For cosplay ask meme: 11, 12, 28!
Finally getting to these. Sorry for the delay.
11: Which cosplay took you the longest time to make?
The costume itself took a long time to make (wings, horns, a dress made of over 6 yards of satin entirely draped and then French seamed and detailed by hand), but I also basically made it twice, since my first version was an utter disaster. The only thing I didn’t touch in the remake was the wing assembly, but the dress was remade from scratch, the horns were changed quite a bit, and the tights were totally redone.
Honorable mentions: Roxy ballgown (DANGERSKIRT), Condesce (horns and 2x3dent and wig), Kanaya (my first bunnysuit took forever), engineering Pearl’s spear, hand stoning my entire Rose Lalonde needles. Why is it almost all Homestuck.
Longest from conception to debut: Jolteon. I first came up with the idea in fall 2013, started the designs in spring 2014, and finally debuted the costume in winter 2017. I pretty much went from right before the bunnysuit trend to the very tail end of it (no pun intended) before these costumes were made. :P
12: Shortest time to make?
Oh geez. The number of costumes I’ve made in just a day or two is...higher than I expected. Mom Lalonde was literally the evening before the con (the martini took longer to make). Julia didn’t take very long. I don’t think the first version of Maj. Kusanagi I did really counts, since the leotard was purchased and all I did was cut up a T-shirt and make the briefs. I think the award goes to Mireille Bouquet, since I already had the skirt fabric cut and just needed to sew it together, and all I really needed to make from scratch was the top (though I also made the belt from scratch -- I recycled it for Juri by switching out the false buckle).
Not the shortest time to make by a longshot, but the shortest time from deciding to do a costume and debuting it easily goes to Yuri Plisetsky. That was maybe two or three weeks turnaround time, and was a very sudden decision.
28: What is your 'Cosplay First Aid Kit' (what you use to repair a cosplay)?
I think I already answered this, and it was basically “mostly adhesives and safety pins”