#now embroidery?? fabric arts??? woodworking?? all these are things I can do

[tidalfoam]

bluhhhhh *bashes my head into a wall*

[quietblizzard]

What the fuck is wrong with me, I shouldn’t be looking at embroidery machines, i still don’t have a serger OR a dress form. 

Because I finally ordered the Simplicity patterns for Anna’s dresses (despite complaining about them before) and a dress form would be a heck of a lot more useful (for fitting the bodices/corset) than spending hundreds of dollars on a new machine, then additional money for the embroidery patterns when I can just use the applique patterns that come with the dress patterns anyway.

Goddammit.

(Complaining about lack of workspace, plus pondering all the stuff I’ll have to do for my upcoming cosplays under the cut.)

I’m not actually going to buy an embroidery machine. I need those other two things much sooner, the dress form for general things and the serger for my eventual Sailor Uranus that I SWEAR I will do. (She’s my dream cosplay. It’s going to happen, hopefully this spring.)

However, I am still an idiot, though for a completely different reason. I apparently decided today that I should do three cosplays for the con I’m going to in November. Three brand new cosplays that I will have to do from start to finish.

Guys, all my current stuff is in multiple pieces and as a result, I have ZERO cosplays to wear to the sci-fi/fantasy convention I’m attending a week and a half from now. There’s no chance of me pulling off a miracle and getting any of them done in time, I have nowhere to work on anything. Kairi’s vest is THIRTY-ONE PIECES. NOT INCLUDING THE ZIPPER AND ALL THE TRIM. The dining room table, the only table big enough for cutting/sewing in the entire house, is constantly in use by my mother. Right now, it has an in-progress jigsaw puzzle on it. Last week, it had her packing for the camping trip she and my dad went on. Etc.

And as for props? Forget about it. Constructing my keyblade back in March was a nightmare. We have two huge workbenches in my dad’s woodworking shop in the basement. Perfect place to work, right?

Wrong.

One is covered in my mom’s disorganized crafting supplies. Took me half an hour to find our X-acto knife when I was starting the keyblade. The table is maybe three by six, seven at the most. But she has her yard art, and birdhouses, and wreath-making supplies, and god knows what else, covering the entire thing. Point is, there is zero work space.

The other work bench is much bigger, say four by eight feet. But half of it is covered in MORE junk. There was barely enough room for me to fit my keyblade on there to work on it. And speaking of working on it.

The workshop that my dad NEVER uses must be immaculately clean AT ALL TIMES. This means no leaving anything out (unless it’s his stuff of course). Every last single thing I was working with, aside from the keyblade itself, had to be put away. Even if I would be using the exact same stuff the next morning. And the leaving the keyblade there was forced on him by my mother. Because she didn’t want me using glue on her dining room table. And what was I supposed to do, glue it together in the basement and then bring it upstairs to dry overnight??? Yeah, I can see NO WAY that could POSSIBLY go wrong. /s

So yeah, he yelled at me for scraps of newspaper on the floor. What else is new.

ANYWAY, back to me somehow magically making three cosplays in five months.

Two of the costumes involve applique work, something I’ve never done before. One involves a lot of leatherwork, something that I have almost zero experience in. This includes sewing a pair of moccasins, something I actually have done before, my only leatherworking experience, though in a different style. (I did Ojibwe-style moccasins in an Ojibwe crafts class in college, these will be more Plains-style with the switch-out-able bottoms.) Not to mention the prop-work: a magic staff, plus the shoulder armor(?) and hat for the Silent Magician; AND a sword, shield, bow, quiver, and arrows for Link.

There is no way in hell I’m getting all of that done.

So now the question is, what do I drop? Maybe my excitement about Anna will die down within the usual twenty-four hour period and I can just concentrate on the two that I decided on last week? Because I can’t drop the Silent Magician, I already have her wig, boots, and MOST of the fabric, plus notions and dye, for the robe. (I had to lengthen a trapeze dress pattern and didn’t allot enough fabric for the sleeves when I originally went fabric shopping back in January. GOD I hope they still have that fabric.) And I have my heart pretty set on Link, I was originally hoping to do his Gerudo Vai outfit for that con coming up in a week and a half (though I’ll be doing his snowquill outfit for the November con. I’m not an idiot). I even have a Sheikah slate! (but literally nothing else yet, haha)