hello! im doing my own kagero cosplay and your blog has been very helpful! i am stumped on the booty wrap tho and i just dont know how to pattern it :/ can you help out? yours looks great!
Oh thank you, @ts0ni, I’ll try to do my best to try and explain, I didn’t really use a pattern, and it was actually trial and error and that I was lucky to have a lot of extra fabric. owo; You’ll need you main fabric, lining (if you’re using), and bias tape (or whatever you’re using for the edges of her outfit). 1- What I did was get my main fabric and wrap it around my waist. I made sure to put a pin to mark where to cut for the length. You’ll want it long enough to over your butt, obviously, but because of the way my method works… well, you’ll want to put a few more inches past your butt, maybe 2 or 3 past. I didn’t give the width much thought, but don’t do what I did! You’ll want to make the width measurement your waist measurement plus at LEAST 5 to 7 inches. It seems like a lot, but you’ll need them so that when you wrap it around you, it overlaps. This method of doing it has a habit of hiking up so that it hugs your waist and tilts a bit (see visual aids below!) If you have lining, add around a half inch on all edges so you can sew it together without compromising size. You’ll also want to cut the same shape in lining.
2- Once you have your rectangle, what you’re going to do now is sew together the main fabric and lining (if you’re using). Do not sew the top edges! If there’s not lining, just ignore this. Press/Iron your fabric as needed.3- For the edges, you’ll want your bias tape. Now is the time to sew it onto the bottom of your rectangle.
4- Now here’s where we start making the curves, What you’re going to do is lay your fabric on a flat surface and then carefully start placing pins to pleat the side sides upwards. You’ll want to pleat them as high as they can go, because you will be sewing a “waistband” onto your booty wrap. Do not pleat your biased edges! Or do, but that might make it reeeeeally hard to sew depending on your machine. Once everything it curved up the top, sew all along the top edge of your wrap.
5- All you need to do now is add your waist band - I just used more bias tape for this. Make sure the pleated top parts are “eaten up” completely by whatever you’re using for your waistband.
6- And the last step is your closures! I used snaps. Careful, if you followed the instructions I gave, you’ll have to make sure your placements are precise because of how the overlap comes in at a V shape. My recommendation: get bigger sized snaps, and to keep them in place, use a dot of hot glue to keep them in place so they don’t wiggle while you sew them on!
And that’s just how I handled my booty wrap! There’s probably an easier way of doing it where it doesn’t hike up like it does, but I was just using what I already had!
I hope this managed to help you in some way!
Here’s some visual aides so you can see what I mean on some things, because I know trying to describe things is definitely not my forte. ^^;
