sewing blog

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tfw u look up an attachment you want for ur sewing machine and find out that u bought it 6 years ago

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Breath of the Wild Cosplay Props made by Castro-Yves

[kamuicosplay]

The Book of Cosplay Sewing is out now! It’s only 5$! 

https://www.kamuicosplay.com/product/cosplaysewingdownload/

If you always had struggle with fabric and your sewing machine, this is the perfect volume to start! I wrote it especially for cosplayers and guide you from choosing the right material, over pattern making to finishing a complete costume! Hope you like it! :)

[zohbugg]

This looks super helpful! Especially love the way she made the bodice pattern. Gonna give this a download!

[thestarfishdancer]

@pandoyareblogs!!!

[ladycels]

If you liked this tutorial, pleas check out my Facebook page for more of my work!

http://www.facebook.com/LadyCels

Larger Size avaliable on my Deviantart 

[sumikins]

I needed this in my life. Bless this post!

[animemidwestcon-blog]

Not having a sewing machine makes making cosplay sooooo much harder. Here’s something to help!

[inyuji]

I used to do this quite a lot. I miss it

[guildwars2]

“FIFTY SHADES OF GREEN”. Foam wig tutorial by Vega

This won’t end well… Or will it? %) This is probably my biggest cosplay project this year. For now I’ve finished the wig and next step will be probably me crafting Caladbolg. The cosplay itself is planned to be finished somewhere around August-September this year.

For fellow cosplayers out there, I’ve decided to make use of all my process photos and write a detailed tutorial. I hope it helps some of you with your own ideas and crafts!

The step-by-step foam wig guide is available in PDF format. You can download it @ dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4zhke2pjuvvx5mf/wig-tutorial-by-vega-eng.pdf?dl=0 (in English)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7b5ez231vcfu9kg/wig-tutorial-by-vega-rus.pdf?dl=0 (in Russian)

Cheers!

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what.it.looks.like.on.me is a makeup account on Instagram made by a black woman; it includes swatches of lip, eyeshadows, blushes, highlighters, contour kits and etc. support black women in makeup and follow their account.

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not clothes related, but shared in solidarity with dark-skinned people who have to gamble when buying cosmetics !

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Yesss

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Save a life

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Makeup 101: Acne Coverage Foundation Routines

1.Lee 2.Kymberli 3.Alexandra 4.Meka 5.Tia

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I love this, make up really allows people to face the world sometimes

[nataliemeansnice]

if y'all have skin that’s acne prone/scarred/hyperpigmented like me, these kinds of YouTube videos are super helpful!

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They are amazing omg!!

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for any of my followers who might want these vids <3 

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Make Some Pocket Extenders for Your Pants

So I don’t know about you, but I’m often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girls’ pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there - come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. I’ve done this several times, for pants and shorts. It’s great.

I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasn’t occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesn’t even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).

See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5″. Useless.

 So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.

Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didn’t really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.

Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesn’t matter; nobody’s going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.

Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.

Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldn’t accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didn’t worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.

Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!

Whaaaat I can fit my entire phone and entire hand and probably something else now, are girls’ pockets even allowed to do that?! Heck yeah they are.

[rosalarian]

You are a goddamn hero.

[angelicfrog]

:)

[mjolnirismypenis]

The Yaya Han fabrics are in at Joann Fabrics

And I feel as if you guys need to know about these.  Because I don’t want some unsuspecting cosplayer to waste their money.  Before I go on, I want to say that I am a costume maker and I have a degree in costume and fashion technology.  As a part of that degree I had to learn a ton about fabrics and I handle fabrics that range from $2 - $200 a yard every day.

So I came in to this yesterday.  A cart full.  We didn’t get too many, you can see they all have the Yaya Han logo on them and they all say “Cosplay by Yaya Han” on the end.  They all cost $19.99 (on the Joann website, they actually have some that are even more expensive) and are not going on sale any time soon. Included in what was there are these:

7 metallic 4 way stretch fabrics. 1 of these is a print (the red scales??).  They’re very similar to the “performance fabrics” that are actually across from these in the aisle.  However, they’re extremely cheaply made and stick to each other.  I can already foresee the horror of having to measure these, all that loud peeling noise of having to separate it all from itself. The only really useful color that was there was the metallic black, which looks a bit like wet look leggings.  The unfortunate thing is that directly across the aisle is the exact same thing.  For cheaper.  You’re basically paying extra for her name to be on them.

Next is the stretch pleather and the twill.  The pleather was grey, that was the only one there.  It was VERY thin, I could see it pretty much only being used for a body suit or leggings, but the color was so odd I don’t know what costume would use it.  The thing was.  Again. It was cheaply made.  It was brand new just out of the plastic and already peeling off of the backing.  Truthfully, this was the one thing I was sort of excited about in this line and I’d happily use a 50% or 60% off coupon on a couple of yards if it was more substantial.  It’s the only thing in this line so far that I feel the price is worth it, if it was thicker. (Please note that Joann HAS a stretch pleather for $12.99.  It doesn’t stretch as much as this, but it works very well for nice tight sleeves) The twill is described as “corset twill”, however, it’s NOT coutil.  I could see it being a nice replacement for it, but it’s not as thick.  The weave is nice (you can see it sort of), but again, something that Joann already sells for $9.99.

And finally, the brocades.  They’re all polyester nylon blend.  The color range isn’t bad and Joann purposely put their peacock brocade on clearance because they were getting these.  The thing was, I was sort of hoping for a range.  Something different that wasn’t already there, something good for things like Game of Thrones costumes.  What we got was exactly what we already had, just 60″ instead of 45″.  Except for the second blue one (which is peacock feathers) all of the designs are the same paisley.  You’re basically paying $10 just for 15 extra inches wide. I want to see the rest of the collection, there’s a rib knit I found online in it that’s $29.99 and I need to see what the big deal about this is, when there’s rib knit at Joann for $9.99 already.  In my opinion, right now, it’s not worth it.  Don’t waste your money, it’s cheap, it sticks to itself, and it’s exactly what’s already at Joann.  The pleather is the only thing I would spend my money on and you can buy it online for cheaper. (It’s $15 at Mood and at Spandex World).  These should be out at all Joanns and others may have what we don’t so please feel free to add onto this post as you see fit.  But this is my personal review out of the package of the Yaya Han cosplay fabrics.

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actually the yaya han fabrics are terrible and heres why!!! i saw this on a friends of mines facebook and honestly couldnt believe it but what more to expect from yaya.. please be safe while buying this fabric if you still choose to!!!

[missmoonshinesmakes]

My god! That’s so bad!

[doingthingsinthedesert]

@foenixfyre just in case

[knitfreakcosplay]

So, here’s my up-front piece on Yaya Han. I have second, third, fourth (keep on going) thoughts about buying ANYTHING associated with her. Having worked with her as a high-level convention staffer on the past, I don’t care for her. I don’t appreciate her outlook on Cosplay, her behavior toward fans, her treatment of staffers.

I did, in fact purchase Yaya Han’s corset pattern for my current costume. It looked as though the lines were clean and I liked that the pattern came with over- and under-bust options. Frankly, I shouldn’t have bothered. For all of the time I spent recutting, redrafting, restitching that piece of crap, I might as well have drafted my corset from scratch. The pattern is great if you don’t know any better, don’t care, and just want a costume piece that looks like a corset. But it’s a bad pattern.

I haven’t seen the fabrics yet. I have no intention of buying them, or anything else that comes out of Han’s growing little empire. I respect my work too much to waste time and money on substandard materials.

Sorry for the rant, but there you go.

[yvonnemcf]

A Giant Woman!

Photographer - @lunalexisphotography

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Lydia Deetz .animated version <3

in progress *___*

[gothiccharmschool]

Oh, LOOK at you! Absolutely adorable.

[as-warm-as-choco]

The Samurai Champloo (サムライチャンプルー) cosplayers that stole my heart… Thank you SO much for bringing back so many memories. T_T The anachronisms, the animation, the music, the historical knowledge that it made me search for. I fell in love with Edo Period, japanese mythology and (ukiyo-e) painting. I fell in love with the director (Shinichiro Watanabe) and THEN with Cowboy Bebop. Masaru Gotsubo’s manga. Nakazawa’s designs. Shing02. SO much jazz knowledge from Nujabes’ samples. Thank you, Jun. どうもありがとうございます！Mystline still makes me cry. I fell so much in love it took me 9 months to write a tribute song over The Final View. It took a poem’s time, and hopefully it has the beauty of one… And the dopeness of yours. T_T Hope you and Dilla will listen to it next February 7. There hasn’t been a greek tribute (that sounded ancient) so it will be my honor. R.I.P. Samurai who smells of Sunflowers.

MUGEN (ムゲン,2) ＠ Kyōno (恭乃) JIN (ジン) ＠ Sakadzuki (サカヅキ) FUU KASUMI (フウ) ＠ Akane (朱音)

PHOTO BY CHOKORO (ちょころ)

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I am utterly amazed, like holy crap!

[teacupdinosaur]

My 3.5 year old daughter wanted to be a princess for Halloween.  OK! I said, then all common sense flew out the door and I proceeded with making her an entire, (mostly) historically accurate 18th century Robe a la Francaise, using nothing but thrifted bed sheets for the fabric. If you’re interested in the nitty gritty details - I’ve made a blog post detailing the construction process

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Heat Transfer Vinyl

Okay dudes I wanna teach you some magic today.  I get a LOT of questions about what I use for designs on my Zelda costume as well as on my Matt Miller jacket.  You can buy it on eBay pretty easily.  I get mine here.

This stuff looks amazing and it’s SO CLEAN when you apply it.  It also isn’t overly shiny, so it looks pretty great on most fabrics, which is why I prefer it to painting fabric.  SO here is how the stuff works:

Heat transfer vinyl has two sides—a glossy and a matte side.  You’re going to want to draw your design on the matte side, as that’s where it has the adhesive.

Draw your design and cut it out.

Place it matte side down, glossy side up on the fabric you’re using.

Iron!  I put my iron on the highest setting just to be sure it sticks but some times this can warp the vinyl if you’re not careful.  You’ll want to go over it a few times.

Peel off the glossy side and bam! You’re done and you have a kickass design on your fabric!

[rufiozuko]

Ok, for any of you trying to pull off this costume for Halloween, here’s the wardrobe test and sketch for #Rufio battle outfit. Good luck! I want to see who can pull it off!

[elfyourmother]

a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesn’t even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.