Sunday, September 29, 2013

Magical Nuko ☆ Len Len Gloves

Hello everyone! This is the first of a series of tutorials for this specific Len cosplay. :) For all of the tutorials I will be using the same reference pic for all six tutorials. :) I know, it's a lot of tutorials but I'm up for the challenge! :D This tutorial will be so super duper simple that I'm not sure if I should put up a tutorial for it. 

STEP 1: Reference Picture!! :D


STEP 2: Gathering materials:
  • A pair of white gloves (length: to the wrist)
  • Baby blue ribbon
  • Hot glue and hot glue gun
  • Yellow fabric
  • Needle and yellow thread
  • Flexible measuring tape
  • Sewing pins
  • Scissors
  • Printer paper
  • Pencil/pen

STEP 3: Take your gloves and make sure that they fit your hands. Then take the flexible measuring tape and measure the circumference of the bottom of the glove. 

STEP 4: Take the circumference of the glove bottom (this is your width) and 1 inch (this is your height) and make your pattern. Cut out your pattern and pin it to your folded yellow fabric. Cut out the pattern of fabric and you should end up with two copies of the paper pattern in yellow fabric.

STEP 5: Take your strips of fabric and pin them to your gloves in a "hemmed" fashion. Now sew them.

STEP 6: When you're done sewing the yellow boarders onto the gloves take your ribbon and cut a foot or so. Then take the ribbon and tie it into a neat bow. Repeat for the other bow.

STEP 7: When both of your bows are tied, heat up your hot glue gun and hot glue the bows to your gloves.

OPTIONAL: If you don't want to glue the bows to the gloves then take some velcro and hot glue the hook part to the backs of the bows and the fuzzy parts to the gloves. You can also sew the velcro to the gloves and bows. Then you'll be able to remove the bows whenever you want to use the gloves for something else.

Thank you to everyone that has visited my tiny blog. :) It grows every time someone views a post or follows me. :) Yep, so I will see how long it takes me to get the tutorial vid out, so please be patient with me. My computer access is limited for some things (aka I can't get onto YouTube from my home computer. D:< ). 

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Hatsune Miku Magnet Headphones

Hey guys! Here's my awesome tutorial for Hatsune Miku's Magnet Headset. :) Lets hope that it doesn't totally fail on me. ^^; I've been wanting to make these for a while because they're the only thing that I'm missing from my Miku Magnet cosplay. >:T Well actually that's not completely true, I'm also missing the gloves, but I think I can get away with not having them. :) This tutorial is for the full size bulky photo shoot headphones. I'll be making another tutorial for headphones that are more comfortable to wear at a convention. :) But yeah, here's the tutorial!

STEP 1: Reference picture!! XD




STEP 2: Gathering materials:
  • A headband
  • Black Sharpie
  • Black paint (optional)
  • Thick foam board
  • A jumbo paper clip
  • Hot glue sticks and hot glue gun
  • Mini hat (see Mini Hats on a Budget  Tutorial for instructions)
  • Masking Tape
  • Paper
  • Heavy books
  • Elmer's Liquid Glue
  • Scissors
  • A pen
  • Hot pink card stock
  • A craft knife or sharp pocket knife (so to cut out the designs in the butterfly template)
  • Pliers (option to use for straightening the paper clip)
  • Magnet butterfly and earpiece templates:

STEP 3: On a Mac (which is what I use) the butterfly should be 'fit to page' and the earpieces should have both pieces on one sheet of paper. The pic itself should be 50% of the actual size. WARNING: you should probably print out the butterflies mirrored to each other. I didn't do that so I had to cut it out and color the back side black. ^^;

STEP 4: Take your templates and cut them out. Then take your craft knife or sharp pocket knife and painstakingly cut out all of the white designs from the butterfly templates. Be careful when useing a knife, they are very sharp and pointy.

STEP 5: Take your newly cut butterfly templates and glue them to your card stock. Place a piece of paper in between the flat surface, the butterflies and the stack of books. These papers prevent the glue from drying on the surface, the other 'wing' and the stack of books on top of them. Now place the card stock under a stack of heavy books and on a flat surface so that they will dry flat. Then wait for the glue to dry for the whole day and the following night. This allows the glue to dry all the way before we disturb it. :)

STEP 6: After the templates have dried completely take them and cut them out again. If your card stock is not the color that you want, you can color the designs so that it suites your taste. :)

STEP 7: When you've cut out the wings take the earpieces and cut them out if you hadn't already and glue them to your wings. But before you glue them take one of earpieces and trace it onto your foam. You'll use this foam in the next step. As an optional step you can glue them to card stock so that they have a more rigid look and feel to them, otherwise just cut them out and paste 'em. Place the earpieces (at least, if not the whole thing if you want) under the stack of heavy books on a flat surface so that they will dry flat. :)

STEP 8: Once they're dry, take the stack of books off of the wings. Now take your foam and cut out the two circles that you've previously traced onto the foam. These circles will be the base part of your actual headphone that you'll glue to the headband. Heat up you hot glue gun, while you wait put on the headband and place the foam circles under each side so that they look how you want them to look. :) Then take a pen and mark where the end of the headband is. The mark should look something like a sideways bracket - ] this is just so that you know where to glue the headband to the circles. :) When your hot glue gun is heated up take it and glue the circles to the headband then wrap masking tape around the whole thing. (I don't have a pic of this but you can see it in the vid I will try to post soon. :D )

STEP 9: Now when they dry all the way take your butterflies and hot glue them to the foam circles that you've glued to the headband. Make sure to wear the headband during this step so that the butterflies aren't off center or anything like that. :)
Color the edges of the headphones so that there's no foam uncolored.

STEP 10: Now that you've glued the butterflies to the headphones it's time to make the microphone! XD It's super duper easy to make. All you have to do is take your jumbo paper clip and straighten it out as much as you can. Then, with the headphones on, stick the paper clip into the right headphone. Have someone help you adjust it so that it's in the right position. Take out the paper clip and place some hot glue on top of the hole that it has left then push the paper clip back into the hole. Adjust it while the glue is still hot or it'll be impossible to get it at the right angle! >~< Now take the scraps of the foam and cut a small rectangle piece. This is for the actual microphone bit for the end of the paper clip. :) Color/paint it black with the two red stripes on the front. Stick it onto the end of the wire, adjust before gluing. When it's in the right place, glue it. 

STEP 11: You're almost done with your headphones! XD Yey! All you have to do now is glue the mini hat to the top of the headband and you're done! So, if look in the pics or even in other pics Miku's hat is shifted to the right so that it's off center. For this part have someone help you, so you take the hat place it where you want it and keep a mental note of where it was so that when you remove the hat you'll know where to put the hot glue. You'll place the glue in two places once directly on the headband and the other on a little piece of black ribbon. Take the ribbon and make it go across the headband so that most of the length is on either side of the headband and only a small section is actually on the headband. Let the glue cool and you've got a new set of Magnet Miku headphones! XD

Thanx to everyone who views this tutorial and all of my other ones! It hasn't been a year yet and I'm already receiving views from around the world! Please comment and such! I would love your feedback! :D 

Here's a few of the pics I took of me in my Miku Magnet cosplay. :)

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Kagamine Rin's Headphones and Bow

Hey guys! I was surfing around YouTube a couple of days ago and I found this tutorial vid for Rin's headphones and bow. I've watched it at least three times and it's really simple and it's easy to follow. It doesn't cost that much either. All you have to buy is the craft foam, the headband and the colored paper. All of which costs very little, you can get the headband at a dollar store, the foam you can probably find it in the craft section at Walmart or something like that. You can also find the colored paper at Walmart. :) So yeah, well here's the link and have an awesome time making your headphones and bow! I will try to post pics of my own set of headphones.
Rin Tutorial Link

Monday, September 16, 2013

Italy's Flag from Hetalia

This tutorial will be so short and simple that you'll cry in embarrassment because you never thought of doing it this way. :D But really, this project will take you maybe a half hour to an hour to make depending on how pro you are at sewing.

STEP 1: Reference Pic, all the flag is a rectangle of white fabric on a stick with all of the edges hemmed so that the fabric won't fray. Here's a pic anyway. :)


STEP 2: Gathering materials and stuff, you'll need-
White fabric
A wooden flagpole (like the one from one of those mini American flags)
A needle and white thread
Sewing machine (optional)
Sewing pins
Scissors (optional)

STEP 3: Measure out the amount of fabric that is desirable to you. Cut it as needed. 

STEP 4: Roll and pin the hems on all sides. You don't want the hems to be too big or your flag will look a bit awkward when everything's said and done.

STEP 5: Sew the hems then take one of the shorter sides and make a pocket for the stick to slide in. Sew two of the three sides of the pocket so that only one end is open. 

STEP 6: Slide the stick into place and ta da! You've got a white flag!

As you can tell this is a super easy tutorial and almost everyone that has just a bit of sewing skills can do this project. :) It's the rest of the Italy cosplay that's hard to make. ^_^; So yeah, enjoy your new flag! :D Also, please visit my YouTube page and please leave comments and reviews below. :D

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Cheshire's Tail from Pandora Hearts

Hey guys! Well I was looking through my tutorial drafts and I found this one that didn't have anything typed up except the title. So I've decided to create this tutorial and give it to you, the public. :) So there's my speel, now onto the tutorial!! XD

STEP 1: Reference Picture!! XD

STEP 2: Gathering Materials:

  • Black and white fabric
  • Scissors
  • Needle and thread (thread colors: black and white)
  • Flexible measuring tape
  • 1 inch strip of Velcro
  • Cotton balls/batting
  • Hot glue gun and glue

STEP 3: Measure however long you want your tail to be then subtract about four inches. This will be the measurement for your black fabric. The four inches that you subtracted is the measurement for the white fabric. Next make a pattern. The black should start at being 2-2 1/2 inches wide then taper down to about one inch at the end. The white fabric should be one inch wide and one side needs to be rounded. This side will be used as the end of the tail.

STEP 4: Cut out the patterns. You should have two white pieces and two black pieces. Sew the white pieces to the black pieces so that you have two 2D copies of the tail. Then sew the to tails together then flip it inside out. Stuff the newly sewn tail with the cotton balls/batting.

STEP 5: When your tail is stuffed, tuck the ends in at the wide end of your tail and sew them together. Heat up the hot glue gun and glue the hook-y part of the Velcro to the tail and the fuzzy part to the pants. You can also sew the Velcro, I recommend that you use a sewing machine for that. ;)

STEP 6: If you have your pants already, then you can put the Velcro on. Before you do that, you'll want to make sure to figure out where you want to put it so that your tail is nice and centered or it'll look funny. >~< Once you have that figured out sew/hot glue the fuzzy part of the Velcro to that spot.

And there you go! A beautiful Cheshire tail just for you! :D Thanx for reading this tutorial. I will see if I can get a tutorial vid up soon. I can't guarantee when though. ^^;

Random Tip #1

Hey guys. I've decided to start a new thing called "Random Tips". These tips could and will be about anything and everything. There can also be two or three tips in one post, so I guess that instead of being one tip for every post it's one post for however many tips I like. So here's my very first random tip:

Wig Care- Non heat resistant wigs like temps 160 degrees or lower and they also like to be treated with a four part water one part fabric softener mixture.