Hey, it's me, Hannah. I've declared this year as the year of the con, aiming to attend my first fan convention. Join me on this journey as I prepare for Court to Con 2024, a cosplay-heavy event just weeks away. I'm kicking off my cosplay with Astarion from Baldur's Gate III, focusing on his official character art look, the blue jacket with purple and gold embroidery. Follow along as I share my creative process, from fabric selection and pattern drafting to the challenges of embroidery. Despite setbacks, technical difficulties, and a broken sewing machine, my passion for this character and the cosplay journey keeps me excited. Subscribe for more cosplay adventures and join the creative fun!
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⚔️ Embroidery Pattern ⚔️
www.etsy.com/listing/15883578...
⚔️ Music Credit ⚔️
The Bard's Tale - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Perfect Timing - Spectacles Wallet and Watch
Bring on the Adventure - Raymond Grouse
⚔️ Timestamps ⚔️
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Patterning the Jacket
02:10 - Cutting the Fabric
03:42 - Sewing Gold Piping Between Panels
05:28 - Sleeve Embroidery
06:45 - Front Embroidery
10:12 - Quilting & Lining the Gambeson
10:53 - Project Progress Reveal
⚔️ Transcript ⚔️
Hey, it's me, Hannah. I have declared this year to be the year of the con. I've never been to a proper fan convention of any sort, and I've only ever created cosplays just for my own joy. But this year, this year I'm going to at least one convention. I've only bought one pass so far. I have lovingly been peer pressured into going to court to con 2024, which from what I understand is very cosplay heavy and is only a few weeks away. After chatting with some friends about what to expect and what I should do to prepare, I have decided to make this con weekend very vampire themed for no other reason than I've just wanted to cosplay a couple of vampy characters. So we're starting with the Pale Elf himself and I'm going to kick off my con cosplay journey with Astarion from Baldur's Gate three. Now Astarion has a number of different options when it comes to his outfits, but I'm going to go with his official character, Art look, which is his default armor, starting with his blue jacket with the purple jacket and gold embroidery.
There's probably a bunch of different ways I could have done this and probably easier ways too. But I decided to just map out the shapes of the blue and purple panels on my mannequin and then drape some scrap fabric to create a pattern that way. I obviously wanted this jacket to be relatively form fitting, so that's why I went this route.
Once I knew where everything was going to line up, I cut out all the pieces in the blue fabric as well as some red lining fabric and the purple velvet for the collar, all with a half inch seam allowance. Let's get to sewing.
So I'm using this gold piping bias tape to get that sort of effect in between each of the panels, and then I'm going to glue some of the leftover pearls from my last project to the piping. Once I have everything, I'll set.
There's also this like small panel of leaf detailed fabric on the sleeve, just under the arm. This actually matches the fabric of the I guess they are chaps very ornate chaps. I ordered some fabric that I'm going to have to dye that I think is going to work really well for both the chaps and the sleeve detail. I'm going to have to wait for that fabric to get here. So that might end up being in a part two.
And then I also have this really pretty purple velvet for the I guess, the black IT area on the jacket. This is where a lot of the embroidery is going to be. And I thought about and started the embroidery detail by hand. This would take me hours. I actually started shopping around for an embroidery machine. But those are so expensive, so a dear friend of mine is letting me borrow hers. In the meantime, I'm going to sew together the blue panels of the jacket and see how far we can get.
So I drove an hour to visit my friends Aaron and Morgan and borrow Morgan's embroidery machine. I had purchased some files from an Etsy shop. I went to a down below and they worked out okay. But we had to do some guesswork about lining the different pieces up. And those machines still take a good amount of time to finish.
So I was able to wrap up the sleeve details, but then I had to head home. Huge thanks to Morgan and Erin. With their support. I had everything I needed to work on the sleeves when I got back.
I basically just treated these embroideries as applications and used some golden thread and a really tight zigzag stitch on my sewing machine to attach them directly to the ...
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