How to Resize Patterns
So you’ve found the perfect pattern for your next project but it’s not in the right size, well never fear there are lots of different ways to resize a pattern to get just the right fit. No matter which method…
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Mermista Cosplay Tutorial
I’ve said this before, but I really love doing group cosplays. There is something so fun about having a bunch of people running around from the same show, the sense of camaraderie is excellent, so of course when Steph wanted…
She-Ra Cosplay Tutorial
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix. I never watched the original show, but the reboot is delightfully queer, and deals with complex relationships and feelings. It’s a great children’s show! Hands down one of my…
Monster Mermaid Cosplay Tutorial
Most of the time when I make a cosplay I start with a design and then start selecting materials, but when I found the Yaya Han scale fabric on sale I could resit, and decided I definitely needed to make…
Little Witch Academia Cosplay Tutorial
Making Diana Cavendish was a fun sewing challenge, for the most part it was familiar skills but there were a couple of interesting problems I needed to figure out as I went. Overall, I was incredibly pleased with how the…
Marinette Dupain-Cheng Cosplay Tutorial
Marinette is relatively flexible in terms of difficulty, a significant amount of the costume can be purchased or you can choose to make it from scratch. I went with a middle approach, so in this post I’ll give suggestions for…
Vice Admiral Holdo Cosplay Tutorial
Vice Admiral Holdo was an interesting challenge in draping and construction, it involved a fair amount of experimentation, and a whole lot of swearing. Deconstructing movie costumes is always interesting, it’s a puzzle process to figure out how they made…
Mina Han Cosplay Tutorial
Want to join the Battle Chef Brigade? Than you’re going to need your own uniform! This post will walk you through my Mina Han cosplay, with construction notes, tips and tricks. You can check out my video walk through for…
Ever After Cosplay: Accessories
There are a number of important accessories that make up this costume, which this post will be going over. For information on other parts of the Breathe Ever After cosplay head to the following posts: Planning process Corset Dress Part…
Ever After Cosplay: The Dress part 3
Once the skirt and bodice are assembled it’s time to start on the sleeves, which are in essence elaborate tubes of trim. There is no curving or particularly fancy shaping, but there are trims, so much trim and thus so…
Ever After Cosplay: The Dress part 2
With the dress assembled it was time for the finishing touches. I use that phrase loosely because this finishing took way longer than the initial construction, which isn’t including the odyssey of finding the trims. With much trial and error…
Ever After Cosplay: The Dress part 1
As a child I remember dressing up in many attempts to wear this dress, White skirts and shirts with lots of glitter, or a vaguely period dress in our dress up box, but it was never quite the same. After…
Ever After Cosplay: Corset
A dress is only as good as its support, or something like that… In this case the Breathe dress needs a non decorative under corset to support the wings and other bits (boobs, I’m talking about boobs). As an empire…
Alanna the Lioness Cosplay Tutorial
I am incredibly proud of this costume, I realized a character I have loved since I first picked up the Song of the Lioness Quartet. If you too want to be the Champion of Tortall, the Lioness Rampant, then I…
Lady Urbosa Cosplay Turorial
I misjudged this cosplay, some part of me looked at it and thought, “Sure that’s mostly fabric.” I was in fact pretty wrong. Sure, there was some fabric, but a very small amount. Rather I had unwittingly stumbled upon a…