Lady Loki Cosplay: Part 1

Loki is one of my absolute favorite Marvel characters so I just had to cosplay as him. I have seen a lot of other Lady Loki dresses but none of them seemed like something I would wear so I decided to design my own!

I started out by sketching a design of the dress so I had a basic idea of what it would hopefully look like.

I then used a pattern for a bodice from another dress (Simplicity pattern 1415), traced it onto butcher paper, and made adjustments to it so it would look the way I wanted. I made sure to trace them in different colours so I could distinguish between the original and modified versions.

 

After cutting out the pattern, I traced it onto muslin because 1) I am relatively new at making my own patterns and 2) I don't have the fabric I want for the actual dress yet anyway. I also like muslin because I can pencil in the designs I want without worrying about it looking too bad.

 

For the front design I cut out long strips of fabric that, when folded in half, would be as wide as I want plus the seam allowance. I then basted the edges together. By the way, say hello to my green carpet of ugliness, I'm sure you'll become quite familiar with it by the end of this post.

 

This next part was pretty tricky. I cut the long strip into pieces so they were a bit larger than the lines I drew on my bodice (making sure to number them so I knew what piece went where). I sewed them on, overlapping them so that none of the seams were visible. I can't describe exactly how I did it, I just kind of followed the lines I made.

I hid the stitches underneath the strips themselves.

I had to be sure to sew from the top down because if I did it any other way, my pieces won't lay down like I would want them to. 

This is how it turned out when I was done, yeah, it may be ugly now, but it will look better soon.

I clipped off the extra fabric so it lined up with the base bodice. 

Then I stitched the sides down so they would lift up and expose their ugly undersides. You can easily seen my numbering here!

I rewarded my hard work with some Mountain Dew and You Tube videos.


It's time for the bodice side front!

I cut out the pieces from my pattern and then sketched a design for the the side collar. I'm not sure how much I like it, but it's only a muslin so I can always adjust for my final project!

I then sewed the assembled collars onto the side bodices. 

And sewed them to the front bodice. 

After that I cut out the back of the dress, made the darts and sewed them onto the front.

This was my initial template for my sleeves, but after basting them on and off about 15 times, I finally adjusted it to the exact shape I wanted.

Once again, I drew the little design in pencil and followed the same process as on the bodice. 

Then I sewed them in.

(Sorry about the really crappy pictures, they were taken on my phone and I am by no means a very good photographer.)

For the collar I sketched out a pattern like this, making sure the length was half as wide as the circumference of my neck hole.

I then cut out four of those pieces from my fabric. 

 I sewed two of them together and clipped the curves so it turned out like this:

After making two of those I sewed them along the neckline of my bodice. 

This is what it looked like when I finished: 

 And here I am looking fabulous sporting my messy hair and new bodice. As you can certainly tell I made plenty of mistakes but that's okay because this is only a muslin and now I know what adjustments I will have to make for the final project.

Here's the posts for the rest of the cosplay: 

Lady Loki Cosplay: Part 2

Lady Loki Cosplay: Part 3