Don't forget to plan ahead how you are going to use the toilet in costume. 😉 Thank you for this gerat video!

Thank you for inviting me into your thespian sewers charming mind . No doubt an effective cosplayer needs to be a lateral thinker and problem solver like you. Thank you again and such fun and humour in you discourse.

I just wanted to say, watching this video has given me a lot of insight that what im already doing now for my cosplays such as list and ways to keep track of progress and sketches. I want to be a props master or a Art designer for films and Tv and my step into that was cosplay and doing short films. At the end of this i just wanted to say thank you, with out you realsing it you showed me that im doing what a job un this field would ask of me. Your videos are great so thank you!

So helpful I would love to see a video on a costume bible flip through where you talk about all the different ways you keep track of costumes in industry

Thank you! This is very good information.

I should really start planning lol, in february it'll be a year since I started my strawberry x miku project and I still am nowhere near finishing it completely.... I just get discouraged seeing how much I still need to do and then I always end up taking huge breaks, sometimes even months

This is great! This is the first video of yours I've seen, but I've already subscribed!

So I'm sewing for several years now, self taught of course. And I always was pazzled by this small pleats in the lining of jakets etc, cos you see these instructions in historical sewing books as well. Ans now I know, THANK YOU 😊

This was insanely helpful. Thank you so much for posting it. Off to binge watch the rest of your videos now.

I found your videos today and subscribed by the end of the first one. I’m seriously loving everything you’ve talked about. I like a lunatic jumped into cosplay helping my friend build their dream werewolf costume. I’d done a bit of seeing, but most of my knowledge was theoretical second hand from my mom taking a tailoring class when I was four. Now I’m looking at doing my own first involved cosplay and I’d love any recommendations you could give on fabric. Because I don’t know how not to jump in way over my head I’m making a dwarf costume based on a combination of Joseon period commander’s armor using a combination of scales and brigandine. I tore my cornea twice hyper focusing staying up too late and up too early researching something not well known outside Korea and translating various documents. looking at using wool to give the support and body. There’s fur trim, decorative lining, the Worbla armor elements and the under layer shirt. I have no idea how I’m going to wear that and not die of heat stroke. Any recommendations? My friend’s a great cosplayer, but they’re mostly focused on leather armor.

Gosh.... Life was lifin' and I ended up only having a bit under a month to build a full suit of armor from scratch for a con (mock-ups, weapon, helmet, undersuit, armor covering every part of the body, boot covers). If I didn't have my schedule laying out exactly when I had to finish each step, there is ZERO way I would have finished it on time. I had something similar happen with just a *single* arm this year, but no matter what I did, I couldn't make myself follow the schedule I laid out (even though it was *significantly* more manageable than the one i made for the suit of armor). The result and my mental state at the end of each project was night and day. I wish i could force myself to follow a schedule every time, it helped so MUCH. Here's hoping I can manhandle my brain into weaving it into the rest of my process if I just keep trying 😭😭

Something about the way the importance of externalizing your lists was said, had the "this person has ADHD" recognition bells just clanging. Not exactly surprising if you've been able to learn, and thrive in a theatrical work environment for years... But hearing that you identify as having an ADHD brain, was very much appreciated. Me thinking "uhhh... that sounds like a neurodivergent person's lived experience" isn't the same as knowing the individual has chosen to publicly share that label of themselves.

Very impressed with your Sansa costume! Cheers from another Endless Checklist Adder!

Since you mentioned distressing: do you have any tricks how to keep (heavily) distressed outfits easily washable? Whenever I'm handling stuff with stains and frayed seams and stuff like that, I get anxious about messing it up 😅

this is fantastic

A good episode would be adding visuals for the amateur of what parts are and what they are called. So, as a dude... I'm not fully aware of what a bustle is or what bustling does. While you realize you are teaching to people that dont know as much as you do, you should always assume we viewers don't know the terms you use. Basics of costume creation with you at the sewing machine would be nice. What are patterns and how to use them. Also, being inside a Joanne's and showing what is there and why this is fabric is good and this one bad could make for a good episode. Glad to have been introduced to your channel. My desiger wannabe daughter will enjoy your efforts.