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Ugh, boredpost.
I don't feel like logging tonight, but I can't effing sleep. Hopefully just talking will wear it out. Since I vowed to myself to not put shit in writing that I don't want to have come back on me later, I'm not going to talk about my personal affairs... as if there were anything to discuss, anyway.
Instead, I'm going to make it a point to post about my cosplay progress. It'd help if my camera charger didn't vanish into the Void of Ohio. Fuck. Okay, then. I'll just start off by posting about the important PHASE ONE of my Lulu rennovation, even though I'm already farther than what I'm posting.
So this means so far I have the shell of the skirt made...
I constructed it based on my own design (by which I mean no pattern, obviously not that I thought up the skirt myself), like I did for the last one because the shape came out well enough... found out that the dressform was set to the wrong size... at least it's all taken in now, so if as I grow inexorably fatter, I can still fit in the damn thing. It's only four pieces, the two front thigh panels, and the sides. The belts themselves are going in with little slots I made out of twill scraps, creating a series of straps the belts hook around, so the seams don't show too much, and there's extra support for the material, which is probably the only reason the whole goddamned front didn't rip off after all these years. Now I've just got to cut/hem up the bottom, and then it's time for paint! After trying a few things, it seems the quickest/most economical to just use acrylic paint and fabric medium. SO I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING NEXT. Fuck. Once all that's done, I can attach the belts and whatnot. I'm using metal lumber ties from Lowes to hold the front of the dress open. It works pretty well, but unless I can beg the guys there to use their tinsnips, I'm sort of stuck with the size I have... but they're usually so nice to me about it, so WHY THE FUCK NOT.
After all that's done, I'll be moving on to making the bodice, which shouldn't be too hard. I have a pattern for it, after all. I'm not good enough with bodices to do one without a pattern yet. This, by comparison, should be a fuckton easier to do, just tack-sew on the fur, sew the sleeves in... not too hard at all. I'm probably just going to use Org. leather to simulate the straps, so I can move my arms, and since it'll actually be built with support in mind, I shouldn't need the extra support like the last one gave me.
Then the jewelry... Sculpy for the hairpins extra stuff should work, with a little bit of gloss finish to take away the childishness of it, and gem-tac on the pond stones backed to coils of jewelry wire ought to do it.... or I'll fucking kill myself.
I don't feel like logging tonight, but I can't effing sleep. Hopefully just talking will wear it out. Since I vowed to myself to not put shit in writing that I don't want to have come back on me later, I'm not going to talk about my personal affairs... as if there were anything to discuss, anyway.
Instead, I'm going to make it a point to post about my cosplay progress. It'd help if my camera charger didn't vanish into the Void of Ohio. Fuck. Okay, then. I'll just start off by posting about the important PHASE ONE of my Lulu rennovation, even though I'm already farther than what I'm posting.
So this means so far I have the shell of the skirt made...
I constructed it based on my own design (by which I mean no pattern, obviously not that I thought up the skirt myself), like I did for the last one because the shape came out well enough... found out that the dressform was set to the wrong size... at least it's all taken in now, so if as I grow inexorably fatter, I can still fit in the damn thing. It's only four pieces, the two front thigh panels, and the sides. The belts themselves are going in with little slots I made out of twill scraps, creating a series of straps the belts hook around, so the seams don't show too much, and there's extra support for the material, which is probably the only reason the whole goddamned front didn't rip off after all these years. Now I've just got to cut/hem up the bottom, and then it's time for paint! After trying a few things, it seems the quickest/most economical to just use acrylic paint and fabric medium. SO I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING NEXT. Fuck. Once all that's done, I can attach the belts and whatnot. I'm using metal lumber ties from Lowes to hold the front of the dress open. It works pretty well, but unless I can beg the guys there to use their tinsnips, I'm sort of stuck with the size I have... but they're usually so nice to me about it, so WHY THE FUCK NOT.
After all that's done, I'll be moving on to making the bodice, which shouldn't be too hard. I have a pattern for it, after all. I'm not good enough with bodices to do one without a pattern yet. This, by comparison, should be a fuckton easier to do, just tack-sew on the fur, sew the sleeves in... not too hard at all. I'm probably just going to use Org. leather to simulate the straps, so I can move my arms, and since it'll actually be built with support in mind, I shouldn't need the extra support like the last one gave me.
Then the jewelry... Sculpy for the hairpins extra stuff should work, with a little bit of gloss finish to take away the childishness of it, and gem-tac on the pond stones backed to coils of jewelry wire ought to do it.... or I'll fucking kill myself.