Trying to find a specific post in this pile of leaves? Search letting you down? No worries, I’ve got you covered. Here is the master list of the tutorials and advice posts I’ve written, sorted by categories.
Getting started
Sewing Machine 101
- Hand and foot positions for your sewing machine
- Start sewing with the straight stitch
- Mastering your sewing machine
Patterns 101
- How to read the pattern envelope
- Interpreting fabric requirements on a pattern envelope
- How to use the pattern piece guide in pattern instructions
Accents
Bits and bobs for decoration
- Adding gradients to tassels with alcohol markers
- Coin shapes made out of Worbla (and how to chain them)
- Dyeing plastic ornaments with food coloring
- Make your own tassels!
- Resin-free glitter gems
Accessories
Bring your cosplay to life with cool accessories
Gloves and armbands
Jewelry
- Beaded garlands for jewelry
- Plastic tubing for jewelry and accessories
- Wrap-around ear cuffs with Worbla
Shoes
Budget-friendly Cosplay
Cosplay on a dime that doesn’t look cheap
- Adding gradients to tassels with alcohol markers
- Beaded garlands for jewelry
- Dyeing plastic ornaments with food coloring
- Fluffy idol petticoat on a budget
- Make your own tassels!
- Modifying plastic festival masks
- Plastic tubing for jewelry and accessories
- Resin-free glitter gems
- Scalloped trim out of satin ribbon
- Sewing bead chains to fabric
- Stripes and details with satin ribbon
Character tutorials
Character-specific techniques and tricks
- Final Fantasy XIV: Cutouts with Ryne
- Fire Emblem Heroes: Floating straps with Adrift Camilla
- NieR Automata: Segmented Worbla finger armor attached to gloves with Adam
- Pokemon ORAS: Colorful rainbow and gradient skirts with May
- Pokemon ORAS: May’s Gravity-defying skirt part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
- Super Mario Odyssey: Modifying plastic festival masks for Peach’s kimono
- Thunderbolt Fantasy: Fabric-covered Chinese topknot ornament with Lang
- Zelda: Puffiest of stand up collars with Master Kohga
Plush things
Plushies, plush props, and other plush things for cosplay or for fun
Props
Painting, detailing, techniques and construction
painting and detailing
- Painting weathered metal with a makeup wedge
- Making weathered wood out of EVA foam
- Making wood and branches out of EVA foam
Quick projects
When you need something done fast
Sewing & Textiles
Techniques, advice, and information
- Cutting chiffon and voile with a soldering iron
- Getting giant bows to stay up
- Turning long tubes of fabric right-side out the easy way
Cosplay sewing techniques
- Braided rope backpack straps
- Colorful rainbow and gradient skirts
- Decorative cutouts with Ryne
- Floating straps that move with you instead of trapping you
- Fluffy idol petticoat on a budget
- Gravity-defying skirts
- Puffiest of stand up collars with Master Kohga
- Winding wraps and bandage wraps that don’t move
Painting and Dyeing
- Making your own fabric spraypaint with acrylic paint
- Scribbling with Shiva Paintstiks
- Stenciling with Shiva Paintstiks
Tailoring
Trims
Worbla projects
Fun and cool things to do with Worbla
Leafnin Cosplay 