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This seamless trim technique is a method I’ve been using for years to add custom trim to my costumes without any top-stitching at all. Similar in a way to bias tape, but with many key differences in implementation and results. No one taught me this technique, but now I’m teaching it to you! Please read through all the instructions below before asking any further questions, and happy trim-making! C:
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OH MY LORD
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L.oh good lordy
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oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
all the awards to this woman please.
god bless
omg what. she is so cool.
NO WOMAN SHOULD HAVE THIS MUCH SWAG
let me give her like a million high fives please
Holy shit that is fucking awesome.
Always reblog Batman Lady.
that is the greatest burqa i have ever seen
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Character: Claire
Series: Motorcity
Where you can Belt your Heart out in a Song. by Duy Truong Photography on Flickr.
tears
My whole life I have been waiting for this <3
All my life, I’ve been searching
All my life I felt empty.
But no more.
We have reached the top people. Muses cosplay to perfection done by beautiful beautiful black women.
Everyone go home, pack your shit up and leave. Ain’t nothing more to do here. It’s a wrap. We did it, awesome job.
Rebecca
Im so happy I could cry
YES!!!!!!!
DSHFJODSKJFDSIOGJSFOIDG SO PRETTY OMG
I want this family to adopt me
HOW ARE YOU ALL SO CUTE
OH MY GOD i’m dying best cosplay ever
everyone else go home
A++ parenting, right there.
Perfect cosplays, ohjeeeze, lookit these! These are amazing! That is the most adorable Sailor Moon I’ve seen in a loooong time!
YO HOW FLIPPING CUTE IS THIS:
the two directors of The Reward, Mikkel Mainz and Kenneth Ladekjær, cosplayed as the two main characters
more here!YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING
THIS IS THE BEST THING OH MY GOD
THEY ARE PERFECT PEOPLE
AHHH!!! THIS IS GREAT!
THE NOISES I MAD OMG U GAIS
So on Friday I told you how to make superhero boots. (By the way, 1800 notes? Thanks!) Today I’m going to show you how to make custom thigh-highs (or socks in general.) We’ll just call it the sock weekend.
Here I’m making Tomoe Mami’s thigh-highs. (I’ve intentionally made them in brown, as I didn’t like the purple.) Do you know how hard it is to find thigh-highs in the right color, with that pinstripe? Not to mention, not everyone fits into those “one size fits most” socks; my thighs never co-operate with the things and they end up around my knees constantly. As a result I’ve taken to making my own.
You will need:
- Standard sewing tools (measuring tape, scissors, pins, sewing machine.) I used a serger for much of it but it’s really not necessary at all.
- Sufficient amount of a stretch fabric; the stretch will have to run around your leg at the very least. I used about 30”x45” and had plenty of scrap, so you should be safe with a yard.
- Enough wide elastic to make bands that fit snugly around your thighs.
That’s really it.
Cut your fabric into rectangles, the widest enough to fit the widest point of your leg. I freehand this because you really don’t need that much of it. Put one rectangle aside and focus on the first sock. Sew up the length and across the bottom. You have essentially just made a large wine bag for your thigh.
Sexy.
Stick your foot in this Sexy Wine Bag. Start pinning it so that your wine bag clings to you more like a sock. Go down to your ankle; it’s way easier to do this in two parts. When you are pleased with the tightness, carefully take it off your leg without disturbing the pins. It’s usually necessary to make a few adjustments to the pins once you have it off, just so they’re laying flat/even.
Sew up that fit you just made. You should end up with a sock that ends up with a club foot. (See picture. Laugh.)
Now do your foot. You may want to round it out over the toe so you don’t get little elf points. Doing the seam along the bottom of your foot is the absolute easiest, imho, because you get a better fit with less finicking, but you will also end up having the seam along the underside of your foot, which I know bothers some people. If this is weird to you, then do the seam along the side… you just might not have as good of a fit as you want without a lot of finicking if your fabric doesn’t have a lot of stretch.
Carefully take it off, adjust the pins for neatness, and sew again.
Trace this finished sock against your other Sexy Wine Bag and sew that one, too. If you’re super into it, trace the sock off on paper, too, so that you have a pattern you can reuse next time without having to do any pinning/fitting.
YOU HAVE SOCKS NOW :)
But these socks don’t have finished top hems, are let’s be real, are liable to fall down if they’re left all on their own. You could just fold them over and hem ‘em, but I like elastic in there for support.
Put on your socks (inside out!), make your elastic bands, and slide the bands on overtop your socks. Fold the top edge of the sock down over the elastic band and pin it in place. Go all the way around your leg –– be careful doing this, as it can be tricky to pin against the underside of your thigh when you can’t really see what you’re doing, but it’s doable. When you’ve finished pinning, take it off –– it should look a little weird, as the fabric is no longer stretched. No big deal; sew it in place, making sure you stretch the fabric out as you sew it. I like to catch the needle along the edge of the elastic just so it doesn’t roll/do weird things inside the casing.
And then voila. You have finished socks.
Go kill Witches.
- Jenn
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HOW TO SEW SLEEVES WITHOUT WANTING TO MURDER EVERYTHING: A TUTORIAL
Someone asked that this be rebloggable so HURR YOU GO
Some patterns are really dumb in telling you to finish the body of an outfit, then finish the sleeve, then attach a circle to a circle. It’s possible to do, and once in a while it’s necessary, don’t get me wrong, but unless you have a lot of experience it’s sometimes very aggravating trying to evenly distribute the sleeve around the “hole” cut out for it and match up the seams under the armpit!
(Please note…some patterns, especially to achieve tailored looks, require you to do it the traditional way. Don’t use this method for fashion school assignments or super-complex garments as it will probably screw up the way it ends up fitting in the end. This is mostly for the use of cosplayers to make their job a little easier.)EDIT:// thevvioletprince, a fashion student, says she’s been taught this method in school so HAVE FUN, NEVER MIND
EDIT DEUX:// If you are doing a traditional garment of some kind, for instance, something that has a multi-piece sleeve or that requires gathers, you may need to do it the “old-fashioned way”!
ANYWAY SO THIS IS WHAT I DO.
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How to make your own dress form
You would think I would make a dressform by now, but no. I’ve been too lazy. I should really stop being lazy and do it already.
OH.
Bean remember when we said we’d have a dressform making party like three years ago
teach me. I did my entire N7 suit without this magic
i did this once but i was in high school at the time getting over mono and then i gained weight and now i just have this duct tape torso of me sitting in the garage
My friends’ shop in my home town! Lookit how cute it is!
