Brigadine DONE

Some time ago now I finished the brigadine for my fiance who does live role play once a month. It looks awesome! I'll show you the first sketches (that's always fun), some action photos and some WIP shots.

Brigadine:

The basic concept is a leather vest lined with metal squares, fabric and padding. I chose a geometric pattern for the front and back just based on what I thought would look authentic. After all -  it is made from leather of a black couch, so it wouldn't work with a plain vest because the leather is too thin to give it the right look of a hardened leather surface.

I made this with two buckles under the left arm and one on the left shoulder with a prolonged sidepiece so it can be fitted to summer or winter use.

Maid dresses and Morrigan

At the moment I'm really busy sowing dresses for the maid café at Genki con 2012. I need to make 14 dresses - 7 of each design. The actual maid dresses is for the day time café and the kitsune dress is for the night café. Tea designed the dresses - she is very talented and just got in the final selection of new students of the Danish Design academy.

It is a lot of hard work, but some of the maids are helping me cutting, sowing and ironing where they can. Tea also helping and is going to work at the maid café in her own design as well! so cute!

I'm still working on the Morrigan cosplay, but the process is slow - I'm working all the time and when I'm not, I'm at Kraftwerket where we have an entire room to ourselves (not that big) with a high table for cutting fabric and room for 3 sowing machines. 

I would like to finish the Morrigan AND Lilith cosplays for Genki con, but with these 14 dresses and A LOT of working in the toy shop, I'm not sure if I can finish in time.... SUCKS!

I will work as hard and fast as I can without compromising the dresses and then get on with Morrigan  and Lilith.