i have to wait to get navy fabric to do the sailor uniform bib thing but other than that...!!!!

it looks good from the front too i didn't take a pic of it tho bc i forgot

i pleated the skirt (and burned my finger in the process) but tomorrow i'm sewing it together probably

YOU'RE GETTING THERE!!

i love making sailor uniforms thingies

EIRIN IM SO PROUD OF MYSELF...

IM PROUD OF YOU TOO

my roommate has a pattern for it but from what i've seen, it dosen't really look the way i want it to? just from seeing it on her outfit

she's doing a sailor disney group with some friends and our other roommate... it's more like. puffy???

i figured i'd just do two cuts of the same piece, sew those together and then sew those onto the cardigan...

ohhh right the sailor moon ones are more... rounded right

and i think to save myself time & money i'm going to do eli's outfit as just like, a nice top insteaad of a dress for now, at least

i bought a petticoat which should be here soon

and yeah! they're al ittle more round

she found a generic sailor uniform pattern in the local fabric store

petticoats

if you have some spare fabric you can always try altering her pattern

hmm... maybe i'd just buy extra fabric and then try out both ways? see which looks better...

i'm excited to start eli's >w< i feel like i have a lot to do but i hopefully chunked it up enough that it's manageable before valentine's day

but yeah that's the basic idea, you just cut two of the collars and sew them together

though i'd recommend getting some lightweight fusible interfacing and sandwiching it between the two layers, it makes it look stiffer

ohh, okay

and haruki's collar has that red trim?? to it? should i just get a bit of red fabric and sew it on...

i'd get red bias tape and sew it on!! but before you sew the pieces together

that way you won't see the thread underneath

ohhh okay!!

she looks like such a fun character to cosplay...

i think i'm going to have a lot of fun, i'm just happy to get it done... i have this huge sense of accomplishment righ tnow

especially since any past cosplays i've done were just closet stuff or very easy to put together. i've never sewed much of anything...

and BAM i just checked my email and i got my refund from pinkyparadise about that double charge

that feeling is the best tbh

also YASS i wanted pinkyparadise contacts but now im scared to order from them omfg

my roommate figured out what happened- it was like

i had signed into paypal to pay the thing but

it opens paypal in another window?? and when you go back to the original window it says continue... but the continue link goes to paypal again?

the text with it says something about like 'click continue to finish your purchase' or something like that

and i don't think people catch it? i definitely didn't

ohhhh that makes sense

my roomie literally JUST came in with two pinkyparadise packages LMAO oops...

i'm a little ehhhh tho, one of the pairs i got from them like

my eyes are two different prescriptions and when i ordered them, they emailed me to say that both lenses were different colors????

but i was like, okay. i'll get a different pair

so instead of these i got these

they were the next best ones, imo... but i'm still really bad at choosing colored contacts so who knows!! how it'll turn out!

ooo they look so bright too

yeah

contacts are hard

man, i haven't gotten shoes for haruki yet either but tbh she wears like. moccasins probably, this poor girl. i'll just throw on my converse shoes for now

UGH SERIOUSLY PINKYPARADISE.....

the second pair of contacts i chose to replace my original order doesn't have the one prescription i need

=____=

ohh no

your vision too bad to go without glasses/contacts?

it's not terrible, i could go without prescription contacts and wear my glasses while i have my colored lenses in but it just makes it easier? if pictures and stuff happen