I hope everyone had/is having a great [holiday of choice]!
Now that the stress of shopping for gifts and wrapping them and then playing with my adorable niece (I know life is so hard…) is over, I can get back to the important business of sewing! And drinking. Primarily sewing though.
New Year’s is just around the corner so what better time to give a general update on where I’m at, where I’m planning to be and what I’ll be wearing?
Costume Progress
This is the part where you will first notice how in depth I plan. It helps to keep track of where I am with which costume. It also gives me something to do in a spreadsheet that looks like work.
Apocalypse Wendy – 90%
- jacket
- dress
- boots
- accessories: ring, ribbon, necklace, stockings, gloves, wig, hat, goggles
Remaining
- ‘Tattoo’ – drawn on stockings in sharpie (classy!) – 0%
- Hook – 0%
- Feather Epaulettes for jacket. – 50%
Connor – Assassin’s Creed
- Flintlock pistol
Remaining
- Arm bands – 80%
- Hood – 50%
- Greatcoat – 30%
- Gauntlet – 0%
- Leggings – 0%
- Bow – 0%
- Gloves – 0%
- Bags and packs and shit – 0%
- Vest – 0%
- Sash – 0%
- Belt – 0%
- Tomahawk – 0%
- I’m sure there’s more…
Ramona Flowers – Scott Pilgrim
- Wig
- Goggles
- Tights
- Shirt
- Accessories: Earrings of awesome
Remaining
- Shorts
- Star Bag
- Jacket
Demon Hunter 2.0 – Diablo 3Demon Hunter (c) Blizzard
Scrapped!
Why?
- I seriously suck at armor. And I chose the class with the most armor aside from the barbarian? ugh why?
- There’s been a lot of great Demon Hunter cosplays around.
- I’d have to start over from scratch
- Seriously, that armor.
- Fuck armor.
- Fuck it hard!
Planned for 2013
Khaleesi Daenerys – A Song of Ice and Fire
I can’t wait for this one. I already have a white/silver wig for her and I’ll be on the scavenge trail for some old thick tweedy fabric.
I’ll also probably have to make a trip out to the leather outlet to get a hide for her skirt.
Can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait!
Wizard – Diablo 3
This picture’s a little hard to see, but basically this will be the ‘blockbuster’ costume of 2013. I’m already kind of scared of it.
It’s still Diablo 3-pretty but at least most of it’s sewing and not that god forsaken armor.
…Fucking armor.
Conventions
In no particular order…
- Ottawa ComicCon
- G-Anime
- Costume Con Toronto (not until 2014… cry)
- GenCon
- A number of further American cons to be determined based on travel and lodgings
I love the ideas. I did a Connor kenway costume for my son for Halloween.. its not really the high quality materials but he loved it and lots of kids thought it wad cool.
Most of the materials I buy are in the bargain bin, that way I don’t waste money when I make mistakes. Also, it makes me ridiculously happy that you made your son a Connor costume.