2 posts tagged “alice”

Remaining Tasks
 

• jeans (80%)
  
• suspenders (75%)
  

Finished off the shirt, which leave me to tidy up the jeans and make the back of the suspenders more accurate. Then sometime near the end of this week it's off to the arcade for a DDR shoot. :D Playing Dance Dance *as* a character? XD

The last thing I had to do to the shirt was to paint it. So, much like the creation of my Rei Ayanyaami boots, the water soluble marker and taping off of edges really came in handy. After I had my design drawn on all that was left to do was to tape the edges for a cleaner finish (although this didn't work flawlessly this time it still came out looking great) and fill in my stenciled area.

There was a lot of waiting in between layers because I painted over it twice to ensure the proper opacity and had to wait for it to dry before I removed the tape and moved on to another cluster of taped sections. In the end it proved worth it. Here is a picture of how it is looking right now. I need to take a second to finish off the lower hem, but that will take literally one minute to do. Yay!
Tonight I will be restitching loose edges that I have found as well as adding on a few belt loops and re-attaching my button. If I have time (which I most likely will) I will be finishing off the suspenders, too. I need to nest attend to the finer details of finishing my Bonne Jenet as well as the accessories for the Shadowloo Dolls and Cammy White. Anime Expo is in less than two weeks now! Time to kick this into overdrive!

Oh! And one last thing! Here is a sneak peek at my newly completed Mireille Bouquette.  I didn't bother to blog the process at is was retardly easy and I am already covering shirts/skirts in more substantial blogs. The most difficult part of this was punching holes in the leather; I didn't have a leather punch so it took a bit of time. Other than that no snags or anything out of the ordinary. :)

Remaining Tasks
 

• shirt (75%)
  
• jeans (80%)
  
• suspenders (75%)
  
• wig (?)

So technically I have a wig cut and ready to go at this point already, but it's wavy instead of uber straight, which not only is slightly inaccurate, but is sort of making the bangs a little wonky. Bullocks. This costume was made *in*a*rush* last year right before some drama set in days before Anime Expo. I was never satisfied with it and never able to sport it at the contest last year as I had a press badge thusly making me ineligible. So now I'm fixing what sucks about it and hitting up that contest with full gusto!

The first (and main) thing wrong with the costume is the construction of the shirt. T-shirts are one of the easiest things to make, so I couldn't help but tilt my head a bit at the sagging shoulder line and longish sleeves. A small error on my behalf and a very simple one to correct. I adorned my dress form with the shirt in it's current state and assessed the situation. Looks to me as though the shoulder line needs to be raised about a solid three inches or so. Which, as you can see by the loose fabric around the arm, will create the need for more fabric for the "bell curve" of the sleeve. I decided to do the lower hemming of the shirt itself so I marked it off, cut off the excess fabric, and remade a hem. Easy enough. ;)

Next came the seam ripping to the sleeve itself, which proved a little tricky as I busted my seam ripper while finishing the utility belt for Wendy Watson. Oh well, they're uber cheap and you can usually get them at grocery stores. Anyways, I ended up using my scissors. The thing is, when I made this, I still had my serger (which has since been broken by slobby slobby a ex-room mate piling their shit everywhere and then not taking responsibility for it.  hjksdayeduigh) so the scissors were a little big to tear apart the stitches, but I managed.

I measured out the placement of the new armhole using my dress form's shoulder line as a point of reference. This was far easier than eyeballing it as I had before when I had yet to get my forms. After the lines were marked (as represented by the color burn) I set off to attempt to reattach the sleeves, but sadly they were too small now. I figured they would be. Oh well. I stopped by the Fashion District a few days later and am now ready to finish off the shirt. Yay!

Now all that was left to do was adding on the logo on the front of the shirt. And omfg it is near impossible to find accurate and official images for Alice. It's understandable though, cosplaying A Dance Dance Revolution character is sort of obscure unto itself. /shrug. Since the internet wasn't too useful, I turned to my copy of DDR Max 2. Shhhh... it was for studying! I swear! Anyways after my nice little distraction errr... study session, I sketched out the image that is shown on the front of her shirt and set out to painting it. Once it dries, the shirt will be done and good to go! Next step, cleaning up some faulty pant hems (cause I made her big ass pants from scratch) and adding a button. idk what happened to the last one. :(