Friday, July 20, 2012

Final Fantasy X Embroidery Story


Thought this was a wicked cool picture. Well, without further adieu, i finally got the time to work on and come nearly close to finishing my X costume. I have no pictures of the staff because it is actually at my fathers work, getting the top silver piece done.

I mean the piece that attaches the gold head, and the blue staff to each other with enough support that the entire staff doesn't fall apart... hopefully that'll be done by Saturday-- considering the convention is-- six days away now @_@. But what you've all been waiting for-- embroidery


As you recall, the skirt previously looked much like this-- just a normal blue pleated skirt--

The flowers looked like this prior to be embroidered, and we used my mother's new brother pe 770 to do so. :D Learn more about this process here.



With Azure's help, we drew out the general pattern with some chalk onto the skirt. Then we took the normal sewing machine, which my mom actually got a new one, and did a really tight zig zag stitch with a thread that had a little bit of shine to it.


The pins are just there to hold the pleats until the day of the convention. Um, uh, it was obnoxious and annoying, and I shed a lot of tears.


Final skirt. :D Only thing that's needed would be a little slit in the side (considering i currently cannot go up stairs). And now to the Obi!


So if you recall, the Obi originally looked like this. Me and my mom made all the embroidery patterns for it, stitch by stitch, in a program called buzzedit. This program is not for the weak of heart.


It's a very odd program, and involved a lot of copy and pasting from previous designs. After we finally got the design finished and looking close to the anime, we had to size it.



Glued thick paper to the back with temporary adhesive to give the embroidery the ability to stand on it's own.


We printed them out, life size, and then adjusted and changed them as needed; which was probably the hardest-- awkwardest-- thing that i've ever done for cosplay. Ha. And then the embroidery started. (If you ever need any of these patterns for an embroidery machine and you have no idea what you're doing, feel free to email me at acroymsoup66@hotmail.com and i'll give them to you!)


The image that I showed you, in PE design is the embroidery going down the center of the obi here.


The obi's pattern in full. I couldn't get the whole pattern because I happen to be skinnier then yuna, but i used the following picture as a template and tried to get it all correct in the front, and then-- look better for my shape in the back considering most of it is covered by the bow.



It's then got velcro on the back to keep it together, cause i make a poser obi instead of a real one :D


Left to do for this is to embroider the dark blue by hand in the middle of the circle, because the machine couldn't do it. It ended up getting all caught up in the machine and almost completely broke it, so i don't recommend doing this. And I have to figure out a way to do the flower above the circle-- which i also have no idea how to do.

Anyways. Happy Cosplay! :D More very soon!

More pictures:




Next up! Hibiscuses for the masses.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Last for Updates Not Mine-- Lenne


And here we go. One more time. Just one more costume. Aha, that's what I keep telling myself to keep me working on them.


She ordered a wig off of ebay, and is now proving difficult to keep it untangled. Will be buying wig brush and wig head within the week. Lol @ long wigs.


The shirt was made entirely by guesses and lots of screw ups. It proved difficult because wendy is not lacking in the-- how do i politely put this-- breast department-- unlike Lenne. (Wendy if you're offended by that let me know-- though I doubt it-- it isn't like it's not common knowledge). We bought matching material to make the sleeves, but they're still on the assembly line like everything else.

 Um. Besides that, there's a giant snap in the middle, to keep the two halves together covered up by the frills. The frills were made from the same dye to make my shirt, despite looking completely different. And then sewn on with a straight stitch. They look like a half circle in the back, and I really wish I could've taken a picture of her with it on, cause it looks a million times better than this.


Wendy sports some brwon boots, and still needs the large cream colored socks that go past her boot line-- remember this Wendy. Besides that, she wears a skirt that I gave her, that I was going to give to good will, underneath her nice new lacy skirt.


You can kinda see how see through it is here. Sort of.

Next thing we work on for this will either be her sleeves or the wonderful earrings that she wears. Which we've also met a stale point with. What's the cheep way to buy beads? o-0..

Happy Cosplay! :D