Some successes, some failures

Successes this week:

Here are some of the arm cape bracer parts, all golded up too:

Also, horn gold accent pieces (yay for gold spray paint):

All of these gold things will get more paint shading/highlighting.  The gold is the base though.



Other success:  Bracers!

I did these today and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.  I was concerned that mixing mediums of fabric and thermoplastic would look bad, but I think it'll work.  Paint job to come when I paint all the other stuff.



Failures:

I got this fabulous pink shiny fabric which was to be those parts on the horns.

To give it some dimension, I spent loads of time sewing pleats and then I sewed the pleats in different directions.. (sorry, not really sure how to explain it).

After all of this though... it ended up looking pretty crappy.  There's just too much crinkle and reflection in this fabric for this pleating style to work...  Alas, back to the drawing board for this portion.  I put the helmet aside while I try to think of a new idea =(

Boooo RL getting in the way of crafting

So today my goal was to get my headpiece completed (in line with my calendar goals).  I usually work Tues-Sat, but this week was a Mon-Fri week.... buuuut I didn't realize that until a text arrived from a coworker at 9:40am asking where I was.  Oops!  There goes my helmet completion deadline =(

I did work quite a bit on the "horns" this weekend though.  Mapping out square-ish shapes on curved horns is more difficult than it seems.  I pinned on the shapes and practiced my tetris skills in the process:

I then created horns to go in these horns made of cotton batting to kind of give it a bit of poofiness.  I sewed between all the shapes.  Sadly my sewing machine could only really do the bottom couple rows and the rest was hand sewing.  Hence each one taking like 5 hours.... -_-

I attached that black trim I used on the arm pieces to the sewing lines and next is making the pink pointy parts and painting the square gems that go in each of the segments.  Wow.. this sounds confusing when I try to explain it.. oh well -_-

To-Do List: ftw or ftl?

So I was away from home for the last 3 days so I wasn't able to work at all on the costume; so instead, I made a to-do list to get an idea of how much is left.  It's two pages long....

And in efforts to not feel totally overwhelmed I put mini-deadlines in calendar form:

Oh, and you'll notice Comicon the weekend before Blizzcon.  That's because I'm making that my deadline if I can.  There's a comicon in my city that weekend and I think I'm going to come out of the closet in my home-city and wear my costume there.  That way, it'll be sort of a test run in timing of how long it takes to get on, makeup done, etc. as well as if there's anything that needs work before Blizzcon.

Right now I'm sitting and hand-sewing the square sections on my helm -_-

Curse you, Blizzard!

It's Blizzard's fault I haven't made any progress this last week  >.<

And this is why:

Yes, I got into the closed beta.

It is way too freakin' fun and addictive.

I promise to do more costume work this week =(