#yousewro

A little on the late side, but I wanted to post about NDK 2017. It was a little overwhelming for me, since I haven't been to an NDK in years and it was at a different venue than the last time I went. But overall it was a fun time! I met some people who were following this project online, which was definitely an awesome and slightly weird experience for me (Thanks to all y'all that said hi!).❤️ I also won Best Intermediate Performance at the cosplay contest, which was super exciting for me, since Time Travel You had kinda been being a pain all day! Anywho, hopefully I can find more pictures of this demon of a costume to share. And lastly, to everyone who asked me how I make things, please send me questions! Y'all might've seen me tag my posts with 'YouSEWro!', and here's why. My cosplay philosophy is that if You Watanabe can sew something for Aqours, than you can sew it too! So if there's anything I can do to help with that, I'm happy to help 😊

I've been all about lights the last few posts, so here's something a little different; I actually have a wearable bodice now! Other vinyl details coming soon! Aaaaand, here's my .png files for the decals (I can send illustrator files on request), feel free to use them (and send me pictures!!), but mention me if someone asks about them, plz? I spent a stupid amount of time getting everything as accurate as possible 😅

Wings! I dyed some thick clear vinyl with synthetic dye, adding more dye after each one. Then I added the cutout super shiny opal-y vinyl (please send help, I'm addicted to the stuff) decals on both sides et voila! Futuristic looking wing things!

More Time Travel You! The bodice and skirt are practically done, I just have to figure out where to stash my millions of battery packs. I'm pretty proud of where I hid the ones on the shoes; I get to dance around in glory shoes! I'm so excited, and hopefully I don't blind anyone too much with this costume! YouSEWro!

Headpiece thing is almost done! Just a few edges to clean up and it'll be ready to rumble!!! I'm starting to panic a little since we're a week out and I am not as close as I'd like to be, but wish me luck ❤️❤️❤️ YouSEWro!

Finished You's wings today! Also got a lot of things almost done, so expect another batch of pictures tomorrow! The wings are surprisingly light and completely self-contained (no wires or anything running to/from them). It's getting to be crunch time (less than 2 weeks to NDK!), so I'm really trying to plow through! YouSEWro!

More lights! All the el wire is tacked down to the petals, and some of the leds are installed; just 12 more to go... OTL ALSO: anyone have a suggestion for a song to use at a cosplay contest for this costume? Parts of the wire will be sound reactive, so something with a pretty strong beat/loud and soft would probably work best ❤️️

GUYS. We officially have sound reactive el wire!!! I was truly terrified by all the horror stories about how hard it is to solder el wire, but with the amount I wanted for this project, there was no way I could buy it pre-soldered, it would be way too expensive. But I'm having a decent success rate! On that note, DO NOT buy wire from Live Wire (elwirebestbuy.com). They cut parts of my order (making it non refundable) without having other parts of my order available (though I received an order confirmation), and without letting me decide if I still wanted it without the parts that were out of stock (I mostly wanted to avoid paying close to $20 in shipping at multiple sites). To top it off, the lady got all snippy on the phone when I told her that it wasn't okay for her to just exchange the color/size of the wire I ordered. When I told her they were essentially forcing me to pay shipping twice, since I now had to get an item they sent me an order confirmation for from another site, she said that she would 'look into' getting me a refund for the shipping and since has ignored all my calls and never gotten back to me. Fun stuff. TL;DR Live Wire customer service sucks and tell your cosplay friends to avoid them like the plague. Also, I painted the shoes while the el wire still hadn't arrived. My spreadsheet says I'm more than halfway done, and I sure hope it's right!