… are from knitting needles and not a keyboard. Yesterday, I finished a set of gloves for my BayCon Variety Show costume. This leaves me with the following list of things to do – assemble the headpiece assemble the staff finish modifying the dress make a cloak make a redacted find a makeup tutorial edit […]
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If you’ve read my bio or seen me at cons, you know that I cosplay. I’ve become known locally for my costumes created using knitted or crocheted pieces. This year will be no exception, since I have been asked to speak again at BayCon. I’m behind where I want to be in the fabrication phase,
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Lucy Ravenscar creates a lot of awesome amigurumi. Amigurumi is the Japanese term for small knitted or crocheted stuffed toys. I’ve made a few of her patterns, but one of my favorite is R2D2. The pattern is cleverly done using a lot of increases and decreases. The main body and center foot are all one piece.
Eleanor Hughes and I play tabletop roleplaying games. We are both unrepentant D10 addicts, and are constantly on the look out for the perfect dice bag. One of the first times I wore my R2D2 hat, Elanor commented she would love to have a R2D2 dice bag. It was one of those moments when I
Costumes are spawned by small ideas, not huge ones. My award winning Klingon K’ntt’r of House Cr’chet costume is a fine example of that. As I was leaving the BayCon 2012 Masquerade, I got stopped by a few people. They were aware that this was my first masquerade, and encouraged me to keep on making
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This knitted costume based on Wonder Woman is the first costume I entered in a masquerade. I didn’t intend to enter one at all. January 2012, I came across a pattern on Ravelry called the Wonder Woman Jumper. I remember watching the television series completely enraptured with Lynda Carter’s portrayal of the Amazon princess. When I
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Adventures In Knitting – I’m not sure if I’d be the aunt, or one of the grizzled heroes. Why can’t I be a grizzled aunt-hero? Crochet Death Star – Do you have to ask if I’ll be making this? I’m Missing In My Own House – I’ve been tempted to do this even though I know my
Sometimes it’s not about the big sweeping costumes. Sometimes it’s about the accessories. Convolution 2013 had a masked ball instead of a masquerade. Instead of dressing in a costume, I used it as an opportunity to dress up. Except I had one problem. I am blind as a bat without corrective lenses of some sort.
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This is the costume that started me thinking about entering masquerades. I made the shawl, the gloves, and the hat, grabbed a black skirt and blouse, laced myself into a corset, and put in a pair of fangs. Instant vampire. I wore it to BayCon 2011. I had one or two people ask to take
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Continuing my theme of creating things from a fandom I’m not officially part of, I present a knit Dalek I made for a friend. The pattern is cleverly named Extermaknit. I remember being intimidated when I first made this. There were several skills involved in making it that I tried for the first time. It
