{"id":4981,"date":"2013-10-25T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2013-10-25T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:30:25","slug":"using-those-cosplay-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/25\/using-those-cosplay-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"using those cosplay skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m under medical orders to take it easy, so I am, and that’s cool and all, but boring. So today I made a couple of cloth iPad slipcases. They’re easy and I’ve never made one before. Both of these are multi-layered fabric; the red one is denim on the outside, artificial suede on the inside; the Cutter one has three layers, suede, denim, and on one side…<\/p>\n

Okay, 10 years ago, the start of Medical Adventures was Anna’s bike accident wherein she broke her arm. They had to cut away her T-shirt and sweatshirt, and the T-shirt was particularly painful since it was one of her old Elfquest shirts, and a favourite. She said just to throw the cut-up remnants away, but I didn’t.<\/p>\n


Blood of Ten Chiefs guards Anna’s iPad<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Proof!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

The snap is small but metal and pretty easy to open and close; the band is sewn-edge like you’d do with a serger, but I don’t have a serger, so I faked it and applied some anti-fray glue. The art, of course, is rather old! But now it’s adhered against two layers of relatively stiff fabric, so should last a lot longer than it would’ve had it just stayed a T-shirt.<\/p>\n

I have a totally superstitious hope that this can be a coda on the other end of this, and what’s scheduled for next month can be the end of it for a long time. I have no rational reason to think this, of course; I’m just resorting to animism here. But at least it has some art in it.<\/p>\n

Also I made a minimalist one for Minion Paul; actually, I made it first. His first-gen iPad had a nice case, but Fred peed on it, and, well, finding first-generation iPad cases? Good luck. So I made him a slipcover case instead.<\/p>\n

I’d’ve put a patch on it, but he didn’t have one he really wanted attached.<\/p>\n


Slab of Red<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Pointy there! POINTY THERE!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

The only kind of trick to this one was wiring the rim. I was going to do kind of a drawstring thing but that’s kind of weird and lame, and this is kind of cool, and, let’s be honest, no more ineffective than those damned drawstrings.<\/p>\n


Spring wire! Stays straight, which is more than you can say for me.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Oh, and if you do anything like this and want to layer fabrics together so make thicker multi-layer fabrics to, say, strengthen old T-shirt fabric so it no longer feels like a T-shirt at all? This is the best steam-on\/iron-on fabric adhesive I’ve ever found. I will be using this again.<\/p>\n

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Honestly, nothing else I’ve used works nearly so easily or so well, and I’ve tried a bunch of different kinds. I wouldn’t go on about it this much except this is one of those solutions I looked for with real effort when I was more seriously into cosplay, and I’m really glad to have finally found one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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