Costuming

Costuming and Sewing Projects

I enjoy turning my hand to other crafts as well, but have sewn since I was an adolescent and was creating formal evening gowns in my teens. As a result of this talent, I became involved in helping create costumes for folks who like to cosplay in the world of Anime and Science Fiction. It's a lot of fun to pull together a costume and props for a character that usually only lives as a drawing from some fictional story. There are no ready made sewing patterns and often outfits have to be constructed from something more practical than what the character is purported to be using. It requires a great deal ingenuity and inventiveness to pull off some of these fantastical characters and much of the fun is just in searching for the materials to use....

If you would like a costume made, send me clear, full frontal, back and side images of the character, including anything else that is particular to the characters persona, along with lots of lead time to search for materials and I will let you know if I can do a reasonable likeness within the time frame allowed and provide an estimate for the cost to have it done.