Hello lovelies,

when the days grow colder I always get the urge to embroider, crochet or knit. I like to hang out in front of the TV, watch some series, cuddle my cats and at the same time be productive.

This year I started with doing some ribbon stitching again.
I used this technique to embroider my whole Anri cosplay two years ago.
The book I used was bought in Japan and therefore I have no idea what the title of the book is.
I used the smallest hoop I had and embroidered everything on a patch of cotton.


I started out with the tracing of the pattern with pencil. I still don't have an embroidery pen. Yet.
There are only four colours I used, pink, lavender, yellow and green. The star shaped stitches are the basics for these flowers.

My ribbons were larger than in the instructions described. Because of that I changed some of the parts or left them out.

I am so sorry for the quality. Again, I was doing most of the work during the night and my light is still not good, actually it is far from good. And I am only doing the pictures with my phone camera, which is also not the best.
But it came out nicely with the green leaves The green ribbon is the only high-quality ribbon I used in this. All the other ribbons were about 1€ for 10 meter and the green ribbon was 0,60€ for 1 meter. But to be honest, for this small leaves, it didn't make a difference.

This was the finished product. And to be honest, except for the weird looking leaves on the top right part, I like it. Plus it looks like a heart too, I am really proud.




And this is what I did today, I made a little pouch out of it. I plan to put in lavender to keep away moths and to store it in one of my wardrobes.

Time needed: I made this over the span of 5 days
Satisfaction 4/5

All the best,

Aurîs Lothol

Hello lovelies,

after finishing one sleeve I was not in the mood for beginning the next one, so I started his hairpiece/crown/whatever.
The pattern I made is quite similar to a Russian kokoshnik which I found here, including a small tutorial by Atelier Nostalgia.
I forgot to take pictures of only the cut out fabric (but it would have been boring anyway, so straight to the stitched version. It only took me about 2,5h. I am getting faster. But if I do this everyday my right hand will go on a strike, I fear.

Close up of the gold stitching. I really can't remember where I bought this ribbon and there is so little left. Oh noes ;_;

He also had some green/bluish pearls on the crown, so there you go.

Things to do:
1) completely finish the ribbon stitching (two tiny details are missing)
2) stitch the wire into the frame
3) sew everything together (per hand)
4) attach a band, strip of fabric, for a better attachment on the wig

Hopefully I can finish it today!

Aurîs☆

Hello lovelies,

this time I have been really busy working on my newest cosplay and, because I moved again, my new flat. But I still live in a box castle. At least I build the dressing table yesterday. It's from ikea...

I have been working on my cosplay for a few weeks now, but never that constant.
It will be Anri from Adekan, not Shiro this time, and I want to finish it for Hanamatsuri.
I will do the right one in pink. Oh how I love the design of the mangaka!

The pattern for the bodice and the skirt part are done...with a little magical help there...

I got this cute pencil in Japan and it's a Sailor Moon merch. *__*

I cut out the pieces and then pinned them together. The first try resulted in a bodice which was much too wide. But this is already the more form fitting piece.




I actually wanted to colour the skirt part with spray paint but it didn't work out, at all. It all went kind of weird and not white at all.

 See this? It does look weird, doesn't it?

Therefore I decided to paint them with textile colours instead. Boooo.
I started with painting it black because I didn't have a white paint at home.
 That's a sleeve. I used tape to cover the parts I didn't want to colour.


And now for the part which will take me not only ages to complete but also looks so cute, I really push myself to finish it. Ribbon stitching the floral pattern onto the dress.
 
I started with drawing out the pattern on one side.

And then cutting it out. I only marked it on one side because I still needed a full sleeve pattern for the lining and the pattern is anyway symmetrical. So why bother. And me is a lazy bum.

Tadaaaah! First accomplishment.

 It grew!

Flowers on the top of the sleeve. As you can see, I only made one stitch for the petals and not two anymore. I don't know yet what I like best..

And this is the first finished ribbon stitched sleeve. My hand was dead and I worked on these for a long time.

Cost so far: 24,40€ (fabric is super cheap in Vienna if you know where to go to!)
Hours worked: 21h

Aurîs☆