Helpful Tips And Facts: The 5 Most Important Keys To Cosplay: Knowing Your Fabrics

Since you now know your color palette, it's time to know about your different type of fabrics. This is the second most important key to cosplaying. When creating the cosplay of your choice, you need to know what fabrics will be appropriate.

Tip & Fact:
If by any chance you're a total newbie (a new person starting), then practice on some scrap fabric. Cotton fabric is the most simple and easy fabric to ever work with. This fabric is perfect for any new cosplayers.

Tip & Fact:
For complete beginners to cosplay, practice on simple patterns and make regular clothes first before you try doing an actual cosplay. Now, if you picked an anime character's costume that is something relatively simple, then go for it and try. A great example would to make either a pair of sleep pants or easy shorts from cotton.

Tip & Fact:
As you, me, and everybody knows that all fabrics are different. You got your furs, polyester, leather, cotton, stretch, and many many others. Now, when you sew, each fabric has to have a special sewing needle size. The normal size needle is a 12 to 14 for easy fabric like cotton, mixed cotton, and stretch fabrics. The 16 to 18 size needle is mainly for very hard fabrics like denium.

For example, if you would like to be some sort of warrior type anime character and they are wearing armor, then leather would be good to go with. If you don't switch your needles for the appropriate fabrics, then THEY WILL BREAK!!!!!!

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Some things are not meant to be sewn on the machine. If by any chance that you have a similar project with cosplaying, then try finding someone that knows cosplay really well to help you with the fabric.

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Now, many anime characters, if not all, have some sort of prop. Whether it's sewing related or not, make sure that you know someone that can either help you create your prop or make it for you if you're totally new to prop making.

For the non-sewing props, make sure you know someone that knows the ropes of cosplay is there with you in the process of creating your prop. All props are different in shapes, sizes, materials, and also what tools you use, so please be careful if you're using tools that are dangerous.

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NEVER FORCE THE MACHINE IF THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG!!!!! Always check to see what the problem is or you'll break the sewing machine for good. If it's jammed in some way, then cutting or pulling the tread a little from the bottom will pretty much cover it. In order to prevent any more jams or mishaps, make sure that you're threading the machine correctly and make sure that everything is clear before you start back sewing.

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When sewing, it's also some what important about the thickness of the tread that's going on the fabric. If it's too light (like a thread for cotton fabric) on a somewhat hard type of fabric like denium, then it may appear to be loose. It'll stay, but it will appear loose.

So, be sure to know the thickness of the tread as well before you sew. Like, a thread that is meant for easy, lightweight fabrics like cotton is only used for that type.


Anyway, this should help you on fabrics and other important tips and facts.