Progress!!

So,
That darned cloak/cape/backthingy. After designing my very own pattern, lovingly taping newspaper together, taking over the back and front rooms of my house and cutting it out of a bedsheet...
It didnt work.
(ProTip: ALWAYS use a bedsheet to test out a pattern, particually for something this large)

Sad face.

BUT! I designed a new pattern. This second one sits higher on my shoulders and is a better fit around my arms. Plus its more swooshy. Swoosh is better than swag... so they say. So I say.

The pattern itself is very simple. It is just two halves pinned together! Follow these simple directions to create your very own Midna cloak! ><

1) Get your bedsheet. Lay it out folded in half.

2) Lie down with the fold of the sheet along the middle of your body. Grab a marker and ruler and place a dot just past your shoulder blade, close to your neck. MAKE SURE You need to have enough material above your head to make the sleeves.

3) Mark out a cutting line from the top of the bedsheet to your shoulder dot and cut out that rectangle, leaving a small (think 3-5 cm) for attaching the hood.

4) Fold down the remaining part of the sheet to create a rectangle on top of your sheet. If you were to pin this now, you would have simple, square, flowy sleeves! Yay! 

5) Grab your marker again! Place a dot at the very end of your fingertips with your arms stretched out perpindicular to your body. (at a right angle for non-mathy people)

6) Place another dot just past your elbow.

7) Draw a nice curve from the fingertip dot to the elbow dot and cut this out.

8) If you havent done already, cut out the other side. By keeping the bedsheet folded and cutting both sides at the same time, your final pattern will be nice and even. Unless you can't seem to cut in a straight line... like me. :D

9) Pin the sleeves to the cloak and Voila! Put the cloak on carefully and test it for size, comfort, length etc. Again, make sure the top seam of the cloak sits nice and high on your shoulders, even a bit over, as this will stop the entire thing from pulling at the sleeves and hood.

 

TIP: try to find a king bed sheet, not a single, as the single wont have the length you need to create a full pattern.
If you do use this method, let me know! I would LOVE to see how it turns out for others :)
I will also upload a scan of my pattern, with measurements and all that jazz. Happy sewing! 

Heads are rolling... :|

Literally...

But only foam heads. It fell off my desk whilst trying to comb The Wig. (I say The Wig as it seems to be sentient.)

So after gentle persuading and sticky tape, I succeeded in securing the wig head to my desk. And the following 'styling'.

It involved a lot of moouse, combing and again, gentle persuasion.

 

  
I am aiming for a less static wig. One that doesn't look like it has been hit with 6 cans of hairspray and some Gel for good measure. I want the wig to look real. As much as it can anyway. 
So I decided (with a designers help. yay for connections) to wrap the hair around the fringe, instead of it just... ending. It looks more natural. And the bangs will move around, like natural hair.
Huzzah.














Update complete. bed time. x

So. Redoing the blog thing. Sure.

:|

The partner suggested I make a blog about my current project. That is, remaking a cosplay. My Midna cosplay to be exact true form). So here goes.

Lets start with the list of things that need to be done, and if I have, in fact, done them. :D

Wig - own, but not yet styled.

Cloak and skirt - have purchased the fabric and re-designed the pattern of the cloak to me more supportive of itself and comfier.

Belt - have rough ideas but nothing tangilbe as yet

Anklets - as above.

Head piece - the amazing father is in the process of fixing up the old one as there really isn't anything wrong with it. Beside the fact it's broken that is. In two places. and needs re-painting.

That's it for now. I'll upload pictures and jazz. 

probably...

evening. x