lot of steps - this was a very self indulgent project that I debated not filming at all. What I di

This month has been a struggle for reasons I will go into in an update, BUT I managed to make a dress. And I think it is a pretty great dress. And I hope you like this video about making it! maxresdefault.jpg (YouTube)

Hello it is ME bringing you your regularly scheduled hat making content. This one will be part of a green/gold menswear inspired ensemble I've been working on for the past few months. And this brings it one garment closer to being (FINALLY) finished. I just have to hem a chemise and make a sash and

This project is not done. So the video about making it isn't done, either. But I am sort of obsessed with how it is coming along. So this video is basically 20 minutes of me being delighted about that fact. ENJOY. Oh also I compared the fabrics I planned on using before starting on this project with

At the end of July I set myself a goal: get this dress photographed and the video about it posted before the end of August. I did...one of those things. I tried REALLY hard to get this photographed. I waited for the singular day we had where the temperature was below 85 degrees. I ironed it. I style

Do you ever start on a simple project with every intention of finishing it in a weekend? And then instead of finishing it, you just don't touch it for 5 months? I hope the answer is yes so I am not alone here, lol! That is the story with these dresses. I thought they would go together so quickly and

I was honestly *dreading* filming this, because I thought I'd have ten minutes of footage. I feel like I did nothing this month! So filming and editing this was actually a pleasant surprise, I'm really happy with all the things I'm working on, and I made major progress on three big projects. And mos

The first of this months patreon exclusive videos is about making EYES. Dragon eyes, to be specific. These were a last minute addition to a weird dragon inspired costume that I will go more into in tomorrows update. I was kind of overjoyed with how cool they came out. I wanted an excuse to make more

I have ANOTHER video to share! Wow! As I said in my last post, I hoped to get this project completely finished before the end of July. And that is well on its way to actually happening! It has sleeves now. It…sort of has a skirt. I have assembled and embellished it, but it has to be sewn on. And the

Hello everyone! I have a new video to share with you. Finally. I have been sewing a fair bit recently, just done a crap job of compiling that sewing into content. This was made on a whim, but ended up being my big project for June. Every bit of it (especially the trim) was more time consuming than I

My dogs have done everything in their power today to prevent me from posting this and are currently barking in an attempt to distract me, as they have been on and off for the last three hours. Aren't animals just the cutest? I took May off from making an update since when looking back at the end of

I am making a historical thing! It has sequins, and beading, and puffed sleeves, and all those yummy things. But it isn't finished yet, and neither is the video about it. However, it needed a matching bonnet, so that is what this video is about! I like how this bonnet turned out, but there were some

I was going to film an update today, but I don’t have a ton to update you on. However I do have some pretty concrete plans for a series of videos about building a summer wardrobe - which I plan on doing from stash fabrics and vintage patterns. Nine vintage patterns, to be exact, for a total of ten g

I'll be honest - I'm not usually very proud of my patreon exclusive videos...but i'm proud of this one! It is basically a whole 30+ minute long making of video, with a small twist. I didn't script the voice over ahead of time, and I speeded up the footage opposed to editing it down. The end result w

I’m trying really hard to meet my deadlines this month, but May has been ROUGH. So we’ll see what happens. But one deadline I know I missed, is getting this video up by Sunday. I has dozens of hours of footage for this project, since the painting was SO time consuming. The rough cut was over an hour

This is going up later than I would have liked, but at least it is now up! This was sort of a chaotic month. But I did manage to make what I think is my prettiest dress ever. And I made major progress on the no-longer-valentines-day-valentines-day-project, which I'm hoping to post a video about prio

This project was picked BY patrons, so it made sense to make it patreon exclusive, too! I was a bit skeptical when I saw this pattern won its poll, because it consisted of a pencil skirt. Historically, I do not like pencil skirts. But I do like THIS pencil skirt. I wish I could say the same for the

I'm still fiddling with the thumbnail, and have to add links to the description - but I'm happy to present this weeks video! The concept isn't revolutionary: I made a blue dress from a vintage pattern to match my new blue hair. But this was a really fun one to film, mainly because I had company thro

This garment is nothing revolutionary, but I'm happier with it than most things I've finished in the last year lol! It came together really nicely, even with annoying design details aside (bound buttonholes, UGH). I enjoy the fit and the the fabric and the proportions, and I think I will actually ge

An update appears! For the second month in a row! Pathetically, it has been a while since that has happened. This month wasn't amazing, but it was a bit of an improvement given how this year is going so far. I didn't have the confidence or enthusiasm to work much on my historical costume WIPs, but I

Good news! After many delays and much procrastination I finally finished these stupid blouses I started in January. And I finally photographed them - which meant I could ditch the purple hair! I'm feeling much better as a blue-head. I wish I felt as good about these blouses as I do the new hair, but