Over the weekend I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts (Joann’s), in Ames and Ankeny, to look for the new “cosplay fabrics” by YaYa Han that were supposed to come out. Neither store had them, but the Ankeny store said I may find them in Clive, so since I work in Clive I’ll be looking after work and will post an update then. I originally wanted to see them because they were fabrics specifically for cosplayers and to look for fabrics for my 3 cosplays that I want to do this year. I’d been hearing a lot about how bad these fabrics were and about how over priced they are, and that YaYa turned into a sell out, which I really don’t want to believe cause the SYFY cosplay show is what got me the confidence to go ahead and try to make cosplay for myself. Being about to see that really professional cosplayers don’t always know everything and have to google or youtube tutorial stuff they don’t know just like I do really did give me the confidence to say “Hey, they do it just like you do. Get off your ass and get to work!” So I bought a crap ton of patterns and started making outfits for my sister first (mostly cause she’s adorable and I was making regular clothes for her anyway since she was a baby, it was like having my own dress up doll!).
Anyway while I was out, even though I didn’t find what I was looking for I still found some awesome fabric for the cosplay that I want to do.
Lady Thor


ok for this one I already know I’m just going to buy the black tank top or just use one I already have. There really is no reason for me to make one as they can easily and much more cheaply be bought for $5 or less, and are more likely to not fall apart while I’m wearing it. But the blue fabric (the middle top on the first image) that is going over the black tank top I think I found. It’s this fairly stretchy kinda spandexy (actually I think it is spandex fabric lolz) seems like it would be a really good choice since the tank top is kinda stretchy and since I have medium-large boobs, I’ll need the stretch. I’ll have to wait till I get another 50% off coupon and money till I can buy it, but I think this is a really good first step. I also really like the flow and it didn’t feel like it bunched a lot so I think a red of this fabric would do really well for the cape too.
SAO (Sword Art Online) Cosplay


ok for the coat I was thinking of a suede and I found this awesome apollstery fabric of blue suede and it’s perfect feeling, and I think it would work really well.
Steampunk

I think instead of trying to do a steampunk cosplay Elsa or trying to steampunk some other character that I’ll just make my own character. There are too many pretty fabrics to not make into a steampunk cosplay. So since I found and SUPER love this one I want to basically make a steampunk costume centered around this fabric.