Well, the aforementioned Big Cosplay Blitz yielded very few results, unfortunately, but it turned out for the best - both of the costumes I had started work on were intended for a competition on the Saturday morning of Amecon, when it poured with rain. I'm therefore taking this to be a good thing, as both costumes would probably have been ruined in ( Read more... )

Now, maybe I'm being foolishly optimistic - it wouldn't be the first time - but I have two costumes to have finished by Thursday evening, and I believe it can be done. As such, even though I have a ton of work to do for my job (all of which has to be done for Monday morning), I'm dubbing the next five-and-a-bit days the big cosplay blitz! I have ( Read more... )

Last night was spent pinning and cutting out several pieces of turquoise polycotton, and I've just now taken delivery of a large package of various different colours of suedette. Amecon projects #2 and #3 are go!

Photos will follow soon...

( My costume! )

I've now applied the bias binding to the skirt of the dress, as you can see here:


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I have achieved my Amecon cosplay goal - having a more-or-less completed costume finished in less than a month!


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So, since my last update I have attached my collar to my dress, and on Wednesday I went to the crafts group we have in my office (I say it's a crafts group, it's actually mostly knitters, with one or two embroiderers and me with my sewing), where I finished attaching my zip to the back of my dress. And here's how it looked:


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This costume is proving to be a learning curve for me on various levels. It's been a while since I've made a Chinese dress, and last time I tried I made a complete hash of it (it was back in those dark days when I was a lazy cosplayer who didn't care much for things like darting and interfacing ( Read more... )

This afternoon (Tuesday - it still counts as this afternoon because I haven't been to bed yet) I went to my local fabric shop to pick up some supplies for my next cosplay project. Unfortunately I was in a bit of a rush, so while I'm quite happy with the fabric and my choice of pattern, it wasn't until about 20 minutes ago that I discovered I'd ( Read more... )

A little late on this - London Expo was a week ago now - but I did kinda go on holiday immediately after the Expo was over :P

Anyway, lots of photos were taken (thanks to kuro2shiro). I haven't sorted through the general cosplay photos yet and will probably put them up in a Facebook gallery rather than on here (this is my cosplay LJ, after all). But in the ( Read more... )