Making a little progress...
Yesterday was fun. ^_^ I finally went out fabric shopping and spent the afternoon wandering around the fashion district with friends plus visits to Kinokuniya and Image Anime (first time I’d ever been there although I usually see their booths at cons). I found out that I’m apparently not very recognizable out of costume and with my glasses on instead of freaky contacts. XD
Hung out with or saw at some point, hystericraider, loudnbothered, mostfloggedneoangelwink, and winq. My brother also tagged along even though he wasn’t interested in fabric shopping. He called me when I was already in the city and complained he was really bored at home.
The hanging out part was great but unfortunately, I didn’t have much luck with actually finding fabric I needed. When we were at Spandex House, I saw a swatch of burgundy stretch pleather that would have been good for Morgan LeFlay gloves but there wasn’t any in stock. :-/ Also didn’t have much luck with white fabric for Youko, which was the primary thing I was after. The reference is very vague but I wanted the main fabric to be a pure white Chinese brocade with a bit of color patterning. Other than some white with unsuitable medallion patterns, all I could find was shades of off-white and white on white. In the end, I just gave up on trying to find something better and went downtown to Pearl River where I picked up 6 yards of white on white cherry blossom brocade.
I worked out all the patterns for my Youko costume last week. It’s pretty similar to what I did for Youka the nyosen a few years ago so I had a few pieces to start from. I’m probably going to reuse the white underskirt from that costume although I’ll make a new inner top since I’m doing the sleeves differently this time. And while I’m working on this, maybe I’ll finally redo the sash for the Youka costume; I’ve been meaning to do that for ages so I can wear it again. I’ll start making it this week and hopefully, I can get it done before things get busy at home with Chinese New Year’s preparations.
Hung out with or saw at some point, hystericraider, loudnbothered, mostfloggedneoangelwink, and winq. My brother also tagged along even though he wasn’t interested in fabric shopping. He called me when I was already in the city and complained he was really bored at home.
The hanging out part was great but unfortunately, I didn’t have much luck with actually finding fabric I needed. When we were at Spandex House, I saw a swatch of burgundy stretch pleather that would have been good for Morgan LeFlay gloves but there wasn’t any in stock. :-/ Also didn’t have much luck with white fabric for Youko, which was the primary thing I was after. The reference is very vague but I wanted the main fabric to be a pure white Chinese brocade with a bit of color patterning. Other than some white with unsuitable medallion patterns, all I could find was shades of off-white and white on white. In the end, I just gave up on trying to find something better and went downtown to Pearl River where I picked up 6 yards of white on white cherry blossom brocade.
I worked out all the patterns for my Youko costume last week. It’s pretty similar to what I did for Youka the nyosen a few years ago so I had a few pieces to start from. I’m probably going to reuse the white underskirt from that costume although I’ll make a new inner top since I’m doing the sleeves differently this time. And while I’m working on this, maybe I’ll finally redo the sash for the Youka costume; I’ve been meaning to do that for ages so I can wear it again. I’ll start making it this week and hopefully, I can get it done before things get busy at home with Chinese New Year’s preparations.