Monday, January 19, 2015

Sewing and cosplay WIPs, and something I haven't done in FOREVER

Well, I've been not so diligently working on my Jack Spicer cross-stitch, and slowly but surely, he's taking shape. I have a little over a month until Torii con, so I don't really have a lot of time for fun (Oh the irony). He's looking like this, as I slowly stitch in the shading on his arm. Not a lot of progress since my last post, but some.

The thing that's eating most of my time is our cosplays. I have a massive amount of costume sewing to do, armor to make, and shoes to craft, however, Wigs are now done (or as done as I'm gonna fiddle with them.)

Ami's Tecna wig is the bright pink one pictured below, I'm wearing the unaltered version of my Musa wig.


Now my wig was a pain. I crafted the pigtails out of thin craft foam, cut the shapes out, covered them in layers of rubber cement, and wig fibers of the same color as my wig, and then hot glued them to the original but now much shorter pigtails of the wig. Inside of the wig, under the the net is a hairband with two wooden sticks on it, which are stuffed inside the pigtails to sort of make them stand up right, however one of them insists on tilting downward. All in all, though, it's kind of impressive!

The last thing I'm going to post about tonight, is a Jack Spicer tribute video I made! I used to make little videos like this all the time when I was in middle school, but I sort of fell out of it. A while back when I was working on my pattern of Jack, I was searching youtube for some inspiration, when I looked up "Jack Spicer I'm Still Here" because I thought the song from Treasure Planet would suit him just right, and that someone had to have made it already, however there wasn't one. So I made one! It was a lot of fun doing all the editing and searching for clips and audio bites! I really enjoy the finished product, and I hope you do too!

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Finished Jack Pattern and WIP stitching! Also I dyed my hair!

I finally finished the pattern! So here is Jack Spicer in all his glory! I'm thinking about humoring Ami, in making patterns of Chase and Wuya to go with it.

I also started stitching him, though I just have the back pack and a little bit of his chest done so far.

The lighting in my room is pretty crappy, but as you can tell from the pic, my hair is not light brown any more, and now I have bangs! Ami dyed her hair this dark blue color, and I fell in love with it (it looks just like Musa from Winx Club) so I decided I'd do my hair the same color and got the same hair cut as Musa from late season 2-early season 3! I LOVE IT so much! Anyway short post is short, have a great day! I'm gonna get back to sewing!

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy New Year, and more of a WIP pattern

Well it's about a quarter 'til 8AM here, and since I closed up shop at work around 1AM, I haven't been able to fall asleep. I've just been sitting here on Ami's laptop listening to music by Mindless Self Indulgence, and working on my Jack Spicer pattern. I'm honestly really tired and bored right now, but my body won't sleep. So, if you're a Spicer fan like me, how about I post the pattern so far, show off my rediculously slow progress, spam some videos of him being dorky, have a laugh, and then I'll end my post and go back to systematically putting little squares of color into a grid that will eventually be a massive portrait of a cartoon character that likely only I care about!

Anyway, here he is so far, I've managed to get most of his neck and coat done, some of the arm, and I even have some of his hair and face!!

Isn't he cute!! Anyway I'm gonna spam my favorite Jack spicer videos below. So if you love him, you'll enjoy, and if you don't have any clue who he is, you can sort of get an idea!

This first one is just a tribute to him that I fell in love with.


Next is some awesome Jack Spicer and Chase Young Moments! (I'll most likely do a Chase pattern at some point XD )


And just some Jack moments!


Now that my exhausted and probably boring fangirl rantings are over, I'm gonna get back to work. Have a FANTASTIC AND SPAZZTASTICAL NEW YEAR IN 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!