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Return to your roots. Post WIPs on tumblr dot com.
Working on Aqua from KH BBS for MAGfest! (Which is a week away, I would like to perish.)
Doing all of my armor as vinyl covered EVA so I don't have to worry quite as much about packing it, since it will have the flexibility that paint doesn't.
Everything is getting UHU glued because, lads, I am obsessed with it.
The massive creaking moan released by my skeleton as I update my header info from "age 26" to "age 33" has deafened me.
Anyway catch me on here or bluesky with build WIPs and con posts. Trying to get away from Instagram.
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What sort of witch craft is this? ViaĀ u/-sUBzERoo-
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sewing friends, what is this stitch? I have so many things to repairā¦please ; 3 ;/
This is called ladder stitch, or blind stitch, iirc. Super useful stitch!
Cosplay (and general sewing) life hack- easy pleats with a fork! For all those school girl uniform cosplays and more :)Ā
Have you ever needed to match your ribbed knit to your fabric but couldnāt find anything remotely similar?
Have you ever tried to dye your ribbed knit to match your fabric but realized itās 70% polyester and itās a pain in the ass?
Did you ever want to cosplay Final Fantasy and were reduced to tears because you couldnāt find chunky ribbed knit?
Donāt worry, you can fake your own.
All you need is a twin needle and two spools of thread, and you can sew your knit fabric to imitate ribbed knit.
When you sew with a twin needle itāll make a sort of āpintuckā, raising the fabric. Leave a small gap between the two rows and itāll create a pattern. This will work better with lighter knits, the one in the pictures is pretty heavy.
Once again, I set the instructions as captions on the photos.
Letās hope Tumblr doesnāt eat this one! Itās hard to post updates here sometimes when Tumblr eats half the postsā¦
Anyway. This is where we are on Lunafreya. This is the fifth and final mockup (hence the disco silliness) and itās been fun getting here haha.
The original pattern for this dress was just a fitted sheath dress, which we developed into āLuna without the tucksā, as seen in previous updates. Once we got the shoulder and collar and front/back folds sorted out, it became time to slash it open to add the tucks.
This looks crazy, but itās simple in practice. Draw lines on your pattern wherever you want pleats/tucks to be. Then cut these lines open from one side, stopping 1/8" from the end so that the piece isnāt actually separated. Spread the pattern open however youād like ā a 1.5" tuck gets 1.5" of space, etc ā and then tape it down. Donāt connect the lines again just yet.
Once youāve taped your pattern down completely into your fun new slashed up shape, itās time to fold up all those creases again so the pattern is āwholeā again. This is how you find your edge! Cut the seam allowance while it is folded, and when you unfold it youāll have a perfect edge that fits back together into the seam allowance perfectly. If you just cut straight your pleats wonāt reach the seam allowance and will float around inside, and nobody likes that.
Christine and I will be cutting out the good one tonight and start assembly. āŗļø Iām pumped!!!
- Jenn
Sorry Iāve nigh on abandoned this blog guys... Twitter and Instagram are so much easier for me to manage, so please consider following those accounts for actual content <3 Colossalcon is 4 short weeks away. Queue panic. Hereās my lineup! <3 I only have shoots set up for a few of these, so if anyone is interested in shooting Moon or my Pooltron, Aqours, or Fire Emblem groups, please send me a price quote!
Tutorial time: How to sew inset corners! A really useful skill that a lot of people have trouble with. Mastering this technique will enable you to piece together seams with difficult angles, and also help improve your precision and dexterity overall.
There are probably multiple ways to do this, but here is the method I learned from God Save the Queen Fashionsā when I was her intern.
1. Start by marking the seam allowances on the back of your fabric to find the exact point at which your corners intersect. On the piece which will be the outer corner (blue in my sample) I have marked the entire length of the seam allowance for clarity. I sometimes do this when sewing complex shapes. On the piece which will be inset (pink here), you can just mark the corner itself.
2. This is just three different views of how the pieces should be pinned and positioned. With the right sides of the fabric together, push a pin through the exact corner of your outside piece (blue) and then through the exact corner of your inside piece (pink) so that they are brought together face-to-face at this point. Pivot the fabric pieces until edges line up along the first side you will be sewing, then prepare to feed it into your machine. When sewing, it will be easier to keep the outside piece (blue) on top.
3. Stitch along the first side, removing the pin before you reach it. On the final stitch, make sure that your needle lands in the exact corner where the pin was. With the needle still engaged in the fabric, lift the presser foot. This is now a pivot point.
4. Pivot the fabric around so that you are looking at the inside of your corner. With a pair of very sharp, narrow snips, clip through the top layer as close as you can possibly get to the needle itself.
5. Pull the other side of the top piece around until its edges line up with the other side of the bottom piece. This opens up the cut you just made. You should be able to fold down the excess fabric fairly neatly if your corner is clean. Once you are in position to sew the second side, lower the presser foot.
6. Stitch along the second side and tie off your thread. Once you remove it from the machine, you should have something like this. The blue fabric is still folded up in my hand in this image so that you can see both sides of the corner.
7. Unfold your fabric, lay it flat, and enjoy the excellent corner you have sewn. If yours isnāt as crisp as youād like it to be, press it flat with an iron or consider top-stitching, as shown in the first image.
Practice will make you better at this. When I first learned, Cathy made me sew like ten in a row until they looked better than the one in this sample (sorry, Cathy). If youāre having trouble, be patient and keep trying and you will end up an expert.
Now show me all of your beautiful inset corners!
Sewing tip a wise woman once taught me: when gathering heavy fabric (like this damask used in Redās cloak), sew a zig-zag over a line of dental floss, then pull the dental floss up to create gathers. No worries about thread breakage! Iāve been doing this method for years and it works GREAT.
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thinking about signing up for the Animarathon cosplay contest as the Frizz (since thereās a Pop Culture section), but I dunno if I should?
I mean Iām pretty proud of the Frizz and am in the progress of making my bus, but I dunno never really entered any cosplay contests.
Thoughts?
Please do! ^_^ The more the merrier, and Animarathonās a pretty chill con to start competing at. (I did!) Weāre taking the form down on Tuesday (x), but weāll probably have a few slots available at-con if you want to wait to decide. Iām happy to field questions about the competition if you have any.
I guess my only questions would be where is it on the schedule and what do you have to do for it?
The competitors meet up at 4:30 to get everyone in order and run through how the show goes etc, and then the show itself starts at 5 and usually runs about an hour/hour and a half.
So presuming you'd enter for Craftsmanship, you would need to sign up for a judging slot. That's a 5 minute appointment sometime during the morning/early afternoon where you come in with reference pictures and tell us about your cosplay--how you made it, favorite parts, anything new you might have learned, etc.
We tally up scores and assign awards prior to the show; then during the masq, the skits perform, craftsmanship entries do their walk-ons/fashion show, and then we present the awards :)
thinking about signing up for the Animarathon cosplay contest as the Frizz (since thereās a Pop Culture section), but I dunno if I should?
I mean Iām pretty proud of the Frizz and am in the progress of making my bus, but I dunno never really entered any cosplay contests.
Thoughts?
Please do! ^_^ The more the merrier, and Animarathon's a pretty chill con to start competing at. (I did!) We're taking the form down on Tuesday (x), but we'll probably have a few slots available at-con if you want to wait to decide. Iām happy to field questions about the competition if you have any.
How to make custom lace appliques ā the āFrankenlaceā method
A lot of people asked for more info on how I made the appliques that decorate the bottom of Zeldaās gown. Hereās my tutorial for the whole process! This method can be used to make all kinds of applique shapes and designs if you get creative with it.
These lace appliques are made out of other lace ā hence the nickname. To get started, youāll need to collect a few lace trims to use as raw material. Look for styles that are similar or complement each other, because youāll be combining them. This is some, but not all, of the trims I used. I bought these in the LA fabric district, but most are available at trimexpoonline.com.
Cut your lace down into smaller pieces that are more modular. Donāt cut up ALL your lace ā this is just an experimentation stage, to practice rearranging the design.
Using a template of your desired shape (I made mine digitally, but you can hand draw one too) practice arranging your pieces until you find a design that suits your needs. This is not my final design in the picture ā I went through several versions before I was totally happy with how it looked. You might discover that you need more lace, which is why planning and experimentation are so important. When youāre satisfied with how it looks, itās time to start putting it all together.
Youāll need an embroidery hoop large enough to cover your whole template, plus some netting that is as close to transparent as you can find. Most generic tulle is NOT fine enough to do well with this technique ā the holes are too large and the tulle stretches too much when handled. Look for netting that does not stretch or fray, if possible. Put some netting in your embroidery hoop, tightening the surface like a drum. I taped my template to a small sheet of masonite to give myself a portable work surface. I also ended up using clamps to hold the embroidery hoop to the masonite, but forgot to get a picture. This is optional, but really helps the design from shifting too much as you work.
Tools for the next step: fabric glue (other brands work too), a small paintbrush, and a water cup. I watered my glue down a little to make it easier to spread with the paintbrush. Be careful not to add TOO much water, or your glue will be too thin, not grip well, and take a long time to dry.
Working in small sections, begin gluing your lace pieces onto the netting. Start at the center and work outward, if possible. Continue until all your lace pieces are glued onto the netting.
Hereās what mine looked like with all the lace attached! At this point, I flipped the embroidery hoop over and applied a second coat of glue over the entire back of the work. The netting is so thin that you can continue to apply more glue from the backside to get a more secure grip.
Optional: add rhinestones to taste. I used E6000 for this step. Not every applique requires rhinestones, but in this case I wanted Zelda to sparkle as much as possible.
Repeat to create as many appliques as you need! Zelda has 8 along the bottom of her dress. Hereās part of my assembly line.
When youāre ready to attach the applique to your fashion fabric, trim away some of the netting along the outside, but leave any āinteriorā portions that help stabilize the design. I simply glued my appliques onto the silk, but I later went back and hand-stitched them down for a more secure hold. After they are properly attached to your fabric, you can VERY CAREFULLY trim away the āinteriorā pockets of plain netting using small scissors.
The final look of my gown, after all the appliques and trim were attached.
This method is very time consuming and requires a lot of patience and concentration ā but I just love the results! I wanted to achieve the look of professionally-made applique, but without access to industrial equipment, this was the next best thing I could come up with.Ā
The white-on-white effect is subtle, but matches the look I was going for. Photo by Vontography.
I hope this is helpful to some of you in your own costume projects. Let me know if you have any questions, and good luck!
Masquerade?
Hi all!Ā
Weāll have our con write-up for AMKE tonight (thank you to everyone who we got to spend time with who were wonderful!)Ā
After watching the masquerade being run as a bit of a mess (and watching/being a part of a number of masquerades both well-run and huge messes), I thought I would reach out to all of you and ask what YOU expect out of a masquerade either as a contestant, audience member, or judge. :)Ā
Do you go to masquerades at cons? Do you compete? What has been your best experience? Your worst? What would your ideal masq be like? Who should judge? What kind of half-time?Ā
Feel free to reply, answer, reblog, or send an ask/fanmail with your thoughts! Iād like to get something written up that audience, new entrants, and con management can all learn something from. :) Hopefully it will help avoid more of the ill-managed masquerades Iāve seen lately.Ā
Thanks!Ā
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P.S. If you ever know of a con thatās looking for craftsmanship judges, absolutely feel free to recommend us! Weād love to come and see everyoneās cosplay!Ā
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