Ello Beautiful Person and welcome

Photographer - Clouds Photography

Clouds Photography was the amazing photographer for this picture!

Also Breelociraptor Cosplay looks fantastic in her Vaporeon!

Me and @alaznej had a panel at CPAC :D thank you to those who came!

Some Ren selfies from CPAC on Saturday!! Had such a blast and met some awesome people! Definitely can’t wait for next year! @gabbynucosplay as Lucoa

Tip Tuesday!!! So in this tip, I'm going to be talking about slip stitches. A slip stitch is one way to hem clothes. The common and easy way is to fold the fabric at the length you want and straight stitch it together. It's a good way to hem but leaves that line of stitches out in the open. So if that is not the desired look and you have enough free time the a slip stitch is perfect! How a slip stitch works is that you take a thin needle. Poke it through the fabric that won't be shown and then for the fabric that you are sewing that into, get one tread of it. It may be odd to explain but I hope the pictures make it clear(they are fuzzy, sorry!) Since you are only sewing throw one thread, on the outside of the fabric you can't see it at all! So it gives what you are working on a nice clean look. Though be warned, you have to hand sew. It's not bad but the process is so slow in general that depending on how much you want to slip stitch it can take you a looooooong time. (It took me maybe three weeks (includes class and work time) too finish slip stitching a vest) so if you plan to do this make sure you have time too! And with that I wish you happy sewing!!

Tip Tuesday!! In this tip I'll be talking about how to help keep fabric from fraying with out the use of a serger. Sergers are ridiculously expensive but the are very handy! If you don't know what a serger does then look down at the bottom of your shirt. Most shirts on the inside have a part were the fabric has been folded and there is a ton of seams were the fabric ends. That is most likely made with a serger! It keeps the strands together in the fabric. But what if you don't have a serger or money to buy one? If you have a sewing machine there should be a mode on it that is called a zigzag stitch. If you use that and have it so one side the needle goes in the fabric and that other side it does not, it will have sort of the same effect as a serger! It's not as effective as a serger but it will keep the seams together waaaay better then if you didn't. If you hand sew I have heard that a tight blanket stitch could have the same effect. The white fabric in the picture has a zigzag stitch. Good luck with your sewing!!

I have been thinking for a while that I wanted to have a day to give random advice about cosplay. So I'm going to be doing Tip Tuesday from now on (ಠ◡ಠ) Every Tuesday I'll give one advice that I can think of that might help other cosplayer. So to start it off, my tip for today is when you get a bolt of fabric there should be the sticker that says the price on it per yard. Take a picture of that! It has the price but it also has a ton of useful information. Like what the fabric is made of, how to wash it and something super important, the article number. Now you might be confused but let me explain. The article number is the only way employees can look up the fabric to see where it is and how much they have at that time. So if you come in with just the fabric and ask for help finding more for your cosplay, they can't do much to help. But if you have that Article number they can help you find it super quick. I know this trick definitely applies to Joanns but not sure about all fabric stores.

Photographer - EMCP

Photographer - EMCP