MashumaroCosplay: 2020

This cute girl under here shares DNA with a bunny and a cat. She is also from the first manga I ever fell in love with. And we share the same birthday! Considering all of these facts, It was inevitable for me to cosplay her at some point.

Isn't she cute?

I made this cosplay almost entirely from materials I already had. The fashion fabric used to be curtains in my sisters wedding, red ribbon I had purchased ages ago for Asunas costume and I had got the beautiful fur fabric from my grandma as well as the zippers I used. I keep a pile of laces, ribbons interfacing, boning etc. just in case I happen to need them (because I often do). The poofiness of the bottom is thanks to my old organza curtains and leftover tulle.

My Doggo showing materials

Corset
I decided to make the cosplay in two pieces, corset and bottom. That way It would be more convenient to wear. I started the cosplay with corset. I used my old corset patterns, that I slightly altered the neckline to match reference photos. The corset has three layers: Fashion fabric with fusible interfacing, interfacing with boning channels and lining. The corset is only lightly boned and has zipper on the side. The two bows on the side are attached to the bodice.

Bottom
The bottom was a little trickier to do than the corset. It started off as a shorts and ended up as half a shorts. For the shorts I used pattern I had drafted earlier. I knew the shorts would fit me perfect, so it was an easy start.

My Doggo in front of shorts patterns

I wanted the bottom to be extra poofy, so I did a little research on how to make a petticoat.
I found this video and I highly recommend to watch it! It has exact measurements for the petticoat and the instructions are great!

A lot of pieces to make a beautiful poofy petticoat

petticoat in the making

finished petticoat.. it will be hidden forever under the fashion layer..

Next step was to put everything together, attach the zipper and waistband. It looks like a huge blob.

A blob of shorts, petticoat and fashion layer together.

puffy sleeves
I made the sleeves using two rectangular pieces. The smaller one was slightly wider than the arm measurement and the exact lenght I wanted the finished armband to be (+ seam allowances). The bigger rectangle that was around 1,5 times the width and approximately 4-5 cm longer. For the smaller piece i attached fusible interfacing and whip stitched the lace on as shown in the picture. The longer piece was gathered to match the smaller piece. Then I saw the rectangles together right sides facing each other and finished the seams with inter locker. I then attached elastic band to the seams with zig zag stitch and finished the armbands with a little hand stitching to make it a donut shaped.

Pieces needed for the armband (I ended up making he pieces a little bit smaller)

ears, gloves and shoes
The ears were super simple to make. I drafted pattern, cut the fabric, sew the sides together, put wire to the ears, and the attached them to the headband.

The gloves were the only part I had to purchase a new material. The fashion layer I used didn't stretch at all and because of that I knew the gloves would end up horrible if I made them using the same fabric. I made the gloves by simply tracing my hand on the fabric and adding triangles to match the reference photos. The I sew along the lines, cut as close to the sewn line as possible and finished the ends with additional triangle parts that had some fusible interfacing.

I had bought pair of boots from thrift store ages ago, and they happened to be perfect for Berry. I just needed to do boot covers. I made the patterns and sew the covers.

mew berry rod
I made mew Berrys weapon from insulation board, worbla and wooden stick (that was from plunger XD). I first shaped the insulation foam to match the shape I wanted, sanded it, covered in worbla, added woo filler, sanded, primed it with gesso and finally painted it.