Gettin da parts done :} Yuna X-2

I have done a lot with both costumes, and the help of my mother, and boyfriend. So much, that I have decided to post them in two separate posts. :D If you like this one, make sure that you subscribe to our blog so that you can see the others! :D

 Armbands

The armbands were made by using a thick stabilizer, and then sewing the cotton to it. They're then laced up with the same white "string" that I used on my top, because I haven't gotten around to buying black string yet <<;. Me and my wonderful mother have been so worried about the rest of the costume, that small details like these slipped. Besides that though, I like the way they turned out :D

Used a little machine to put the snappy things in, except we ran out of black snappy things, so we could only do one armband for the time being. Ordered some more off of Amazon though, so they should be coming momentarily, and then I will have a pair! :D

Z-Symbol

Boyfriend and AzureStarlight (which you can add her facebook page here.) make fun of me cause for the life of me, i can't spell, and Zanarchand is one of those words. So we're calling it the Z-symbol from now on. I've tried three ways of making it, hot glue, wood, and clay. 

First, AzureStarlight and Yuri (boyfriend), helped me to trace the hole in my top, to ensure that it was the right size.Then, after that, using an ipad. We stretched the Z-symbol pattern from the anime itself, and fit it to the newly cut out pattern. AzureStarlight then traced the pattern, so that the symbol and it were the same size. :D The light from the ipad, truly helped with this progress.

Option 1: The clay one was made using air-dry crayola clay. The problem with it was, the pattern that it was built on top of, was made of paper. The clay was a little bit moist, so when the paper and clay began drying together; the paper began to crinkle, and the clay began to crack. :{

Option 2: Making it out of hot glue. Boyfriend put layers upon layers of hot glue onto the symbol itself, and then we are alternating to melt it down and add hot glue to the spots it needs to. I feel like I like this option the best because it's three dimensional and it also is incredibly flexible, however it takes tons of time and patience so me and him tend to only look at it when there's nothing else to do.

Option 3: Mother than took things into her own hands. She cut out a piece of wood, from some of the scraps of my guns (guns ;~;-- still unfinished). I'll probably paint it and keep it in-case the hot glue one doesn't come out correctly and/or I don't get around to finishing it.

The Shirt

Thankfully, the shirt had a pattern. Thankfully meaning, the skirt from X is driving Momma bonkers because there is no pattern and she's the only one that can sew in a straight line. <<; Sorry Momma. So, we took the pattern that the shirt was made out of, and added a ribbed pattern to the bottom of it, to give it the texture that the shirt from X-2 has, and of course, cut out the eyelet.

Sounds simple, right? Ha. The problem with the material is it was incredibly stretchy, and I am incredibly skinny. Plus, the z-symbol had to go in the front, and if it were to be fragile at all, pulling this top over my head and back every time could cause the z-symbol to break :{. Ergo, we put in a zipper and some little snaps.

Also, picking lace was painstaking. We wanted stretch lace, which of course they don't sell at any of the fabric stores around here. Mommy, during all her breaks at work, looked for the lace and ordered a bunch of different kinds, and picking two was actually really hard. I wanted two that would match well with each other, and this also made mommy mad. However, I found two that I think are beautiful, and they ended up on the bottom of the top.

Things yet to do: Finish Z-symbol, add lace to the bottom of the un-made skirt that matches the top, and then of course figure out something to do about a bra. Just don't look at the frowny face.

The "Satchel" and Belt

The problem here was finding the material. We were looking for a suede that wasn't brown and wasn't white and wasn't orange. Which, is seemingly impossible to find. I was worried about ordering online, because you can never really tell what color fabric is online :{ We (Mom, Boyfriend and I) ended up finding a vinyl, that's the correct color in one of those scrap fabric bins. So we began to make the "Satchel" out of that.

Guess it's a good time to tell you that over the weekend i also graduated, ergo the graduation duck. Lol. :D Anyways. We stole a belt buckle from a  cheap walmart belt (and the belt was really ugly might I add), and we just have decorations to put on it. I layed them out in the next photo. The only thing I don't like is the color of the fringe, which I will be changing, as soon as I find something that looks better <<;

In Conclusion...

I decided not to show you any of the whole costume pictures of all the pieces put together until the end of this cosplay session, which is i guess in 76 days :{ Otakon is so close.

Quick list of changes i'm going to make:

• Different color strangles
• D-links and decorations on belt bag
• Snap on belt bag
• Black tie on arm bands (as well as two of them...)
• Edges of the bag :D
• Leather Cuff for wrist 
• White Shoe laces for boots (not pictured)
• And... My guns (;~;)

Beware of a post coming about Yuna from X, as well as progress on some of the other costumes from the group (AzureStarlight needs to post badly), and progress on my guns (;~;). Until then, Happy Cosplay! :D