Eurocosplay Progress - Bustle

Now, I try to keep everone updated with my EC process. It's nice to see that the other contestants are fairly open with their costume choices as well. In Germany it's always a biiiiig secret.

So here's my progress (you can guess what it will be, but it will be obvious in a few posts ;D)

This is my base pattern (+ a backpart of a skirt). It has three darts in a total (the one in the back isnt' good to see).

After cutting and sewing the fabric, I applied bias tape for the boining. The lowest bone goes with the hem.

There is also a little piece of bias tape in each corner of the left side....

.. as well as in the upper middle. Later on a bone will be put in them in a diagonal direction to the others, so that it becomes more stable.

Here's the backpart of the skirt. As it is smaller than the rest, it'll keep the boning rounded and leans against my back.

Time to put the boning in and sew the backpart to the actual bustle part...

Since the bustle part is still a little too wide, I ruffled it, and then put the waistband over it.

Finished bustle^^

Japan Expo

Two weeks until Japen Expo in Paris! I'm all excited because it's my first foreign Con, I'll meet people of EC and cosplay with dear friends.

For saturday I'll bring Yuuko (Cover vol. 3). This is already finished, I just have to work a little on the shoulder straps as they suck atm.

For sunday or friday I decided to bring Umi in her chizeta dress from Magic Knight Rayearth. This one is new but almost finished. Here are some progress shots:

I do bellydance myself, so I really wanted a bellydance costume for once. And one without harempants. Mangaka tend to think bellydancers wear them, but most actually don't.
Sadly the costume isn't very accurate compared to real bellydance costumes, so I take some freedom in decorating it with sequins. Me loves glitter!


Btw, shooting Tira today. FINALLY.

Tira Ringblade I

I am currently working on a Tira costume (SC II 2nd Player - the golden one). Of course that requires the absolutely wonderful ringblade weapon she uses. I love that weapon.
The decision of which weapon to chose was rather hard, as I have a little handicap on that: I need to be able to detach it into pieces for transportation.
In the end my choice fell on one of the new weapons from SC V - Azi Dahaka.

As many people do, I started out with a hula hoop, that was cut into three parts.

One of the pieces looks different, I'll come to that later.
Of course, they need to be mendable to one. A hula hoop usually is empty inside, so I bought fitting spars (not sure of the term here, round pieces of wood >.<) and hammered them in one side of a piece each. They now can be plugged into each other.

A detail of my "plugs".

Now it's time to make a pattern for the blades. I think the pictures talk for themselves.

I think I'll make the blades a little bigger.
See you next time when I've worked a little further =)