Why does every link on everyone else's costuming site link back to Saeru's moving wings tutorial on cosplay.com? I GOOGLED IT BECAUSE THAT TUTORIAL DID NOT MEET MY NEEDS. Goddammit. I can't use the pulley system because I won't have a hand free to constantly hold the wings open. I need a single-switch, preferably spring-oriented snap-loaded wing design, for ONE SHOT wing-opening. Once they're open they stay open until I'm off stage.
God, I pity the poor stagehand who'll be ninja-ing us offstage after our performance, they'll have to maneuver me carefully and get me to a point where someone can collapse the wings for me.
This, I might add, is why I'm planning to swap out the wing harness for a cloak in the hallways. found this amazing purple splash-dyed fabric at Savers of all places that might make a nice cloak, if I can con her into giving it to me.
Dropped as much if not more on beads today as I have on fabric to-date. And it's nowhere near all the beads I'll need - I anticipate needing to restock on all the square beads I'm using for the broadcollar. Hope to hell I don't need any more seed beads than I got - 20gm each of silver, smoke gray, and iridescent white, plus smaller amounts of purple and green for accent. The purple cost more than the three packs of 20gms put together (goddamn Japanese seed beads).
But I'm trying to do the research on various methods of opening/moving/retractible wings before I go trying to design one of my own. I know in the past some of the hardcore Masters who present at CC and Worldcon have made wings of the kind I plan to have - but most of them probably predate documentation. ARGH! Maybe I'll shoot off an email to the Mais to ask whose brain you gotta pick to get wing designs.
The bodysuit is...constructed but incomplete. Needs some tailoring and hemming but for the most part it's together. So I feel like I'm free to start beading and embellishing, because certain parts fully need to be embellished before I can sew them together, line them, etc. GIANT PROJECT IS GIANT.
God, I pity the poor stagehand who'll be ninja-ing us offstage after our performance, they'll have to maneuver me carefully and get me to a point where someone can collapse the wings for me.
This, I might add, is why I'm planning to swap out the wing harness for a cloak in the hallways. found this amazing purple splash-dyed fabric at Savers of all places that might make a nice cloak, if I can con her into giving it to me.
Dropped as much if not more on beads today as I have on fabric to-date. And it's nowhere near all the beads I'll need - I anticipate needing to restock on all the square beads I'm using for the broadcollar. Hope to hell I don't need any more seed beads than I got - 20gm each of silver, smoke gray, and iridescent white, plus smaller amounts of purple and green for accent. The purple cost more than the three packs of 20gms put together (goddamn Japanese seed beads).
But I'm trying to do the research on various methods of opening/moving/retractible wings before I go trying to design one of my own. I know in the past some of the hardcore Masters who present at CC and Worldcon have made wings of the kind I plan to have - but most of them probably predate documentation. ARGH! Maybe I'll shoot off an email to the Mais to ask whose brain you gotta pick to get wing designs.
The bodysuit is...constructed but incomplete. Needs some tailoring and hemming but for the most part it's together. So I feel like I'm free to start beading and embellishing, because certain parts fully need to be embellished before I can sew them together, line them, etc. GIANT PROJECT IS GIANT.
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