It's you, you're the star now
My grouchy old man
[Kiss]
Oh hello friends, it's me, Ginny Di, cosplayer, Youtuber, tabletop gaming geek
I thought I would reintroduce myself
in case you didn't recognize me without my signature blue locks
For the last few years I have been going green in the Fall and Winter
solely for seasonal color scheme reasons
Right now, these are the leaves on the top of the pumpkin
Anyway, it's Halloween season which means it's time for spooky stuff
And what is spookier than a 10 foot by 10 foot cube of carnivorous ooze?
The gelatinous cube is arguably one of the most iconic monsters in the world of D&D
And full disclosure, making a gelatinous cube costume was not my idea
There is a person on Twitter who, a few months ago,
began replying to all of my tweets suggesting that I cosplay a gelatinous cube
I have no idea what inspired this
I don't know who this person is, like they have changed their display picture
and their username and all of that to match their mission
I think they wanted like an actual cube
But the more that I thought about the idea,
the more I fell in love with the idea of like a gelatinous cube themed party dress
So I hope this is still satisfying to them
Accept me cube person!
They stopped tweeting at me in early September, so I hope that they're okay
In order to really nail down my concept for this dress, I went ahead and put together a sketch
Overall, it's a pretty simple design
I wanted a big full skirt to give me plenty of room to put
in skeletons and bones and little items
And then I wanted puff sleeves for the same reason
Because a puff sleeve has a lot of space in it to hide little props
And of course my newly greened hair will make a great match for this,
so I won't even have to wear a wig
I also haven't done like a sewing build log on this channel in a really long time
So hopefully you enjoy it?!
And uh, let's dive into this gelatinous cube
Sounds dangerous
Oh my gosh, you know what makes me hungry?
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Oh no!
This was supposed to be the part where I had cute little gelatinous cube jellos
Absolute carnage
The cube has been defeated 450xp for everyone
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This is so depressing
I went through two packets of Jell-o for this, and I don't even like Jell-o
So I had already gotten started on this costume before I decided to document it,
but I hadn't gotten far
Gelatinous cubes are, of course, semi-transparent but I must remain decent
I started by patterning a quick sheath dress just based on another dress that I have
And I created just a muslin underdress
with a zipper up the back to serve as a base for the dress
By the way, if you want to know how to pattern something
based on existing clothing out of your closet
I have a video all about that and I will put it into the cards
Okay, I'm going to start by making a bunch of tiny little items to
go inside of the layers of the dress
So I'm gonna make some little weapons, hopefully a little chest with some jewels in it and stuff
We'll see, we'll see what I'm capable of constructing
Okay, so I've finished all the pieces that are gonna go inside the dress
I made a bunch of tiny little weapon props
Look at these baby arrows!
This was a lot of fun, maybe I should just have a dollhouse instead of doing cosplay
My little spear!
Tiny keys on a tiny key ring
I also bought a bunch of little bones and little skulls
And one entire skeleton that I'll probably break up and use in pieces
Fully poseable, what a waste
So yeah I guess the next step is to start piecing together the actual dress, don't you think?
So my plan is to make the entire dress lined with itself,
and then I will attach that to the sheath base
That'll give me two layers of the green vinyl to put the little props in between
Basically I'm gonna assemble a dress but I have to affix these
to the lining layer first before it is assembled
I've made like a lot of circle skirts, and a lot of puff sleeves, and a lot of basic bodices
So I don't imagine the patterning of this dress being a problem
I think probably the biggest concern would
just be that I'm not used to working with vinyl like this
It's just a strange material, you know, it's plastic
It arrived coated in powder to just make sure it doesn't stick to itself
I'll have to wipe all of that down before I finalize any seams
I also have a non-stick foot for my machine that I think will make a big difference
Let's get to sewing!
Hello! Welcome to day two!
The scariest part about yesterday was just not knowing if my concept was gonna actually work
I've never worked with material like this before
And I didn't know if my little props were gonna look good
through the layers or suspended there or if the whole skirt was gonna hang right
I had a lot of concerns
But in the end, I'm actually really happy with how it looks
The skirt took basically all day
But a huge chunk of that was just getting all of the little inclusions sewn down to the base layer
Because I hand sewed all of them
I was originally gonna glue them and Josh was like
"Does that seem like it will be secure enough? Because
it would suck if you sewed it all up and then they started falling off"
And I was like "You're right! but that means like three more hours of work"
So I'm sewing it all on now, which I think is the right move
Although in terms of longevity I'm not sure how long this dress is gonna last
because some of the bones I've sewn in here are candy
But they're like hard candy
That shit doesn't expire
Anyway, today should be pretty straightforward
because I'm gonna use the same bodice pattern that I used to sew the sheath dress underneath
so I don't have to pattern anything
I'm just gonna make the bodice and a little peter pan collar
and some puff sleeves
All things that I've made before
I mean I don't want to jinx myself
But I just I think it should be pretty straightforward
Anyway lots to do, lots more hand sewing to go
So I guess I'm gonna get started on that
Okay, I've got all the pieces sewn onto the bodice, much quicker than the skirt, thankfully
Now I'm just going to take my second layer
And I'm going to tack it over top of this one
so that I can then apply the peter pan collar and the puff sleeves
Okay I'm at about the point where I think it would be best
to attach all of the green stuff to the sheath dress underneath
So I'll sew this waist seam first
And then I will attach all of it to the sheath dress
So that way there's already a zipper installed in the sheath dress
So I won't have to install a zipper into this vinyl
But honestly this is going really well so far
It's only, it's not even two o'clock yet
So I think I'll be able to get this dress done today
Overall, the fabric is definitely unwieldy
It can be difficult to manipulate around the sewing machine
And really fiddly spots like the armholes are more difficult
In fact I'm a little bit worried about getting the sleeves on
I guess worst case scenario I would sew them on by hand
But that would be a pretty bad case
Plus the presence of like long solid things like bones in the garments
have made them, at times, difficult to turn inside out or shape around the sewing machine
But I've figured it out so far
So hopefully I'll continue to be able to figure it out through the end
It's starting to get to the point where it's a huge pain to get it onto the dress form
so it's not really on right now
I just got the peter pan collar on
I have affixed the vinyl to the sheath dress so it's structurally ready
All that's left now for the dress is the puff sleeves
I'm going to use the puff sleeve pattern from Simplicity 9006
I used this pattern for my Nurse Joy dress so I've already used it,
I know it fits me well, I know that it's easy
I don't think it's crazy to expect to be done by maybe 6
Which would leave me plenty of time to get it all on and shoot it tonight!
Just a quick update, my estimate that I would be done with everything by 6, not accurate
It is 6:30, I have cuffed one sleeve I'm about to
cuff the second then they will have to be added to the dress
But I am determined to put on this costume and shoot photos tonight
So if that has to happen at 10 pm so be it
Okay, I have the sleeves pinned in and now I'm going to sew them in
I think this is the hardest part of the entire dress and it is also the last step
Okay, everything is done
I'm going to attempt a 50's-esque style on my hair
and do some makeup
and worm my way into this creaking completely unstretchable dress
and then I'll show you what we made together
I sewed for 11 hours today
Too many!
Easily the squeakiest dress I've ever worn
It's a little hard to get on
I think I need to add some kind of like binding inside the sleeve
Because right now the seam around the sleeve is just like really chafing the arm
And yes, pretty sweaty
But I'm really happy with how it looks
It is super duper cute
By the way if you like this Gelatinous Cutie she's gonna be the centerfold poster in my 2021 pinup calendar
which is... drumroll please...
Tabletop gaming themed!
[Sneezes] Excuse me
Pre-orders will be live on November 1st, if you want to make sure that you don't miss it
You can sign up to be emailed when they go live
I will put the link in the description to sign up for the email list
And of course I'll release a video to announce it also
If you're not familiar with my annual pin-up calendars
It's just a cute little wall calendar featuring 50's style cosplay pin-up photos
I'm glad that's done
I will see you next week for my second POV role playing character builder
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I'm gonna go to sleep now