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dont know how to get this gunk off my car so ive just been driving lol REALLY bumpy today

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Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi's Jacket!

It's been a while since I posted a big project to here. And after umm 5? something years I return with what is easily the best thing I have ever made. I am so proud with how this jacket turned out! So in terms of reference images I used a mix of Kim's actual in game portrait, model and the official jacket.

1. The quilting marathon

The fully quilted lining was by far the easiest and also most time consuming part of this project, both with ruling all the lines and then sewing them all. The main body is two layers of quilting and the sleeves are just one layer. This is where I ran into my first hurdles, first of getting the quilting to line up on the main body and I severely underestimated the amount of thread needed for quilting and then overestimated how much I would need. 2. The Outer

This section was overall very easy, the main struggle was in dying the duck cotton. The sheer volumes of times I rinsed this fabric in attempts to get the dye to stick and not wash out it. I probably spent an equal amount of time dying as I did quilting. But! It was worth it in the end for this lovely orange. 3. Inner Pockets

This part was rather fiddly but I am very happy with how they turned out. The pockets themselves where the most frustrating part of this project so I don't have any photos until the finished jacket of them.

4. The Patches

I got these amazing patches from AValleyofStars on etsy. They were easily the most expensive part of this project (I will forever curse American shipping prices). Because of this they were also the most nerve wracking part to sew because it was going to a very expensive mistake!. I first sewed them onto a back piece of orange so I would both have a greater margin to sew them into the jacket and to maintain the stability of the jacket since I was cutting into it to inlay the patches. Overall I am very pleased with how they came out :) 5. Final Patch

This was one of the last things I made before putting the jacket together. It was shocking hard to find a reference image outside of Kim's portrait because literally everyone draws this differently and the patch on the official one is the ZAUM logo not Kim's. I drew out the design, machine sewed then hand embroidered the design. And then sewed and trim the boarder before hand sewing to the jacket.

6. The Final Jacket

And that's a wrap! This is project is easily the best thing I've made and I am so proud of it. Below are some more specific thoughts making this jacket has produced about my creative project for anyone interested. (I might also post some of my other disco projects soon!)

This project was a real break through project for me in terms of my creative project.

I've always kind of been in doubt in my textiles skills (I'm not good just better/ more knowledgeable than the people in my immediate vicinity). But this turned out so well, because my processes for it was different.

Taking breaks, holy hell I usually never take breaks unless I need to wait for something. This project was a great test in patience. When I'm getting too tired or frustrated it's better to go lie down/do something else for 10 20 minutes then come back with a fresh look. It saves a lot of mistakes and accidents because I'm getting annoyed

Checking over everything right after I do it. After you sew every seam check it fully to make sure nothing was missed, because it's an easy fix now but won't be 2 steps later. This saved so many headaches of small sections where I'd just missed catching the seam.

Similar to point 1 is really taking the time to understand the instructions and think on the parts I didn't understand. I spent a lot of time at work just rotating this jacket and the instructions in my head to figure out how to do it and I feel it sounds silly to say Just thinking about it improves the product significantly but it does! Because by the time I get to the actual jacket I've already got a solid understanding of what I need to do.

As mentioned above, when I'm not sure what to do textiles wise, I usually defer to my mother for help because I didn't trust myself or my skills to follow my gut on the right method. However with some unexpected help from my brother (deferring to me fully for help with his sewing project over mum) I finally got over that hurdle of not trusting my judgement, and it worked out fantastic!

And the product of all of that is a much healthier creative process, a strong lesson in the virtue of patience and trusting myself that I know what I'm doing and I'm, occasionally good at things :) This is easily the best thing I've ever made and I am so so proud of how it turned out. Hopefully this year I'll have some more time for projects like this. I want to keep making beautiful things that I can be proud of.

Thanks for reading all this way, have a wonderful day <3

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-Sea coast at night. Near the beacon-

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I keep showing my housemate dan hentschel videos and they're legit like baby sensory videos to her she's giggling like a fucking toddler

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Yeah eat your beige stupid fuck

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Break me off a piece of that psychotic trickster.

Thanks to @xneonknight for the inspiration for this LMAO

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my finest voice acting work

Fuck you. Fuck you fuck you FUCK you for not liking bfdi, fuck you for joking about bfdi. Fuck you for dating an animator for bfdi for clout. Fuck you. That's some people's ONLY comfort in their life. Bfdi has literally saved my AND other people's lives. Fuck you. I hope your kidney faileds. FUCK YOU DIE

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Ah yes, just a regular enkidu, and not a 35’ murder dog

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love it when my friends say "you would do numbers on Tumblr" buddy I am on Tumblr. and the number is 3

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This is making me feel like peasantry being forced to watch my lords feast upon my bountiful harvest and not being allowed a single one

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that one unemployed friend at 2 am

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my nephews lunch that he packed

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Guitar pick used by Nine Inch Nails in the 90s

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