Part of the Pinky Pie street wardrobe is this wonderful fringed short jacket. It’s based on the Simplicity 8441 Men’s Cowboy Shirt pattern, which I’d altered and fit last summer for a pair of rainbow shirts. I could use my already altered (and transferred to quilters grid) pattern pieces so I knew it would fit.
Identity Disk, roughed out After a fair amount of banging away at it, I have a reasonable facsimile of the “Identity Disk” for Castor. Fortunately the Tron cosplay/prop community measured and shared the dimensions of the prop, unfortunately that was for 3D printing, and modeling it in 10mm EVA foam offered a few challenges. But,…
Next up is building Rocky’s body. He’s such a simple character design that I’m going for a very simple onesie style fursuit rather than one with sculpted padding. I’m using the Andrea Schewe Simplicity 2853 pattern for the starting point. I will, however be using a number of tricks (including Matrices’ technique for installing the…
Two Paws are Better Than One After the successful (but requiring lots of handwork to fix gaps in the seams) on the left paw, I set out to build the right paw a little more methodically. First I trimmed the batting layer just about 1/8″ in from the edges. Then I hand basted the batting…
This weekend has been some finishing work on the tail and hat, which has entailed an enormous quantity of handwork. Finishing the tail While the main assembly of the tail was complete, neither end had been stitched up yet. The tip of the tail had been left open to make it possible to insert the…
Modifying the neckline and lapels. The new closure works well, but the result still looked like a (cheap) tailcoat. After a bit of soul searching, I cut off the lapels and reseamed the edges to a smooth line, and trimmed the top of the “waistcoat” down to a square line (at the top of the…
Every equine character on My LIttle Pony has “cutie marks” on their flanks, and Pinky Pie is no exception. Her cutie mark is a trio of party balloons with contrasting strings, two blue and one yellow. When I did Rainbow Dash, I was able to purchase iron-on patches of his cloud-and-thunderbolt cutie mark, but I…
