I can't believe I haven't updated anything here about making Jester. She was a project I started before Covid and very slowly (Covid pretty much coincided with my chronic fatigue period) continued during it. I mostly finished earlier but then did a couple of small touch ups for the Desucon craftmanship competition this year.

I don't quite have photos of Tink yet, just a selfie to share, but hopefully I'll have some to show later.

 With such a seemingly simple costume it's amazing how long it took for me to complete. The last 1,5 years I've barely managed to work on cosplays at all so I'm both incredibly happy and also trying to wrap my head around the fact that I actually finished a costume. It's done? What?

 I have several versions of Zelda on my cosplay list, and apparently this Hannah Alexander fan work version is the first one of them I ended up tackling. The biggest reason is honestly that it was so much simper than the other two in my most current plans. More specifically, I chose this sketch version A, there's just some sort of lightness I prefer in it compared to the finished version she went with.  

Art by Hannah Alexander

I have a ton of costumes I want to make so when I go to a fabric store I always keep my eyes open for opportunities like discounts and just simply perfect fabrics. Earlier this year I visited Turku for work and found this great Sansa fabric for a really good price, and that's how I ended up doing it at this point. There are at least three costumes from Sansa I really want to make, and this was in all honesty at the bottom of that list but I'm still happy to have it made.

A year ago I started feeling like really wanting to make an Ivy costume, so I started googling different versions for one I could use as a starting point. That's when I  found the covers for the Everyone loves Ivy story. I really liked the contrast with the black & green and decided to use this one. I also really liked the design of the body and the fact that it has a structured part.

Photography by Chamira

I finished Snow White nicely before Tracon so here's some insight on the rest of the process with some good ol' making of -photos to go along.

This time it's only a photoentry! I want to share these fabulous Roxie shots Kelevar Photography took when I was visiting Jpopcon in Denmark. I have followed her work for a while and I was very excited that she agreed to have a quick shoot with me at the convention. The light and feeling in these is simply beautiful (actually reminds me a lot of The Great Gatsby too).