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Queer and disabled cosplayer of 20+ years and cosplay educator based in the PNW. I love vintage anime, weird old JRPGs, spandex, and bunnysuits. 🧡 @silencedrowns.com

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 13h

Oh that is CUTE

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 19h

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 15h

Yeah Shizuku-tan's hair is black in canon and the purple was a concession to her image color

But you see cosplayers now with almost lilac, which is fun, but so interesting to see how abstracted it got from the original black hair

fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 18h

Ran a machine stitch and pulled it instead of going upstairs to use the ruffler foot again

Now it just needs seam finishing and pressing and the ruffle will be done

fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 19h

I ran out of ruffle this far from the end :']

A ruffle that ends about 6 inches from the end of the fabric it is being attached to

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 19h

Two of them

Apron waistband with two lace and lacing loop assemblies attached

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Yes absolutely

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Lace!
I have the lace², then added the loopy boy, then slapped on more of the small lace to hide the join between lace² and the loopy boy better

Ignore my yet to be clipped threads but I used white bobbin so it won't show through

A piece of gathered lace on an apron waistband

A piece of gathered lace with some lacing loops sewn next to it

The same lace and loop assembly but with small scalloped lace sewn in the middle, on the seam between the two other trims

White bobbin threads on the inside of the apron waistband

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

I sewed lace to my lace

A strip of black lace fabric with black lace trim attached to one edge

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Also I both Know Better (unless it's debt consolidation, blahblah specific circumstances where you would) and have only ever had one credit card so I don't actually know that feeling but I'm sure this is the sewing equivalent

This is the internet so I'm adding caveats to a shitpost lmao

fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

It depends on the costume

I was originally going to use a rose brocade for this one but decided that the lace overlay had a richer look and better texture. A lot of things are clearly a print or work better as one, but sometimes you get things that could go either way like this

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Winding your bobbin with the last of your thread feels like using a credit card to pay off your credit card

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Hemmed!

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Hand finished the inside of the hakama waistband
Just need to hem it, do the lace, and and press the pleats again

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Thankfully it's much easier to notice haha

fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

The universe wants me to work on the black parts of the costume I guess!

An empty thread spool in a sewing machine

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Good thing I love doing tiny hems on fabric that was ripped on the grain because this costume has a LOT of ruffles 🧡

White fabric with a tiny double turned hem in a sewing machine

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

I did all that stitching on the top of the waistband and then I realized.

Straps.

I'm going to have to undo it lmaoooo

Manga panels showing close ups of the apron straps and bow

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 1d

Yeah you have to either like be able to tolerate the ecchi and such, and that makes it so hard to recommend to people, especially those not already into anime

It's so good though!! Should be required reading for newbie cosplayers (minus the brownface) lmao

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PC-98 Bot @pc98bot.gang-fight.com · 2d

Battle Queen - Saikyō Fighters Retsuden // Space Project // PC-98

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 2d

........nope that was going to bug me not stitching up the rest of that seam tonight so I tossed in a light grey bobbin
It will be encased and it's light enough to not show, and now I at least have the parts attached

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 2d

Anyway wow look at all those nice gathers that are sewn for more than two inches

Two threads for extra stability and evenness, and gathered this way instead of by ruffler foot to customize the size

I like to pin in the center and then gather so they're even on both sides

A piece of white fabric pinned and with two lines of gathering thread but not gathered yet

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 2d

Lmao alright I was going to have nice progress on attaching the apron to the waistband but I ran out of bobbin. Uh. Here.

I had been doing all the same color because too lazy to switch thread but looks like I'll be locked into white for a while 🤣

A seam that's about 5 inches long and then the bobbin ran out

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 2d

Working on the apron waistband

It has two layers of interfacing for extra opacity and stiffness (without having to buy more interfacing lmao)

And some lovely decorative satin stitching, absolutely not where I accidentally cut a hole in it

A crisp white piece of fabric with a topstitched edge. There is about an inch and a half of satin stitching on the edge

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 2d

Back to hakama

I interfaced the waistband. Waow. I also sewed this seam across the top and cut the fabric there. This will be a seam on the final piece that I insert lace into, but I wanted it sewn and pressed and make it easier on future me haha

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