To start off with the costume, I decided to do all of the clothing worn underneath and work up from there. This means making the pants, skirt cape, and jacket.
For the pattern, I placed masking tape on the cloth to the pattern of it from my ref images. I traced around the tape, removed the tape, and then hand embroidered the pattern in with yellow embroidery thread. It took me about 6 things of thread to embroider into the cloth, and finishing sewing the red cloth. I did not add embroidery on the back of the fabric, so it is not reversible and has a definite inside.
Skirt Cape
The skirt cape was an easy part of the costume. I took a little over a yard of red fabric and folded it in half to create a triangle bandana like effect. From the looks of the armor set in game, it looks like it is more or less wrapped amongst itself over the pants and jacket than it is a fixed skirt, so I wanted to go with that. It's actually fairly easy to wrap if you have the right length, and it stays in place fairly well.For the pattern, I placed masking tape on the cloth to the pattern of it from my ref images. I traced around the tape, removed the tape, and then hand embroidered the pattern in with yellow embroidery thread. It took me about 6 things of thread to embroider into the cloth, and finishing sewing the red cloth. I did not add embroidery on the back of the fabric, so it is not reversible and has a definite inside.
Pants
With the pants, I took a basic pants pattern and made a quick pair of pants without pockets. The waist of the pants has some elastic tape instead of any buttons and zipper, and it allows it to look a little baggy while also fitting properly. The pattern on the pants went through the thing I did for the skirt cape. (No pictures currently, but will be updated with seen with the full costume)
Jacket
For the jacket, i used a random T Shirt and traced a pattern out of it for the jacket. Of course I made the sleeves long sleeved, but that's basically the only difference between the two. I then opened up the front of the jacket and hemmed it to create the opening for the zipper. I then installed the zipper.
The collar of the jacket is made of some craft fur fabric, which I had cut in half, sewn the ends together, and then folded in half while sewing it onto the jacket. I had to hand sew the collar onto the jacket as the base for the fur fabric is too open for sewing with a machine ,and required some special attention to.
For the feathers, I just made a simple feather pattern, and cut it out and sewed the details onto the individual feathers. I then sewed the five feathers into the bottom of the jacket. I'm not fully happy with them as I messed up a little bit on the measurements, but in the end it looks good when worn and that's what is important. (no pictures as well)
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