More Pre-Tracon updating

My mind slipped several times during this. Tired. Still not really understanding what I wrote. Excuse me.

So the 'plan', if I ever had one, changed. Basically, I'm trying to finish Lyon again. However... though today was steady enough, I've been feeling worse again. Like... I got a stomach flu. Or something. I really have no idea.

Not to mention it's barely 22:13 and I had to give up for today. I didn't get much sleep last night, true, but it's not all that. Even the simple tasks seem to become horribly taxing. Sucks.

It's not like all hope has gone, but the con getting less and less likely for me.

So... yeah. I wanted to keep updating. Still do. Turned this into a cosplay blog somewhere along the way, but eh, there'll be other stuff too. When I have energy or learn to write properly. Or both, but that's a little optimistic.

Like I said, I'm horrribly tired. Just.... on the verge of collapsing. I was planning to stay up pretty late into the night working on the costume, at least until the Ellen DeGeneres show. It's something my mom found a while ago. I ended up watching it yesterday, since I felt a little wobbly trying to get off the couch. ;; Ehehe. Anyway. It's surprisingly good. Amusing, not even tasteless, a little weird but just so hilarious at times. I realy wanted to watch it, but... yeah. I don't know. Sleepy.

Uh. Didn't make much sense.

I don't want to jinx it, but...

Progress.

I didn't think I'd be updating this much. However, I'm tired, and I'm (= the costume is) making more progress than I thought I would be. I'm going to sleep soon, but I think I originally sat down to let my knees rest; they don't seem to like all the crouching/staying up late/sitting on the floor/running around so soon after not being used at all for a week. I also encountered some problems, involving

having to wash those to get the chalk off.

Anyway. I'm still far from done with it. I already made cuts and left out parts that weren't all that essential, but I still have a lot to sew. Even draw. That's not fun, it takes me ages to get patterns and stuff right. Not to mention I haven't even cut all the parts out yet, though that's more me Not Getting Patterns than being lazy.

Example.

... but yeah. Point is, the progress is there. And I didn't mention what the cosplay was, did I? Unfortunately for me, you can see it in the picture. So here we go: Lelouch vi Britannia, the 99th Emperor, planned.... ever since I met ttuw, pretty much.

As seen in Mutuality, the Code Geass artbook by CLAMP.

We even had most of the fabric ready a while ago, but then inspiration happened and we added other cosplays to the list. Since the deadline for this was Tracon V, the other cosplays came first. Not to mention finding that golden fabric was near impossible. And it doesn't even fit 100% either. Guh. Well, could be worse.

Still, I'm off to bed for now. I might babble a little more about this cosplay later on, but now... no time. So, good night~

"Wait...."

"... did that self-made pattern just actually work?!"

Apparently, I should only be allowed to make costumes while deprived of sleep. I just whipped up a whole (first experimental version of a) shirt on the first try. That just doesn't happen to me. .__.;; I mean... really? No adjustments at all?

Not to mention sawing a straight line is just so much easier while only half awake.

Earlier today I had to announce I couldn't make a costume I had planned to make for a very, very long time. Due to lack of time. Not that I'd give up on it, no way. I just happened to get another load of bad luck right after the first failure: I got sick. Again. In the middle of June. That doesn't happen to me either.

It was just some flu going around, but I was bedridden for a whole week. I slept through the days and nights, 13-16 hours minimum. When I was awake, I could barely hold myself together long enough to get a meal - as long as I didn't have to lift a finger to get it. So I slept. And sneezed. And coughed. A lot.

I'm still not completely healthy, but eh... what can you do. I decided I had to do something when I first slept 'til dinner. OTL;; Besides, I'm feeling a lot better.

Anyway... back to where I started, the costume. I was kind of going to do what I usually do; not deal with it and lie around being all depressed. Then... things happened, and I got into a 'eff you too, world' mood and started working on it anyway. I still can't believe I can just finish it flawlessly, but I had half the mood from making the pants already. So why not. I'll just have to see how I feel about it tomorrow... or the day after. I'll need to decide for good soon enough.

That's about it for now, I guess. I know I wouldn't be doing these things if it wasn't for you all, so... I love you. ♥ Never forget that. Even if I start sulking again.

Dear room....

... please stop eating my stuff. Seriously. I like how you return them to me eventually, but I need that zipper now. =__=;;

(Most of you probably got here through this.)

Erm, yeah. So I'm going to be at Desucon this weekend. I'm far from done with my cosplay, and I don't plan on sleeping tonight. I'm not actually taking a break now either, my hands just really needed to rest: I've done things I don't usually do, and apparently, I only have around half a day until I lose the strength they have left now. OTL;;;;; Those seams really fought back...

Said mess.

Speaking of fighting, that's how I think of this cosplay now: daily schedule includes fights(sewing, cutting, pinning), checkpoints(meals, sleep), minigames(cooking, this) and minibosses(wig, sword). Seeing as I can't spare a moment to the actual game... yeah, I suppose this makes up for it somehow. XD;;

I think I may have to add shoes as a miniboss.

(I also got another two additions to the list of 'silly things you do for cosplay'. One is "dragging out dad's pipe cleaners and making rope out of the sticks of 15cm". The other, "sitting on a piece of plastic while trying to heat it with mom's old blowdryer".)

As I said, fluff and pipecleaner.

Now, back to work? Sorry for the messiness of this whole... thing. Might update when I have more time~

Oh, and the other topics: I promise to get back to them sometime.