“We’re talking about kissing and I’m still wearing the ears…” “This is the weirdest Q and A ever.” “Ahh! I still have the ears on!”
wow… i totally forgot i had ears on… and why do i have ears…
only in christchurch.
Ahhhhh, the ears.Yes. pretty sure I got caught out wearing tiger ears presenting the cosplay one year at Christchurch Armageddon (so on stage as well). They are so light aren’t they? So easy to forget you are wearing them. And aren’t they just wonderfully enhappy-nating? They make everyone smile, even the grump who doesn’t really want to admit that they are amused in a good way. Sorry I didn’t make it to any panel, hope your stay here was nice, if brief and surprising!
“Do you ever think that maybe there’s something more out there?”
“What do you mean, evolution?”
“I don’t know, like, that there’s some greater purpose for all these animals I’m making, other than just eating and pooping and having little animals.”
“I guess I hadn’t really thought about it.”
“I just wonder what the point is sometimes. What’s stopping me from going off the rails and making this sage grouse look completely absurd? Why don’t I just give it demon eyes and ridiculous inflatable chest balloons? Who cares? What difference does it make?”
“Aw, come on, don’t talk like that.”
“Why not? Seriously, I’m going to do it. See if anyone stops me. Bet you they won’t.”
OMG! See, female Turians can haz boobs!
I shall hide now. My own brain hurts and now i don’t know if I can finish Nyreen at all now…
The Obi is actually an underbust corset cut way down. It doesn’t show the effect so much because the mannequin is slimmer than me at the hips and bigger through the waist 😉 But I need it for comfort’s sake: pressure on my ribs is something I avoid as much as possible.
So:
Inner tunic tank tee with welts, sew down the selvage to avoid stretch, then cut on the bias to fit the front. Tall collar is tall and actually is the length of my neck.. ehem, it’ll be scrunched a little so I don’t look like I’m in a brace. It’s a super soft knit faux suede.
To do: face sleeves??? in matching knit to the darker aspects of the costume.
Loose tunic in mechincal stretch crepe with flared and split sleeves, all edged bound in (woven mechanical stretch) faux suede, self made and ironed.
To do: possible hooks and eyes CF
Tabbards in faux suede bound in ditto, shaped at the waist and satin stitched together to reduce bulk
Obi: glazed brown cotton and plain white canvas sewn as one, seam allowances top stitch to create soft support. Dark faux suede bound top and bottom, secondary layer of same stitched down. Obi overlayer/pale decoration cut and sewn by overlocker then hand sewn in place.
To do: hammer holes in the back and gather the obi “wrap” which will hide the lacing but be permanently attached.
Pants: same soft faux suede as the the inner tunic. Terrible back shape so as to stay in place….
Twi’lek headdress: dark faux suede shaped to lower half of head, wide strip of same sewn above and three large pin tucks sewn. Wide elastic threaded through to create the three rows seen in art- but allows for the whole thing to suction to my head.
To do: hooks and eyes at chin and forehead, decorative piece to cover the closure. Cut holes for ear buds/nubbins and see if I can make them small ish.
Lekku: Cleaned and painted purple.
To do: last layer of paint and stripes. Ick. Not looking forward to the stripes.
i just hid 27 of these little bastards around the house
and im waiting for my parents reaction
”WHY THE SHIT IS THERE A CHICKEN IN MY COFFEE CUP” the first chicken has been found
“amiee we think you have a problem” my parents say as they hold 15 tiny chickens in their hands
1000 notes because i terrorized my family with small chickens
I like this person’s sense of humour..yesssss
My friend did something very similar with tiny wooden ducks. They were hard to spot because they were muted colours and I am shortsighted. “Bug or bird?” was my reaction for a while.
Excellent 🙂 I hope it helps 🙂 Funnily enough if you put Project Runway on mute and just watch the background when they are in the workroom you can pick up a lot of ideas for how to drape and draft :).
Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always one person at the table who holds up her hand when I serve the cake. No, really, I couldn’t she says, and then gives her flat stomach a conspiratorial little pat. Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn’t a person with discipline; that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy. A slice of cake never made anybody fat. You don’t eat the whole cake. You don’t eat a cake every day of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace that’s safe, uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what’s served on the happiest days of your life. This is a story of how my life was saved by cake, so, of course, if sides are to be taken, I will always take the side of cake.
Reblogging for fab @eddieizzard and a philosophy I want to live by and rarely do. I usually am the one passing on the cake- though not out of smugness but of shame installed by what people will assume if I have it . I do though have baby fish (ummm… these are marshmallow coated in chocolate) and hot chocolate at will when I feel really bad/under stress or celebrating. So I go through a lot of each at Armageddon 😉
It’s taken me this long to realize that Obi-Wan is riding a veractyl in Episode III, and they are like all over Belsavis and I watch these movies regularly.
I was soooo excited to see them in game and got very sad that as an Empire player I get to hunt them. Yeah no, Buioware, don’t make me target behbeh ones either…… My bounty hunter especially does not want. Neither does Tykhi.
It’ll be interesting how my behbeh Chiss agent deals with it. So far she and Kaliyo are just shooting their way past anyone in their path including local fauna. I would skirt as many as possible with my BH and Inq 😉
Currently light side costuming. Mainly I want a costume I don’t have to be glued into and is relatively easy to use the loo. So sick of getting sick from costumes that once on stay on until the end of the day with no food, drink or loo breaks.
industrialarts said: question!!! what kind of stitching do you use for the inner vest/shirt? Ive been meaning to make a neck seal for my Mandalorian costume but Ive tried a few times and it always looks so horrible.
I first took the full width of fabric and made the basic lines: I basically pin tucked the back- overlocked/serged in one go. The fabric twisted a bit but not enough to be a worry. Then I machine stitched each tuck to make the spaces a little bit narrower.
Then cut both front pieces on the bias sewed the front seam (which is slightly S shaped) and finally topstitched the tucks from the topside, making sure all the tucks lay pointing down.
There is only enough to be seen, so that I could still be comfortable- there are so many layers at the waist I’m a little worried 😉
Also the machine stitching on top is very very short. A lesson learnt from Victorian period techniques where the tiny stitches make it look hand sewn or sewn by anything other than an industrial machine 😉
Another tip though: knit fabric will creep at different rates under the serger/overlocker and sewing machine. I help the fabric through by alternately stretching and pushing the fabric as needed. It’s a feel thing, something that takes practice to do. I also rarely pin fabrics any more- if I can’t hold the fabric in place then it’s probably going to need to be basted. Velvet. And slippery poly chiffon or slippery silk habotai etc…
And finally faux suede has a nap that can drag on the sewing plate r foot if you sew against it. And coated fabrics can also do the same thing. Except glazed. That obi has glazed cotton on the outside so far and it’s wonderful to sew. There is a reason it was ideal for Victorian garments.
Next up is to make the lekku again. I was going to strip back my Talon Lekku because that would be easier. But I wore her when I met lovely people and I have such very strong memories tied in that I cant. They are just going to be retired as they are 🙂
I have three bottles of white airbrush ink to tint and the “crappy” latex should still be fine for this project. I need to water it down anyway 🙂 And have a day where I can spend time out in the workroom with a fully functioning brain.
There should be just enough of the faux suede to make the wee helmet, which nicely hides the entire hairline. Body paint is easy peasy when you aren’t also trying to blend prosthethic seams….
Now I also need to see what kind of lightsaber she uses and decide to just use what I have or use some of the piping dug out from under the house (I am incredibly happy we got all our plumbing replaced after a house fire in 07 but boy did they leave a lot of pieces under the house!) Yay for some funky pieces for random buttons on random props.
So to bed so I can have a head start in the morning. While doing this I have also started a nice historian style outfit from some rust red-brown raw silk. I will be offering it to anyone in NZ as a bribe *ehem* to join he rebel Legion. I have helped a lot of RL members over the years just not so many locally.
Hense why I am having an open workshop this weekend and plan to pass on costume pieces 🙂 The crepe used for the tunic was a great and cheap find. I want to say Nick’s Fabrics but it may have been Geoff’s Emporium. But I got it essentially for my Shaak Ti (The Force Unleashed) costume. Yes I bought 15m just tomake sure i had enough for what took 1m tops.
I kind of want to make Master Fay’s robes from it too….
