Monday, June 25, 2012

The Youngest of the Family


I was going to go into Elma now, but for some reason the blog entry didn't save, and i'm kind of covered in watermelon so we'll skip to Rikku. My dear Rikku. I have very little pictures for her, but we really are doing stuff. I promise.




First off, Anna Maria is in-charged of making the scarf and the armbands. Neither of which I have pictures of. Sorry guys. Maybe if anna comes over soon, i'll be able to hijack them and do a quick photoshoot. Anna also needs to pain those beads so I can string them through the Rikku wig.


Which looks like this if you forgot. It also needs it's headband which is on my to do list. I was really hoping to find a scrap of blue material, but it's not turning up so I might just need to cave.


Put little eye-lits (is that how you spell that?) in the bikini, don't think I have enough cord to correctly tie this. I dunno, I'll look later. Debating about chopping off the yellow piece that actually holds the two together now that it has prettier holds. I don't know though. May seem like a waste.


Made the skirt, it's actually got the pleats in the correct place, which was by accident actually. It's a little high for my liking, and longer than the actual skirt is supposed to be. But mom won't let me make it any lower (even though, what girl doesn't wear low wasted pants nowadays?). She is the youngest of the group, at 15, which is why I agreed that the skirt should be longer in the first place.

No Ass cheeks showing here. No. Stay away from her boys or meet my pistols. Dx


Two little bags top it off with  no decorations. Maybe they'll get some by the time I post this... Hmm..

Happy Cosplay regardless. :D

Friday, June 22, 2012

Elma Elma Elma.



I think you should listen to this song while reading this, because it's the song I'm listening to, and it is going to be stuck in my head all day, I assure you. Onto the subject of the bee, i mean -cough- Elma.


Her chair spot. As promised. There's not as many pictures in this one, so I guess i'll just do it the straight forward way. With no lefts and rights and aligns. :{


Now you see why we call her the bee? We're trying to get all of her sewing done so that *SHE* can begin making her armor. The sewing's the hard part right ;]. If anyone has any suggestions on making armor, I suggest you message her. Considering, this is her first cosplay, and she wants to do the shit right. I'm a bomb that's about to explode~~ Oh, wrong song.


Put brown ribbon up the middle, as well as stabilizer (medium weight I believe) in the front to help the shirt keep it's shape under all that armor. :D


The back looks nearly the same, except she used wonderful zipper camouflage.  The skirt however completely pooped out tux. (he doesn't like pleats)


We found a pattern to help with the making of the skirt, which was nice when it came to the whole pleating issue, compared to the making of my skirt.


This is a picture of the beautiful skirt upon completion. :D

Now i guess that it's abouts times to get started on the leggings-- except they're being worked on behind me... Time to go help with my wonderful oppinion.

Happy Cosplay :D

And... Gippal is up to Bat


The cape is obviously the hardest part of this costume, ergo we decided to start with this first. Although it's not all the way done (still needs some minor gluing), it was a lot of work and has taken me nearly two weeks with enough hands to feed an army helping.


Wonderful signs I made to keep everyone organized. :D And I'm kind of using them as transitions, on Facebook as well as here.


I don't know why blogger is making me do this weird formatting instead of just putting them side by side like normal people but... whatever.









Um. We traced and measured out the stripes and originally didn't taper the stripes to fit the cape, despite niki's warnings. We obviously had to re-do them, and with this measured and remeasured the stripes. 






I fastened the cape with paper clips while we measured the stripes out, they kind of provided the needed support to actually visualize the thing. The cape itself is made out of a really thin poster board that I then covered in fabric via hot glue because the sewing machine has one hell-of-a-time going through all the fabric and poster board. Burnt a lot of my fingers that way. I told Gippal he wasn't allowed in any hallway contests <<;




Tried 3 million different things, and then decided on this rope which I can't for the life of me remember the measurements of it. However, it was cheap (.50 a yard), and then I used quilter's tape to put around it, which was 2.99 for 3 yards. Cutting the quilter's tape down the middle hot dog style, i made double use of it, and ended up with pretty decently cheap and good looking lining. (unless you look at the back of anything of course).








Mom was nice enough to then sew this around each and every little stripe, and the along the sides of the collar itself, which had to be hand sewn back down later on, just because some of the sewing machine stitches ended up popping out.



Stole one of Niki's ideas to make these little square pieces that go on the ends. Pierced brads through squares that measured a little less than 2x2. Made a pattern piece and then poked each piece individually to ensure that they all looked perfect.







And then I painted them grey! :D With some awesome 20 for one dollar brushes that I got on sale at Michaels. The paint doesn't stick well on the brads but I figure that's Sam's problem to figure out <<; Unless someone has a suggestion?







They just need to be put on their respected stripes now, except I'm out of fabric glue and I think that it'll work better than my magical hot glue gun. Disregard the fact that this square isn't perfectly placed on the stripe. <<; On to the grommets!!! :D And that is exactly what they are. We tried for like a week to find the perfect sized circles, only to find out that curtains have giant hoops on them as well...




Well, they're called grommets. And unfortunately you can't buy them in sets of two. So this was i think 8, can't read the package because i'm slightly blind right now. but it was a whopping 12.99, which I payed for with a 50% off coupon. The people at these stores must hate me.










This is the final result. Although, it needs some gluing. Don't look at the inside please...

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Skirt flowers down :D



Okayyy. Back to Final Fantasy ten now that i've-- made Gippal's Cloak, made Rikku's skirt, helped paine with her shawl thing (is that what that should be called?), headbands, um-- and everything else that doesn't make much sense when it comes to final fantasy ten. Mainly cause we're in an alternative reality right now-- nerd joke-- get it?


Momma got this embroidery machine for her birthday and it's seemed like a god blessing when it comes to this costume. Haven't seen anyone else do their flowers with an actual embroidery machine yet! It's a brother p770, and takes a lot of weird files and loads of fun complicated things.


This is the pattern that we bought from an embroidery website (here.) We (mainly Niki actually), removed the leaves, re-colored the flower itself, and removed the happy holidays (Because the flower was supposed to be a Pointsetta-- though most Pointsetta's don't look like this). Wow that's a lot of parenthesis in a paragraph.


The flowers had to then be uploaded via a usb, and then put into the machine itself. We made three different sizes... Which i thought I had a picture of i guess i don't. There were three different sizes, and then I placed all the little flowers and pinned them to the skirt where I wanted mom to put them. She then embroidered the entire skirt for me :D


Here are all the flowers done. Now i'm working on getting my main artist over here to draw the scribbles on the skirt, which we'll do on a normal sewing machine, as per mom. Uhhh. I guess that's it? Sorry I don't have more pictures. Happy Cosplay! :D

I'll probably have a giant post soon about all the other costumes and their progress as per nobody uploads their blogs, though they are all authors on here-- <<;;;. Back to sewing!