Cosplay WIP: SAO - Hollow Fragments Cosplay

Last night, I worked on my Wedding Asuna cosplay--adding some pretty flowers to it!

Right now, all I have to do is dye some lace and add them to the dress--add some champagne/nude lace to the choker and hair clip--and decorate the extra long gloves.  So, I'm at about 95% done overall~

Matching Wedding Purse!

Last night, I decided to give making a matching wedding purse one more try--since I failed so many times >^< ~~

I decided to use a more simpler approach, then, sewed on matching ruffles with the self-made champagne bias tape.  Then, lastly, I hand-sewn the faux pearl-beaded lace trim at the very top all around the purse before finally adding in the velcro (inside the purse).

Now that I've made the matching wedding purse to go with my wedding cosplay, I have something I can put things inside--and it matches!--while Aoi and I go around the con.

Hope that you're enjoying the progress of my costume-making!

Love,

Yoko~~

More costume-making work!

The 8 cosplays in 1 selfie meme! If interested, please check out my
Facebook page!

I'm going to work on a couple of cosplays later on in the evening.  For the first time, I have to work on a Victorian-era inspired school uniform shirt and also, I'd need to make a vest to go with the shirt.  Then, there's a cropped jacket I have to make for another costume.  From my weekend trip with the boyfriend, I had my whole line-up figured out for the Sacramento anime convention--and after several group discussions at the sleepover party, the majority of my friends agreed to perform a skit for the con's masquerade.  Although it would've been great if we could aim for the craftsmanship category, most of us didn't take many pictures of our works in progress for the judges to look at--and well, that just sucks.

I look forward to see if we could come up with any ideas that everyone would agree on what we should do as a group, but then again, there's also time--rehearsals--travel--and recording for the audio to be used for the skit performance.  Chop, chop, chop!  I did propose a cute idea of us singing a parody song for the skit--but my brother opposed the idea because he hated the show in where the song had come from.

Your friend,

Yoko~

My Past Costume Works, Part II

Hello Readers!

I'll be continuing off from a previous post in which I was describing my past costume work starting from 2011.

As I have left off--2013 and 2014 marked huge changes for me.  I learned how to make proper ballgowns, worked with lolita clothes (below image), more complicated fantasy outfits, and so on forth, including accessories such as hats and making stuffed animals.  I have never, NEVER ever made any of these things in my entire life--and I've run into some "catty" cosplayers--well, bullies--who discouraged my progress--but I showed them.

I showed them that I could push past my limits--and tried anyway.

And I did it.

Me cosplaying as Anna Kushina from K Project (being lifted up
by my brother), with my Rikio and Misaki.  Photo credit to
BlizzardTerrak Photography.  2013.

Anna with her Neko-chan.  Photo credit to BlizzardTerrak
Photography.

Shingeki no Kyojin (Shingeki no Sexy! ver.)  Photo credit to
AnimeCraft Entertainment.  2014.
Jacket and straps not made by me.

Photo credit to AnimeCraft Entertainment.

Photo credit to Animecrafts Entertainment.

Blazblue character cast (maid cafe ver.) Photo credit to Harrison's
Anime Photography.  2014.

Me cosplaying Noel Vermillion (right) from Blazblue, with my Makoto.
Photo credit to Crown Werkz Studio.  2014.

And now, I'm working on what seems to be the most ambitious costume project so far--a wedding dress of ruffles and laces, decorated by roses and appliqués, and so on forth.  

I'm almost done with it.  

There are cosplay events that are quickly approaching--and I'll be wearing it for those dates and hopefully, get pictures of my dress--with my "groom," who is my boyfriend.

Thank you for viewing the pictures!

Current Projects of Costume-making

Hello, readers!

I got done, with my recycled skirt from a previous post.  I decided to make some last-minute changes to it, which was different from the original planned-out design--adding lace overall straps to the skirt.

Other than that, as of right now, I'm currently working on two costumes: a wedding dress ballgown from the anime, Sword Art Online, and an outfit from God Eater, a PSP game--turned to an anime recently.

Wedding dress costume in-progress.  Sorry for the poor quality.

Sword Art Online's heroine, Asuna, in a wedding dress.
Image source to www.cute-pop.com

Alisha Illinichina Amiella from God Eater.  Photo source to senpaigamer.com

I'm taking my time with the costumes right now and when I'm able to start on Alisa's gun weapon prop--of course, it's gonna take a lot of work and dedication into building it.  I've already made the plaid skirt, the overall straps, and last night, I got done cutting out Worbla pieces for the metal hooks.  Tomorrow, I'll be using a heat-gun to mold the plastic--and hopefully, things will work out! //crosses fingers//

Image source to godeater.wikia.com

And here's a random picture of our (boyfriend and mine) cat, Kilala:

I hope that you enjoyed looking through the pictures of my progress work c:  and I hope that you'll be here next time to see more work of mine in the future as well!