Sandshrew Gijinka Ears

Today I promised myself to do the ears for my Sandshrew (Pokémon) gijinka. I will debut the cosplay during Vinter Närcon. I must do the ears today since I need this week for other stuff like school crap and testing my circle lenses, and getting used to them before the con. I will write a journal about the loads of cosplay related things I have brought next time.

Now back to the Sandshrew gijinka:

For this cosplay I will only do the ears, since the gijinka design is kimono inspired and Valkoinen Samurai already have a kimono that works great for Sandshrew,  Yeah it´s the one he uses when he cosplays Isami Kondō from Hakuōki: Shinsengumi Kitan.

Here´s a picture of Sandshrew for those who don´t know this yellow cute monster:

It´s the ears that I´m going to do.

The progress started during daytime. I went to the attic to pick up a mustard yellow fabric, which we put away yesterday since we were cleaning the "fabric room". I took the fabric back inside, in other words. When I preperad the fabric on the kitchen table and when I had drawed the first ear example, mom walked by and noticed that I had done a small fault when placing the fabric. She fixed it right and went back to whatever she was doing, giving a not-so-nice comment to me...meh. Looked okay according to me how I placed it first, could be worser definitely, and there wasn´t a massive amount of fabric that was going to waste anyway. No, I don´t cut in the middle of the fabric, haha.

Sure it is the "Save as much fabric as possible! Thinking here even if we have over 9001 meter fabric in the attic, lol. She said before "It´s fine to do faults when we have so much fabric" and when you are about to fail rage mom suddenly appears...yeah such (maximum) trolling xD

I understand her though, fabric is expensive and I know that.

I have drawn the ear shape again on the fabric (now when it was correctly placed) and cutted it out afterwards, and I kept repeating the process until I had all the pieces for the ears. I cutted out smaller and bigger shapes of ears from white and interfacing black fabric. To make the ears sturdier, you know.

Black interfacing and mustard yellow ears shapes cut out.

All shapes cut out. I realized afterwards that I only need two of those white ones...

When I was done cutting and drawing I went to zig-zag them, piece by piece. Of course such unlucky sewer as I am, the sewing machine trolled and made a fugly stitch, directly from the start, but Valkoinen Samurai told me to just ignore it, he said its "normal". I CAN´T JUST IGNORE IT! IT`S SO FUGLY!

Just looking at it makes my stomach turn, yuck. Luckily it will not be visible in the end.

I told mom to look at it, she came and got it solved, it might have had something to do with the needle. I did restart the machine 2-3 times and checked the other things that could be wrong. Nothing changed the stitching. Mom zig-zagged two of the yellow mustard ear pieces to try the stitching when it was fixed. Oh well, the stitching looks better now so I can keep working with my mind at ease...I thought!

Do you like what you see? If you see the small troll here, then you should say "No".

Yeah, when I started with sewing the white fabric on top of the mustard yellow one, the darn white fabric wrinkled itself. Not once, not twice but three times! THREE FUCKING TIMES!! Now we speak of several wrinkles each time, and I had to rip the seams two times half around were the wrinkles was and after those both times I losed my temper and riped the whole white part off from were it was, to make sure NO MORE SEAM-RIPPING OR WRINKLES appears again. I couldn´t find the seam-ripper (searched for it)  so I had to roll with a needle and scissors instead. I do not recommend this to anyone until you really have no other choices, it takes freaking forever to do! I now bow down for the speed of the seam-ripper, and I´m serious. That thing is actually a beast!

After all the rage Valkoinen Samurai came to help me with it (Life Bottle!) and asked why I didn´t have the seam-ripper... well, I WOULD use it if I had it, it´s not like I choose a needle and scissors on my own will. Anyway, he sewed the white part in place on the first try (he sewed the other one as well, thanks bro) and I remain puzzled why I always get trolled...

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White parts sewed in place by Valkoinen Samurai.

Ironed afterwards by me.

All unnecessary amounts of interfacing fabric cut off.

There is only left to sew the ears together, but before we do that we changed the plans to fill each ear with cotton when mom found this little funny thing:

Yeah, it´s those plastic Halloween devil diadems. She happened to have one left.

When I sew the ears together, to get them actually look like ears, I just turn the right sides against each other (wrong sides up) and sew them together with just a straight stitching. Valkoinen Samurai arrives again this time with a chopstick to poke out the ears tops. It succeeds.

Ta dah!

Since I said above that I won´t fill them with cotton I will just place the ears on top of the devil horns and fasten them to the diadem by sewing the ears together from their bottom by hand. But before I get my hands on one of the ears, someone decided to have fun.

Bro, that´s not a shoe cover!! xD

There was no real problems by sewing them for hand, except that on the first ear (left one) I happened to leave too little open space for it at the bottom. So it derped and didn´t position itself correctly at the sides when you sewed in too much in. I didn´t repeat that mistake so the second ear looked like it should, I ripped the seams I did on the first one and did that one again. No faults this time, yes!

Finally done! Didn´t look all that bad in the end, heh.

Of course when you are done with something you have been working with, you have to take a photo with the finished "product" on yourself. So here´s my tired face with the right wig for the cosplay inclusively the new ears!

Open tired eyes = Derp. Therefore closed.

Thanks for watching..... I mean reading! Geez, I surely am tired now, so I´m outta here. Good night folks.