Just recently I bumped into a huge weakness of the mock-up: you do not wear them all day. If you sew garments, at some point or another you will come across the advice to always make a mock-up. Also called a muslin, calico, or toile, it’s a test version of the garment that lets you fine tune […]

There is something just a little bit insane about cosplay¹.  We—the fans—look at something that usually exists only in a 2D world and decide “I am going to replicate that.  In my spare time.  On a budget.  And I am going to make it awesome.”  Crazy, right? Add to that the fact that many of us—probably most […]