Costumes | Sewing for the boy

Geralt – The Witcher – Costume Details

By on October 3, 2016

This costume has been an agony of time in getting it finished.  I have not had the time I would have liked to devote to all of the details in making it.  I feel bad that I didn’t get their swords done for the Geralt and Ciri costumes, but something’s gotta give, Man.  Momma works […]

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Ciri cosplay – Top and Pants

By on May 8, 2016

Another spring…another cosplay.  Today I am showing the pants and top for the Ciri cosplay. This is Ciri from The Witcher 3.  She is a warrior.  She wears a lot of leather. To start I made her pants out of a faux leather apparel fabric.  They are supposed to be leather and are cut in […]

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Ciri cosplay – the accessories

By on May 7, 2016

I knew that my daughter wanted to be Ciri for many, many months, but I was stumped on how to make a few of the items.  The metal belt that Ciri wears is one of them. I wasn’t sure how I would make it so that all of the pieces were the same.  I knew […]

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Cosplay Corset DIY

By on March 24, 2016

In many female cosplay costumes, a corset is a integral part of the costume.  There are a lot of “period” (however fictitious the period may be) costumes, where corsets are the norm for the female characters.  Ciri’s corset is more of a protection.  It is made of leather.  From the pictures, it doesn’t appear to […]

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