Completed: October 2016 Hours Spent: Approximately 30 Debuted: Anime North Texas Why This Costume: After A-Fest, the Cosmic Coterie crew decided we wanted to switch up our fukus a bit and decided we wanted to go Super! Our affiliates expressed interest in joining us to have a full set of senshi again, so I offered to take the role of … Continue reading Costume Notes: Super and Regular Sailor Pluto
Category: Costume Notes
10 Essential Tips for First Time Commissioners
1. Be brutally honest with yourself: Before starting commissions, you absolutely need to ask yourself the following questions: What am I willing to do? Are you good with wigs? What about foam? Or resin? Or leather? The idea here is to ask yourself what type of work you excel at and emphasize it. For example, … Continue reading 10 Essential Tips for First Time Commissioners
Skirt
I'm very excited to share a new tutorial with all of you! The Cosmic Coterie crew and I are super close to being finished with our Supers upgrades for ANT, and we also managed to get two tutorials published today. The one linked here is on how we construct our skirts, since that's one of … Continue reading Skirt
Costume Notes: Angel Dust (Deadpool)
Completed: October 2016 Hours Spent: Approximately 10 hours Debuted: Dallas Comic Con Fan Days Why This Costume: This costume was partly a matter of convenience, partly a matter of wanting to cosplay with Callula, and partly a nudge from everyone and their dog. As I mentioned in my last post, I was out of the country for a week on … Continue reading Costume Notes: Angel Dust (Deadpool)
Bows Tutorial – Cosmic Coterie
Big news to share! I've been working with the Cosmic Coterie on creating a comprehensive fuku tutorial. We're releasing it in increments over the next several weeks, and the first one up is our bow process! I digitized all of our patterns to take the guesswork out of creating these. You can check out the full … Continue reading Bows Tutorial – Cosmic Coterie
Costume Notes: Super Sailor Chibi Moon
Completed: August 2016 Hours Spent: About 40 hours Debuted: AnimeFest 2016 Why This Costume: This was a Cosmic Coterie group effort to complete Super ChibiMoon for the lovely PockyPants! ChibiMoon is her favorite character, so when we had a chance to do some recasting, we decided that she should get a new fuku! How I made it: Since this … Continue reading Costume Notes: Super Sailor Chibi Moon
Costume Notes: Pokemon Go Trainer
Completed: August 2016 Hours Spent: About 15 Debuted: A-Fest 2016 Why This Costume: Not gonna lie... This was mostly to join the Pokemon Go hype train, haha. But honestly, it was a fortuitous build. I really enjoy playing the game, I had about 85% of the necessary materials on hand, and I also wanted an easy to wear costume. … Continue reading Costume Notes: Pokemon Go Trainer
Costume Notes: Super Sailor Jupiter
Completed: July 2016 Hours Spent: Eh... probably 40 hours start to finish Debuted: AMA-Con 2016 Why This Costume: It should be apparent by now that Sailor Jupiter is by far my favorite senshi. I knew immediately after joining the Luxe Dolls that I wanted to make a version of Sailor Jupiter for myself, even before I was cast … Continue reading Costume Notes: Super Sailor Jupiter
Costume Notes: Agent Carter (red dress)
This is a slightly different post today in that this was a commission build for my friend Lady Amaralidi! She approached me a little while back asking if I could help her with this build since she planned to meet Hayley Atwell at Wizard World Philly. I ADORE Peggy's wardrobe in Agent Carter, so of … Continue reading Costume Notes: Agent Carter (red dress)
Costume Notes: Mistress 9 (Sailor Moon)
So... long time no see. Apologies for yet another belated absence. I won't bore y'all with a bunch of silly details. The long and short is that I've been creatively drained for a while and felt the need to step back. I feel mostly recharged, and I'm looking forward to getting back into content creation! … Continue reading Costume Notes: Mistress 9 (Sailor Moon)
The Geeky Seamstress 