Hello! I’m Sammy, aka LeafninCosplay, and this is my leaf pile, a collection of tutorials and helpful advice that can get you started with sewing and crafting or give you ideas for techniques. Everything in this blog can be done in minimal space. My workshop is technically the corner of my living room in a 900sqft apartment I share with my roommate. You don’t need a giant workshop or massive house to cosplay. You can craft and create cosplay in spaces as small as a dorm room!
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Floating straps look really cool, but the problem is they float and real life doesn’t always work that way. You could feasibly attempt to wrap yourself in them, but 5 minutes into the con, they’re likely falling down already. So like with most things in cosplay, you fake it. I’ve encountered floating straps before, but…
Sometimes you have a cosplay or a project that involves long thin straps. You don’t want your raw edges showing on the final work, and pushing the fabric out through the opening is incredibly tedious and time-consuming. I definitely drove myself crazy just at the thought of turning 45″ long straps inside out by shoving…
Defying gravity is fun, and in our journey to make a suspended skirt, we have finally reached the point of defiance. It’s time to make that skirt float outwards in full fluffy skirt form. With the foundation and structure from previous tutorials in this series, we’ve gone from creating the support structure to adding the…
Defying gravity is quite the feat. It takes a whole support structure that works underneath it, and last week, we made the base structure. This week, let’s talk about what you see on the outside: the skirt and how to make it as big and bouncy as possible. The skirt is where the bulk of…
The trouble with anime and game physics is that costumes sometimes forget gravity exists. The challenge as a cosplayer is to figure out how to make a gravity-defying costume while still (unfortunately) adhering to the laws of physics. When my sister wanted to cosplay May from Pokemon ORAS, I found myself questioning how to suspend…
I love to use plushes in cosplay as props, and I am an avid collector of Pokemon plushes. And when I see a deflated plush on eBay asking for a good home or one a little less full at the thrift store, sometimes I cannot resist restoring it. My most recent project was restoring a…
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