Cosplay!!

Cosplays and Cons of 2016! We started off the year with Sacanime Winter and the Princess Aurora costume we made for Claire to go with Gina’s Maleficent costume. We actually only just started up this account in March too! We also went to Asahi con and Reagan and Katie put on a panel on beginning to cosplay. Our next big con was Fanime and for that we made DC Bombshell costumes for everyone in the cosplay group as well as Katie’s self made and designed Dark Phoenix inspired ballgown! We wrapped up the year at San Francisco Comic Con and debuted Claire’s Jane Foster Thor, her first major armor project. It’s been a really good year and we want to extend a big thank you to everyone who has followed us and supported us as well as all the incredible photographers and cosplayers we have met this year. Have a wonderful new year! We will see you all in 2017!

Hey Everybody! I want to do a write up of how I made my Dark Phoenix inspired ballgown! I’m going to start with a write up of how I made the petticoat for my ball gown. I am by no means an expert and I totally made this up as I went along but here’s how I made the petticoat. 

I used Simplicity Pattern 4269 as the base for this dress and the petticoats

BUT I ended up ignoring most of the petticoat instructions and making up my own thing because they a). Made no sense and B). Didn’t fit over my hoop skirt so I couldn’t really use them. 

Materials:      - Base fabric (I used a white lining from Joanns)      - Tulle (Lots and lots of tulle)      - Bias tape      - Elastic

Step 1: Here I followed the petticoat instructions and made a large white skirt. This Skirt didn’t actually fit over my hoop skirt (Which is a three hoop hoop skirt I bought off of Amazon a really long time ago) and I needed it to fit right so I ended up installing ten inch tall godets on all the seams of the underskirt and then hemming it. This did end up giving me enough room to work with but is a pretty inelegant solution. I was running out of fabric but if I had more I simply would have made more panels in the skirt. 

Step 2: Next I made giant ruffles for each level of the hoop skirt. These ruffles were gathered down to the circumference of each hoop. The way I did it was to make a bunch of individual panels that were about ten inches long and sew them together into a giant strip. (I did it so there were four inches of strip for every one inch of hoop length). That strip gets sewn into one giant loop, hemmed, and then gathered down to the right length. Something I did to hold the gathered loops in the right length/degree of poof was to sandwich the gathered edge in a piece of bias tape. The picture below shows the hemmed and gathered tulle strips pinned on to the base skirt.

Step 3: Make a skirt out of tulle like how you did the base skirt. This was something that was included in the pattern for the petticoat and I think it helped to smooth down the overall appearance of the petticoat as well as add a little more volume. 

Step 4: Attach everything to an elastic waistband (I used three inch wide elastic) by gathering down the tulle skirt and the ruffled skirt to fit that waistband. The right layer order is the hoop skirt, then the ruffled skirt, then the tulle skirt (keeping in mind that the ruffled layer and the tulle layer are made as one piece). 

The first of the next two images is just a sample skirt on top of only the hoopskirt layer. It has much more volume than if it was alone but it really isn’t the right silhouette for this project. The second image is me wth that sample skirt and the hoopskirt and petticoat on and the silhouette is much much better overall. 

And that’s how you do a simple petticoat to be worn over a hoop skirt for all your princess dress needs! 

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