Animecon cosplay plans + con ticket arrived!

Here is my Animecon (14-15 July 2012, Kuopio, Finland) cosplay plans!

Saturday

Character: Masamune Date (kimono version)

Series: Sengoku Basara

Ah sweet, this will be my first Sengoku Basara cosplay ever! For not too long time ago I watched the anime and I found it really enjoyable actually. Masamune and Hanbei are my favorite characters and I will eventually cosplay both of them, but for now I'll start my journey into the Basara world by doing kimono!Masamune. Small steps now and next year badumtssh armor version! I will be part of a cosplay group with some other Sengoku Basara cosplayers, both friends and new people! I'm excited!

Sunday

Character: Hajime Saitou

Series: Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan

I'm in a total Hakuouki obsession currently! For Animecon I decided I'm probably going to be Saitou so that he will be seen in both Sweden and Finland at least once this year. It seems that two of my friends (who will also cosplay Sengoku Basara the other day) will also cosplay Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan characters on Sunday so we will hopefully have a mini group. Yay!

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This pretty thing arrived today:

Con ticket yayness~

I am so hyped! Now I just need to order the train tickets to Kuopio and back and then it's shalalalala~

Immortal spirit's ninja pants pt.4

Finished my 'ninja pants' today!

So here is today's progress ~
First off I continued with the ties. I ironed them prior to sewing to make life a bit easier.

Ironed and ready for the sewing machine

Started sewing, folding in the edges...

 And several meters of ties later I just had left to pin it onto the pant's top part and sew it on.

Front pinned

I made sure to cover the "pleat seam" on both the front and back. That's why the ties are not as wide on the body...

Front sewn (back pinned)

And after that I had a pair of almost complete 'ninja pants' for our immortal but kinda psycho spirit.. namely Ichito. xD

Front

Side-ish

Back-ish

Now I need to make the feet wrappings and also finish the 'flap' and after that I'm off to try and find another dark blue fabric for his kimono because, as I said earlier, I didn't find more of that one we already had at home. So I will most likely have to buy a whole different fabric.

See ya!

I'm coming to Animecon!

Hi!

I just ordered myself a ticket from Urumi's online shop, I'm coming ~
At first I thought I won't attend Animecon this year because I already have planned 4 other cons for the summer but... damn my awesome friends Jäärä and Zkitsune are going there and I just thought that "fuck, I'm coming too!" because I want to meet with them and see their Animecon cosplays so bad and sfhjgkfhks! Luckily pre-order train tickets to Kuopio are pretty cheap (only about 35 € there and same amount back) even on adult price...

Cosplay plan list will be up as soon as I know for sure on which day the Sengoku Basara group will be...

Immortal spirit's ninja pants pt.3

Hi everyone!

Remember earlier when I said that after I'd finish the eyepatch I'd continue working on the hakama? Well...

I LIED

Oh well, I made progress today instead. So it's all good.
Earlier I had tried to sew a straight seam all around the pant legs and tried to pull the thread so that the fabric would wrinkle... but it turned out to be a major pain in the butt so I decided to hell with it and let's just do lots of pleats instead...

Pleating, pleating...

I think it took... 4 or 5 tries before I got both the pleated pant leg and the 'feet tube' to match. 50 cm around. I test pinned them together to see that they actually did fit.

Test pinning

retard!ninja pants. One leg sewn, other untouched...

After that I repeated the steps for the other pant leg. That one didn't take as many tries to get right. Good. When that was done I took in the "feet tubes" because they were a bit big at the ankle and up.

Take a bit in so it fits better...

And then mom helped me cut out four pieces of the same fabric for the ties. I zigzaged around the edges and sewed three of them together at the ends so I had one super long tie and one short. The short one will be for the back and the long one for the front.

Ties

After that I got tired of sewing so I decided to quit for today. Hopefully tomorrow I will finish the ties and attach them to my 'ninja pants' so I can actually wear them.

Bye.

Kemi's comic day

 Sup all.

So I attended Kemi's Comic day today, it's a small event for, well, comics. Today there was the 4-hour 'manga part' of the event. I live close to Kemi so I went there; I didn't bother to put on cosplay so I just put on my blue wool kimono ensemble and my Saitou wig instead. I'm glad I didn't because there probably wasn't much more than 5 cosplayers...
I met some few people I recognized, or well, they recognized me, lol. I hung around with Ellu and we had a blast, Moomin lemonade and derpin' goes a long way! :D

But there was a rather... err... unpleasant experience. Warning for angry rant and foul words. Let's say a few people had major problems trying to guess my gender (I KNOW I LOOK ANDROGYNOUS, OKAY?) and it, well, their inappropriate touching went waaaaay over my comfort zone. >_> I was too shocked to instantly say stop but I sure felt offended because, hey, where's your fucking manners!?!  (╬⓪益⓪)
I didn't give an answer because I was annoyed beyond words, but at least they eventually stopped. But still... don't fucking go touching my chest and whatnot for like 5 minutes – that's plain rude and offending and, even more so, when you don't even apologize!! Fucking scum of mankind, I hope you burn in hell. ╭∩╮(⊙▂⊙╬)╭∩╮

Oh well, despite that one dipshit it was a nice experience; nothing more to say really. Sorry for the lack of photos.

Bye.

Eyepatch - because just wraps won't cut it

 Hi all.

I was supposed to continue working on the "ninja pants" for Ichito.. but.. I felt like doing something small before I continued on them.. so I did his eyepatch. I've been trying to look if he has an eyepatch "plate" under those wrappings and it seems he does, at least on these two pictures if you look closely...

His wrappings are loose here but it seems like he has something covering his eye...

Notice that rounded edge poking out...

 So yeah, there's a lack of references to go by (obscure game is obscure...) but from what I can tell it do indeed look like he... well...

(yeah I'm not tired at all..)

 But here goes~

Sorry I didn't take progress pictures but what I did was I went and got a craft foam piece (color doesn't matter), cut it into shape and rounded the corners a bit. Then I picked up a scrap piece of those 'feet tubes' and cut out two pieces, slightly bigger than the craft foam piece. I zigzaged around the fabric and it looked like this:

The piece to the left is "right side" and soft, the one to the right is "wrong side" and kinda leather-ish

 Then I just took the side of the fabric that I wanted to be against my eye (the softer side) and sewed it to the craft foam piece at the two ends. I tried to turn in the longer sides but noticed I had cut the fabric a bit too short for that so I tried to glue them onto the foam and even use jesus tape (read: duct tape) but it didn't really work either. *shrugs* Oh well, I took the other fabric piece and this one was to be the side facing outwards, so I used the leather-ish side. Sewed the ends again to the foam and then I tried to fold in the sides over to the back but it proved to be a pain in the butt and I had to cut the foam a bit shorter to get the other side to fold in. lol my explanations probably make no sense. OTL I did get the zigzaged edges over to the back (where they won't be seen) after a lot of tweaking but it resulted in a tiny 'airbag' in the back.. oh well, not that I really mind because the 'airbag' actually makes the thing more comfortable over my eye. xD;

It's kinda fugly but it works...

My comment:

Oh well, it works for its purpose and it's not like it's going to be seen so much anyway because those wraps (which I will make later) will be over it and thus cover it... at least it's comfortable (and bendable) so that's good, comfort is always appreciated in cosplay... how comfortable it now is to be half-blind for a day...

Bye bye!

Immortal spirit's ninja pants pt.2

What's up?

Today most of the day I've been helping mom cleaning the whole house and then I watched the very exciting icehockey match between Finland and USA, it was very even until the very end when Finland did a 3-2 goal and won. <3 Err.. enough of that.
But yeah, most of my day has been busy but at least I got some cosplay progress done, namely made the "feet tubes" for Ichito. Yeah, no socks. I just took some gray slightly stretchy fabric we had at home, cut two rectangular pieces, zigzaged around and sewed them to.. well, tubes. And that's it. Didn't do anything else for today because it's pretty late. Tomorrow I'll hopefully attach them to Ichito's pants and also cut out the ties for the hakama too.
Oh, lastly a photo of the "feet tubes". And yes, I will make and wrap those bandages over them later, hopefully out of the same fabric as the tubes.

That's all.