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I think Schroedy likes this costuming hobby of mine. She is currently sleeping on the fabric. The white fabric, of course, as her fur wouldn't show up NEARLY as well on the blue. I'm pretty sure I don't have to cut anything more from the white though.

This is a Water Pretear costume for Anime North. Which is in two weeks. I started the costume today. Because I am THAT AWESOME. It's going pretty decently though. I have the basic shape of the bodice down. Though I need to figure out how to actually do it up in the back, as the art explanation is "It's all one piece, screw physics". I'm not sure I have enough slack to do velcro, so I may try making it lace up. I also have the underskirt done, it just needs to be hemmed. Though I want to be sure the back is done up properly because I try hemming it, I think.

So that just leaves the detailing and the overskirt. Hemming the overskirt is going to take forever. This may not have been a wise costume considering I hate hemming. Oops.

My laptop keyboard has more or less given out. The letter keys have gotten wonky in addition to the missing Ctrl and F5. So I decided it was time for a USB keyboard. All I could find at Best Buy was a roll up one. I tried it. The keys wobble and it's clearly meant for someone who types more slowly than I do. So I returned that and went to future shop and now have a proper keyboard. The only tricky thing now is positioning it so I can still use the trackpad. :p

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Zipper?

Oh, and did I mention - no, I'm positive I mentioned in my massive Animethon post of D00M that there was epic Pretear cosplay. I wish I'd had a camera. That skirt defied gravity. So did the sleeves, actually.

Zippers are EVIL though! We hates them precious!

That sounds well and truly awesome, and I may have missed the mention of it. :p

True enough...

Yeah, it was sort of buried in with a lot of other things, and you didn't say anything at the time, so I sort of thought you might have missed it. :P

Plus I'm not sure if I have the slack for a zipper, Ryan was being less than informative when he was holding the back together for me. :p

Go me!

I am so impressed that you can actually make real costumes. And with Schroedy's help!

Help... that's one word for it. :p

Cats love 'helping' their humans sew. I'm not sure why, beyond "something new to shed on!", but they do. A friend's cat tries to help the needle when she does cross-stitch, and my Fitz would sit by for hours if you were making a quilt and then joyfully sleep on the blocks as you laid it out for pinning.

Schroedy likes to chase the scissors as I'm cutting. This seems like a particularly poor idea. :p And heaven forbid I drop a bobbin. :p