Getting a start.

Yesterday I took my reference book and the youngest child to my local Joann fabric store. Came home after spending a couple hundred with at least half the fabric I need.

On the upper left is Sabine pants, lower left her shirt. Center is for Hera pants and Ezra jumpsuit. Right is agent Kallus. I didn't find anything for Kanan shirt and will likely use stash material for Chopper. Bad panda went and bought fabric before looking through the stash because I couldn't access my fabric in the kids room due to their mess!

Today I updated my Cosplanner account which I have been using for this project. I have found one thing I do not like about the way Cosplanner keeps track of how much you spend on a project, if you are making an item, there is no place to put the cost of supplies, so I added in fabric separately.

I have also decided on which season each character will be from. Kanan is 3/4, Hera and Ezra as well. While Sabine is season 2 as I like the long sleeves, hair and armour from that season best.

I am still on the hunt for patterns, Simplicity was on sale this weekend but the few I found close were no in the drawers. I am now tracking down pdfs. It also hurts that my boys are in the awkward stage at 10/12 between boys and men's, not like there are many patterns anyways for them. I am thinking of making these outfits as wearable as possible for mundane as well. Deciding if Sabine shirt should be tight fitting like dancewear or just a knit shirt, she is 8 after all.

Chose your character, and look

Every year I try to get my family to do a group costume. I suggested classic Batman, no dice. Two years ago I got 3 of the 4 kids to do original Star Trek, which they then were able to wear again the next year.

My first though was to have the family as such

Husband - Kanan Jarrus 

Myself - Hera

Son #1 - Zeb

Son #2 - Ezra

Daughter #1 - Sabine

Daughter #2 - Chopper

But then Son #1 decided he wanted to be Agent Kelly's, and he does resemble that character more than Zeb in both physic and personality. So that leaves me with a decision, do I keep Daughter #2, the 3-year old, as Chopper, or change her to Zeb and make a plush droid? Zeb is by far the most complicated character to costume, and my smallest human does have a personality more like chopper.

Once we decide on our characters we then have to  choose their looks, some like Sabine change often over the course of the series.

We have decided to do the blind Jedi Kanan, as I have never seen my husband without a moustache, and we met 20 plus years ago in junior high school over Star Wars. 

This puts us in season 3 to 4. Next question is do we stick, as a family, to these two seasons or go all over the series?

A paper Blurg

While I get do do the sewing of our costumes, my husband is in charge of the weapons.

First one finished is Hera's Blurg 1120 which he made from cardstock and cardboard, smoothed out any roughness with paperclay and then painted with his airbrush.  I believe he made the pattern himself in CAD. His first attempt at the Blurg was made while we watched season 4 of Rebels last week, it was rough and oversized, so we turned to CAD and made this beauty.

He scaled it to fit my hand as shown in the link above.

Above my Blurg is a DL 44 "Greedo killer" in progress. That one is a papercraft kit from  Uhu Found here

More pictures for fun.

A new project

Hello old blog,
My personal life has changed in the intervening years, new child, new career, new city, but my passion for sewing is still strong.
We are gearing up for Halloween 2018 here and I felt it would be a good  blog topic. My family is going to be the crew of the Ghost from Star Wars Rebels

The husband will be Kanan Jarrus, l will be Hera Syndulla, son #2 will be Ezra Bridger, daughter #1 will be Sabine Wren, and as of today the characters of son #1 and daughter #2 are undecided. Since I now work full time, our costumes will be a mix of bought and made, the husband is on board for making weapons and armour.

Yesterday I picked up this Book to help with the planing though it only  covers season 1. (I have yet to watch season 4.)