"If there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! "... gawd I love the new season of Stranger Things. Ofc I had to dress up as Eleven for Halloween. Most comfy costume ever.
I`m making imperator Furiosa from Mad Max- Fury Road. This is how I made the corset.
I based Furiosas corset on the Simplicity 9769 pattern. I love this pattern and it fits me very well, but you can use any corset pattern as base. Sew Curvy has made an awesome tutorial on the Simplicity 9769 pattern. You can find that here. I did more or less follow the tutorial, although I did some changes to the pattern.
Furiosas corset is an underbust corset and it has no colosing in the front, so I had to alter the pattern to fit that style. I removed the space for the busk in front and shortened the pattern.
Always make a test model when you change patterns. It makes it much easier to detect if something is wrong. (Read more about test models here). I shortened the pattern way too much and had to start al over again. I made a new test model that was much better. The corset begins a few cm up on my boobs..
It's a bit difficult to determine exactly what fabric Furiosas corset is made of, but most likely is it leather. I never use products from animals in my cosplays (cruelty free cosplays), so instead I chose a brown cotton moleskin fabric. It gives the same effect and looks very similar to the reference image.
I used some brown cotton fabric as an under lining, to make the moleskin fabric a bitt stiffer. It works great and I'm super happy with the fabric choice.
I used copper-colored eyelets.
My theory is that Furiosa use the corset for support to the harnesses that holds the arm up. This is not a corset that will carry much weight or alter your silhouette, such as a victorian corset does, so I decided to make a fun (and cheap) twist. Instead of steel boning I used cable ties. In the wasteland you use what you have and I love that scavenger feeling.
(You can use cable ties as boning on 18th century corsets, but not on victorian corsets)
Its #FuriosaFriday and that means more Furiosa stuff! This is how I made the pants.
I dont like using pant and I dont have much experience with sewing them. I therefore decided to base Furiosas pants pattern on som ordinary trouser pattern from the store. Here is a good tutorial for sewing pants. It helped me alot.
I made a muslin (test model) to check the fit of the pattern. There is no point making the first test with two legs. Save fabric and money and make one.
Thefirst test did not fit me so I did som pattern adjustment and made a new muslin. Much better! (I forgot my one leg policy :P) Furiosas pants consists of many different parts so I drew up were I wanted the seams to be.
Back to drawing table and more pattern adjustments. I made another muslin. It was almost okay. The knee seam just needed to be a bitt longer ( under the knee, not over;)) Back to some more pattern adjustment. I made one more test before I started cutting out the actual fabric.
I`m using a thick dark green cotton fabric for the pants and black cotton for flatlining.
Some of Furiosas pants parts (the sides and thigh area) consists of small slits. They tok forever to make.
I try to reuse most of this costume. The zipper is from my boyfriend old jeans.
Over to the legs.
They also consist of many different parts. The right leg has a zipper up to the knee seam. The left leg is narrower so you can tuck it into the boot.
I decided to make a fake zipper seam on that leg. It's not comfy to have a zipper in your shoe.
I decided to do a bit of weathering before I sewed the parts together.
I made the slits in the same way as buttonholes. I used black cotton as flatlining for the parts with slits. ( read more about flatlining here)
Then it was time to sew the pants together. I used a flat felt seam. Read more on that here
I`m making imperator Furiosa from Mad Max- Fury Road. This is how I made the goggles.
It turned out that I had one pair of steampunk goggles that were more or less identical to hers. They just needed some adjustments to be spot on. Why buy something new when you can use what you have?
I had this type of goggles. You will find them anywhere on eBay by searching “stempunk goggles”. They are realy cheep.
So what to do? First I dismantled the goggles and removed the elastic. The color was wrong so I needed to paint them. I got the color completely wrong the first time, so I had to paint them twice... ummm okay.. I had to paint them tree times.
The third time it went much better. I decided to use the hairspray chipping technique to get the weathered look. The technique is awesom and you can see more here I chose a brown shade with a little copper and a darker brown on top.
The eBay goggles has dark glass in them, but Furiosas goggles has clear glass. I needed to fix that. I cut out two circles of transparant worbla and used that instead. (I used Worbla because I had some leftovers lying around. You can use other types plastic or glass to get the same effect). You can see the difference in this picture. Worbla on the left and dark glass on the right.
Next on the to-do list was the “strap” around the head. I used som elastic and coverd it with fabric. ( the same fabric I`m usin as lining in Furiosas corset. More on that later) I did the same with the bit of plastic that goes over your nose.
In the end I weathered/distress the goggles to make them look worn and torn. I painted som mudd and dirt effect on the goggles. Dont forget to do this on the stap as well. Fabric gets realy dirty in the waistland.
The character you've cosplayed that's the most similar to you.
Day 6 of the #20daycosplaychallenge: The character you've cosplayed that's the most similar to you.
This is a hard one. I think maby it is Poison Ivy. You know, that super sexy ecco terrorist from Gotham:P I'm not similar to her in a sexy or evil way, but I`m totaly obsess with my plants. My flat is a jungel. I worry about them when I'm not at home and cry if they die. I love my planst so much! Urban farming is my lifestyle..... and yeah, I read books and comics for my babys <3
For Day 5 of #20daycosplaychallenge
My cosplay pages!
This is where I am on social media. Sometimes I post a lot and sometimes I don`t. It depends. I'm most active on instagram.
Are you on social media too? What are you pages? I would like to check it out: D
Blogg/Tumblr: Take a guess ;)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diary_of_a_superhero_girl/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuperheroGirlCreations/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/superherogi
Ariel from The Little Mermaid, sail dress version, was realy cheep. The “dress” was made from an old curtain (left behind by the previous owners of my apartment) The wig was one of my old Poison Ivy wigs and I made the starfish from clay. I found the dinglehopper in my kitchen drawer.
Photo by Heresetai cosplay
Belle from Beauty and the Beast is by now my most expensive cosplay. I have redon here a couple of times and gone through three wigs. I`m starting to be satisfied with the result;)
I read the The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood when I was 15. It’s the scaryest book I’ve ever read. Now the TV series has come to Hulu ( HBO Nordic if you`re in Norway like me) Its amazingly good, terribly dark, but very very good. Do the world a favor and and se the series or read the book.
I made this cosplay when the trailer for the TV series aired. Now that I have seen the first episodes, I’m going to make some changes to the costume later on.
Anyway this is how I made my handmaid’s tale cosplay.
It’s always nice to have a bag to put your stuff in. You can find a tutorial for it here. I used white cotton.
You can find a tutorial for the coif here. Just fold up the flaps.
You can find a tutorial for the bonnet here. I made the brim bigger and put foam in it to make it stiff. My bonnet is not screen accurate so that is one of the things I have to fix later.
My dress is made from red cotton. Im on the look out for a different type of fabric. It needs more flow. I altered a standard dress pattern. Behold my awesome drawing skills!
The dress has a zipper in the back and a split in the front. It got pointed sleeves. The skirt is made like a wrap around skirt with gathers on top.
I need to make the cloak later. Im going to base it on Butterick Pattern B4377. (I already have that pattern and I`m lazy :P) Any standard hooded cape/cloak pattern will work well. Just make openings for your arms and you`re good to go.
You can see in episode four that the handmaids also have a sweater and a scarf. It is quite cold in Norway in the winter so that can be handy. Maby I’ll make that later.
Day 3 of #20daycosplaychallenge: Least favourite cosplay vs. Favorite cosplay. My least favourite cosplay is Fairy Godmother from Cinderella. I worked very hard on the costume, but I was so disappointed with the end result. I put way too much pressure on myself to finish the costume and was very down when it didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted. Much shit happened when I wore the costume as well. I injured myself at the con and a lot of people were shit bags. It actually had nothing to do with the costume, but all in all I associate my Fairy Godmother cosplay with bad things now. One of my absolute favorite cosplays is Azkaban Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter. It is super fun to just run around being batshit crazy and dont worry about smeared makeup or if the wig is tangled :-D The cosplay is cheap, easy and very fun. What more can you ask for?
oh my gaaaw. I dont know! I've never been able to keep count. Like, I've done tons of closet cosplays and many of them were never photographed. Here is a small collection of some of the ones I've done. You can see more by checking out the photo section on my facebook page.
Inspired by Weaslette Cosplay, I decided to join in on the #20daycosplaychallenge
Day 1: First cosplay.
That is a difficult questions. I have always loved dressing up and resemble characters in movies and books ever since I was a kid. I did not think of what it was called and I had no idea what cosplay was. I think the road (in to madness) properly started in 2002. I know I dressed up in a suit, sunglasses and an awesome attitude for the cinematic masterpiece Men in Black 2, but it was not until the premiere of The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, later that year, I made a costume from scratch. It was an elf and it looked absolutely terrible. It was so bad...
I wish I could say that the Lord of the Rings ( the fandom that has given me everything) started my cosplay career, but MIB 2 beat it with a couple of months. I dont have any photos of those costumes atm, but here is a picture from the Return of the King. I was a fem ithilien rangers. I have a big love for Faramir;)
You know what? I love Men in Black. I dont care :D Sorry, not sorry <3 <3
/To my Norwegian followers/
Jeg og Heresetai cosplay holder syworkshop på Arthecon II Kurset passer godt for nybegynnere og for dere som ikke har sydd så mye før.
På dette kurset vil du lære å sy en hette du kan bruke i alle anledninger. Vi baserer oss på et historisk mønster og den passer derfor like godt til reenactment som til cosplay.
My Jurassic World paddock supervisor cosplay from Fredrikstad Scifi festival last year. It was a realy fun last minut closet cosplay!
T-shirt from Primark
Faux leather jacket from Pink Woman
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Photo by John Arne Johnsen Photograpy
/to my Norwegian followers. I`m giving a talk this weeken on nord culture/
Til helgen er det Desucon: Pop Jeg holder foredrag om nerder og nerdekultur, både historisk og kulturelt. Blå salong klokka 14.00
Sees vi? Skal noen av dere på Desucon?
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