♥♥Tracon 9 ♥♥

♥Saturday♥

I was happy to be able to cosplay Guchuko on saturday. The costume had been just laying on my room ready to be used for months, but because of the wig incident I had to wait till this very day.. The wig was the biggest problem of the whole outfit. It had caused problems even before the convention and it didn't end there. At some point at the convention I realized my hands and guchukos white fur collar were purple. purple, because of the wig. the horrible thin wig had now dyed the white parts of the outfit.(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

Guchuko in her natural habitat

Excluding the wig, Guchukos outfit is very comfortable to wear. I love her cape, eventhough I had to constantly watch the bows and I love the scythe eventhough it was a nuisance to carry everywhere with me. In the end all of the suffering was worth it and infact I didn't even feel like I was suffering at all. I just enjoyed potraying as one of my favorite character ♥～(‘▽^人)

Other than worrying about the wig I went to watch cosplay competitions. I really enjoyed this years show. Usually the mood of the performances have been a little too serious and the joy has been missing. But this year the missing joy was there and I found myself smiling after the performances. It made me want to participate even more in some kind of cosplay competition. I was also surprised by the number of cosplayers on saturday, It has been a while since I have seen so many colorful costumes and so many gorgeous props and details.(=^-ω-^=)

probably my favorite pic of this cosplay

Also later in the evening we had a little photoshoot of Guchuko. There are couple pictures I really liked :3

♥Sunday♥

Luka finding her way to her kingdom

I decided to wear sandplay Luka on sunday since it had been a while since I last wore it. The main reason It had been unused was that the hoop skirt wasn't firm enough and I haven't had time to fix it. I didn't took much photos of this outfit because I think I already have enough decent photos, but I did take couple dreamy shots by the lake.(•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑


Next time I'll make A HUUGE post about Pantheon wip, so stay toon~

Because Luka is AWESOME!

Fabrics and other supplies

For two years I dreamed of making Luka's sandplay singing of the dragon outfit and last year I finally made it (ღ˘⌣˘ღ) I'm kinda proud of the finished product but there's still couple things I could fix.. for example adding some tulle to the skirt.. maybe I'll do it in the future  (´ω｀★)

So at the beginning of the post you can see where I started from. I used over 12 meters fabric for this outfit and approximately 11 meters of lace and other ribbons. Needless to say it took me a long time to finish this. 

hand sewn embroideries and tiny pearls

I started Luka's costume from the embroideries. And after those I made the skirt part. The skirt was actually really easy to make. But because it had so many layers of ruffles it took some time to actually finish it ~(>_<~)

cutting and sewing and making pattern for the skirt

The bodice was a lot trickier than the skirt. It had more details and I had to be careful not to make any mistakes, because the shiny violet fabric would make every single mistake clearly visible. ☆￣(＞。☆) There was one seam I remade 4 times, because I wasn't satisfied with how it looked like (sometimes it is hard to be a perfectionist XD) 

I couldn't find any pictures from the dress from behind, so I decided to put a lacing and a big bow in the back of the dress. I also put rigilene boning for the upper part of the outfit. It was my first time using rigilene boning and I have to say I really liked how easy it was to handle. 

making pattern for the lilac part

first prototype- had to alter it a lot 

rigilene boning

Lacing ( and dust and bad lightning)

the magic of petticoat

And after 120 hours the finished product looked something like this :

The dress was ready but I still had to make the headpiece and the gloves and golden chain (or whatever it is called). The headpiece was easy to make, I had earlier bought fake roses and I painted them with red and black fabric colors (they used to be yellow). I glued some pearls (later I was wondering why I didn't sew them). I really don't have anything to say about the gloves. I thought they were harder to make, but they didn't take much time to finish them.

So that was my SandplayLuka. I'll post better pictures of me wearing the dress when I make post about my finished cosplayoutfits! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))