I didn't get a chance to take any during-production pictures of my cosplay. It's a been a rough few months, so I really did this cosplay last minute. But I took a picture of the pattern pieces I made and where the fold is and how many pieces to cut out. The fleece was bought from Joann's.
The chips were purchased off Amazon and looks similar to what Umaru eats. I ate the chips that came with it (yummy) and made some look-alike chips out of polymer clay and then painted them with pastel chalk once cooled. I stuffed the inside of the chip bag with packaging air bags and taped the fake chips to the top of the bag. It was a fun cosplay :)
Umaru-chan Cosplay from Himouto! Umaru-chan
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Shirt - Target
Capri pants - Amazon
Wig - Arda Wigs - Venus Classic (Titanium Blonde)
Contacts - Pinky Paradise (Bella Brown)
Chips - Calbee Chips from Amazon (these are super yummy btw if you like seaweed taste
Cape - Made by me
love my pink contacts from PinkyParadise. These are the EOS Candy Pink. I really wanted the Princess Pinky Eclipse for my Madoka cosplay but they were sold out. I think it worked out great because I am in love with the thicker rim on the EOS Candy Pink.
The wig was my first Arda wig, and the quality is amazing. It fits my head better than any wig I've ever worn. This was for my Madoka cosplay and it's the Chibi Classic in bubblegum pink color (looks like its on sale right now too!)
I made a quick mock-up of how I made the gems for Madoka's necklace and bow.
Here are the products I bought for the gem casting. All from Amazon:
EasyCast Epoxy
Mold Builder Liquid Latex Rubber
Mold Release Conditioner
Bow - I bought a large plank of wood from Lowe's and drew an outline of Madoka's bow. Cut it out with a jigsaw. Painted it with a dark brown acrylic paint. I found some cheap flowers from Hobby Lobby for the flowers at the top. I drilled little holes to stick the stems in (and secured them with hot glue).
Arrow - I sprayed some Great Stuff on a long wooden ruler. You can't really see in this picture because I had just sprayed it, but these stuff expands to a HUGE size. it's amazing.
When the foam expanded I shaped it with a box cutter to resemble an arrow with spirals like Madoka's.
Then I wrapped the entire thing with masking tape and paper mached it. After that I used CelluClay that I bought at Michael's to perfect everything and give the spirals more detail.
After that, it was painted with two different color pinks, a neon and a soft pink.
Shoes I'm so glad I didn't have to spent a lot of money on Madoka's shoes. I found these red flats on Amazon for only $14: Utopia Ballet Flats
I bought 1/8th of a yard of red leather from Joann's and cut it into strips. I hot glued the strips to the shoe and they stayed perfectly throughout the entire convention. So my total Madoka shoes cost was only ony $17!
Socks
life lesson: princess seams are very difficult without a dress form
Making this blouse has taught me that I really, really want to buy a dress form before I do any other cosplays. Making Madoka's blouse was incredibly difficult to fit properly to the body without having one, and it involved a lot of taking off and putting on and getting jabbed with needles.
Here's the yellow bib's detail work. I used a ruffler foot to make the ruffles, and I attached pink bias tape around the yellow bib. I cut out a 1.25" wide strip of white cloth, sewed it up and turned it inside out for the middle white stripe.
I sewed the yellow bib to the blouse. I found some pink buttons at Joann's that I hand sewed down the middle. Then, I installed my zipper into the side seam.
~~~~~*~~~~~ Sleeves ~~~~~*~~~~~
I was incredibly timid about the sleeves because I've never made sleeves before and I didn't think I was going to be able to achieve the look I wanted. But they turned out PERFECT. I fell in love and can't wait to make another cosplay with puffed sleeves.
I just found a very basic gathered sleeve pattern on the internet. You can see the white elastic I have strapped on it now (second picture), as I haven't covered it in pink fabric yet. But I made the sleeve pattern I found online a little bigger (first picture) because I wanted to be able to use the elastic band to "push" up the sleeve into a bigger puff.
I sewed a little strip of pink fabric to the underside of the sleeve and sewed some pink cloth casing over the elastic band
~~~~~*~~~~~ Petal Skirt ~~~~~*~~~~~
For the petal skirt, I cut out one "petal" that I liked and made it into a bunch of aluminum foil pieces. Then i traced a circle skirt pattern into the fabric and taped the petals around it in a form that i liked.
I have a bad habit of not ironing before I cut,btw. Once I cut out the petal skirt, I used pink double-fold bias tape to encase the raw edges. I sewed the petal skirt to the bodice.
I used pink bias tape to encase the raw edges around the petal skirt and then I attached the whole thing to my bodice.
the amount of poof i managed in this skirt is the stuff dreams are made of
I used about 5 yards of tulle netting and 5 yards of muslin to make my Madoka skirt.
Side view
The first thing I did was create a half circle skirt and then made 3 strips of Ruffles + Netting and attached the 3 strips of ruffles to the circle skirt.
Ruffles:
I cut 3 1/4" by 450" strips of muslin (of course, the 450 inches long was not cut all at once but sewn together pieces to form the 450" strip)
Then I double-hemmed one side of the long strip. The other side, I gathered to make the ruffles. With gathering, I use a zig-zag stich over fishing line and then pulled the fabric to create the ruffles. After gathering, I had a length of about 220" ruffles.
After the ruffles are created, I cut 3.5" by 220" of tulle netting and then sewed the ruffles to the bottom of this.
So this was the first tier. For extra "fluff" to the skirt, I will be doubling this over lengthwise and then gathering the netting down to fit my circle skirt. You can see below the strips are doubled over and sewn together at the ruffle. The top of the netting is fishing line that will be gathered and then sewn to the circle skirt.
I did this same step two more times for my total of 3 tiers. The only thing that changed is for the second tier, instead of sewing at the bottom of the circle skirt I sewed it in the middle of the circle skirt (so the netting strip was 7" by 220" instead of the first tier's 3.5" by 220"). The third tier was sewn at the waist, so the length of the netting ended up being the entire length of my circle skirt (13" by 220"). You can see this in the image below.
Here's a little breakdown of the entire skirt. Where "gathered" lines are is basically the strips of tulle netting that is gathered down and sewn into the circle skirt.
My Sailormoon cosplay for Pensacon 2014, sewn by me
Leotard, gloves, and boots are made from lycra and everythign is else is just cotton. Odango gems are foam balls cut in half and painted.
Moon Stick is made from polymer clay, foam board, and a wooden dowel.
My Creepy Doll costume!
Blush: NYX Blush: Peach & NYX Primal Colors: Hot Pink
Eyeliner: Kat Von D Tattoo Liner - ink black
Mascara: I forgot to put it on, oops. But I would have used my fave: Cover Girl: Clump Crusher
Lipstick: I just used some foundation on my lips then put some of the NYX Hot Pink in the center.
Powder: Bare Minerals Matte
The dress I actually bought from Hot Topic. The brand is Midnight Hour. I thought it was perfect even though it wasn't really made for a doll costume.
I'm loving perler beading lately. I saw a Toki Doki perler bead creation at a convention and knew I had to go home and immediately make it. I've been perler beading since.
Unicorno is my all time favorite! [pattern]
The backpack is pretty simple to make, and can be modified to fit your tastes. Stuff the straps, sew a real button on if you want, put a zipper on the flap so it's functional. Follow the tutorial and have fun sewing!
* Front and Back *
* Flat Straps & Stuffed straps comparison *
TUTORIAL
Cutting the Fleece
The pattern is simple to make. Freehand it or make rectangles with rounded corners to form a pattern similar to the one below.The pieces I made are 13" x 8 1/4" for the top piece, 13" x 7" for the bottom, and 13" x 5" for the strap piece.
Fold fabric over and trace the pattern, so that you'll have two pieces of fabric for each piece.
Making the Straps
With "right" sides facing each other, sew the light-green piece of fabric to the dark-green piece of fabric. Then, fold over vertically with "right" sides facing each other again, and sew all the way up vertically. Repeat for other strap.
Turn the straps inside out. It's optional to stuff the straps with cotton to give that "rounded" look from the cartoon. I used the "flat" look for my Fionna Cosplay. I've provided pictures of both, so you can decide which look you prefer.
Now that the straps are finished, we'll sew them onto one side of the backpack.
Sewing the backpack
Place "right" sides together and sew the middle side only. Leave a 5-6 inch hole in one of the sides, so you can turn the backpack inside out later once it's sewn together. Do not sew the two backpack pieces together until the straps are sewn on.
Take the end of the straps and fold them under and pin, then pin the end of the straps to the backpack. Sew a "square" to keep the straps in place on the backpack. You can see in the middle picture I forgot to leave my hole in the backpack, and I had to take a seam ripper to it. Whoops.
Finishing the Backpack
Tuck the straps in and put the two pieces of the backpack together, with "wrong" sides facing out. Sew entirely around the edges. Then turn the backpack inside out using the hole we left earlier. The last step is to stuff the inner stuffing into the backpack then sew up the hole.
Inside Stuffing
Fold fabric in half and trace the original pattern with the two backpack pieces together. Sew the two pieces together, leaving a small opening for stuffing. Turn inside out and stuff with cotton, then sew up the hole.
Fill the backpack with this inner stuffing and sew up the hole. If you find the backpack doesn't adequately mold over the inner stuffing, then stuff some cotton in the corners before sewing up the final hole. Cut a little circle and fabric glue it onto the backpack to mimic the button.
Done!
Dangerously Delicious
These red velvet cupcakes are topped with buttercream frosting, broken caramelized sugar, and jelly.
Recipe
Red Velvet Cupcakes
1 stick butter, softened
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 oz red food coloring
2 TBSP cocoa (heaping)
1 cup buttermilk
2 1/4 c. cake flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1tsp. baking soda
Directions:
1. Cream together butter and sugar
2. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition
3. In another bowl, add buttermilk and cake flour alternately. Mix well, but do not over beat
4. Add vanilla flavoring
5. Blend the baking soda into the batter
6. Transfer into cupcake pans
7. Bake in pre-heated 350 degree oven for 15-25 minutes
Broken Glass
3 1/2 Cups of Sugar
2 Cups of Water
1/4 Tsp. of Cream of Tartar
1 Cup of Corn Syrup
Directions:
This can be a very difficult process. Be prepared for multiple batches. It took me 3. First, pour all ingredients into a large saucepan and stir. Next, turn the heat onto medium-high. Stir constantly at first--if the mixture heats too quickly near the bottom it will caramelize. A candy thermometer is highly recommended. When the mixture reaches 300 degrees, take it off. If you don't have a candy thermometer, then you'll have to eyeball it. It can take about an hour and the substance should be an amber color; Another test if you don't have a thermometer is to dip a spoon in, then pour cold water over it and feel the substance. It should not be sticky.
Place tinfoil over a cookie pan and grease it. When you take the mixture off the heat, pour it immediately.
Blood
You could use cherry dessert topping but I wanted something thick and disgusting, so I used jelly. Sounds weird on a cupcake, right? It turned out really delicious. I used Polaner's Strawberry jelly.
Frosting
Yep, I took the easy way out with a can of whipper buttercream frosting.
