Hello everyone, I'm Ainlina and let's go for a new video.
Today I show you the making of my Aerith cosplay from FF7R
I made this cosplay during quarantine,
that's why I only chose fabrics I had.
In another time I would have choose other fabrics
I started with her pink dress.
I used the same pattern as the one I used for Zelda.
I drew the pattern on leftovers to try it before.
First I wanted to have a seam at the waist to make pleats for the skirt.
I cut my pattern and pinned it. I tried it and made it fit me.
After trying the pattern, I decided to not have a seam at the waist and make one long piece.
I did not had any pink fabric so I used 3 meters of white I had.
I dyed it with pink dylon dyeing.
I did not really liked the colour, it was too saturate for me.
So I tarnished it with tea.
I tried different type of tea, green or black.
I decided to use green tea because it looked less dirty than black tea.
I made a green tea bath and put my fabric in it.
I let it several hours in it.
Then I washed the fabric.
In the end I'm really happy with the pink I obtained with this method !
Onces it was dryed, I ironed the fabric to flatten it.
I folded the fabric in two and put my pattern on it.
I drew my pattern on the fabric.
I used a pen with ink that disappears when you heat it up.
But you have to be careful because it can damage some fabrics,
Plus it is said that if you put your fabric in a cold place, the ink reveals itself so be careful...
Then I pin the two layers of fabric
And I cut the fabric.
I pin all the pieces together
and I overlock it.
I like to sew 5mm away from the overlock but it's not necessary.
at this moment I thought I would not line the dress.
This is how the dress looked without lining.
I saw that my fabric was a bit transparent, that's why I decided to line the whole dress.
Since I didn't have any fabric left, I used parts of my old Vivi cosplay and pink some leftovers.
My lining is a patchwork of what I had in my closet.
I sewed everything together
Then I worked on her collar.
She has like biais and ribbons to decorate it.
Since I didn't have any pink ribbons, I had to make some with leftovers.
I took my Vivi's cape which was darker than Aerith's dress, and I cut long stripes.
Wide was ~7cm
I flatenned the stripes with my iron.
Then I put the dress + the lining on me.
I pinned the ribbons on the dress to see how I wanted it to be.
Then I redrew the neck line and pinned the ribbon.
I put the ribbon like biais.
I sewed everything together : the dress, the lining and the homemade biais.
Then I folded the biais and closed it on the lining with a hand stitch.
For the ribbons that are below the breast,
I just fixed it in the front, and then I lace it.
I make the knot in the back.
I used the same stripes as before.
This time, I didn't sew it like a biais.
I folded the stripes in two, sewed it (like a tube).
then I ironed it to flaten the seams.
and I turned the tube over.
and I ironed it again.
Like this you have a clean ribbon.
I sewed the ribbons just in the front of the dress.
For the armhole, I sewed some white biais to close the dress properly.
I noticed she had some white gathers at the bottom of the dress.
Unfortunately I didn't have light white fabric.
So I used an old dress I had and unstitched the bottom where there were gathers.
Then I pinned it on the right side of my dress.
Just note that I did't sewed the lining and the right side together at the bottom of my dress because I wanted it to be light. It's just fixed on the collar and armhole.
It prevents the dress from being to thick.
So I was saying : I sewed the gathers on the right side, without taking the lining in it.
I sewed with my sewing machine with a straight stitch.
Since I had some leftovers from my homemade ribbon, I decided to add it to the gathers.
I thought it was pretty/
I used a decorative stitch to fix it and white thread.
To have clean edges at the bottom of the dress and the lining,
I just overlocked it.
In her design, she also has like an inside belt (I don't know the word)
I sewed a ribbon inside the right side, alongside the waist.
I made 2 seams, 1cm aparts, taking the biais and the fabric.
It makes like a tube.
Inside this tube, I inserted some lace I had.
And I made two buttonhole in the front so I can actually put the lace in the tube !
Then to close the dress,
I made some buttonholes with my sewing machine.
I added some cute white buttons then.
Luckily, a friend sent me these button because I didn't have some and all the shops were close with the quarantine.
and finally the dress was over !
Then I made her jacket.
I bought a jacket months before the quarantine in a second hand shop.
It's a Zara jacket I got for 10€
I cut the sleeves just above the elbows.
I folded the lining and the jacket to have clean edges.
I sew with a visible stitch.
I tried to recreate the seams that were on the jacket originally.
Then I shortened the jacket.
Aerith has a really short jacket.
I had to unstitch all of the loops and the pockets.
I drew the line of the lenght I wanted.
For the pockets, I unstitched the zippers, and close properly the pocket so I don't have raw edged.
There will have the belt on it so the seams will be hidden afterwards.I just wanted it to be clean.
Once I cut the jacket, I closed it the same way I did with the sleeves.
Visible stitch closing the lining with the right side.
I also sewed the loops again.
I just used 2 of these for the sleeves.
On the sleeves she has like mini-belts.
ofc I did not have any leather or fake lather.
So I used some brown cotton
I used the same technic as the pink ribbon.
I just stuffed it with fake gold leather I had.
This way it's thicker and it looks more like a real belt.
I made a visible stitch with the sewing machine
I put some eyelids and buckles.
I sewed one loop to each sleeve.
I fixed the belt to the sleeves with the sewing machine at two different places.
I tried to fix it in an invisible way (under the loop for instance)
Then I decorated a bit the jacket.
I added some snap fastener to stripes on the shoulders.
And I also put snap fasterners on the collar.
I put 3 snap fasterners per stripe per shoulder, like her 3 stars.
Then I made her bracelets.
I modeled these on 3DSmax and printed it.
It's printed in ABS so we polished it with acetone.
After some sanding and undercoat
I painted with airbrush (gold, silver and bronze).
I tried to make a more realistic look by weathering them.
You can purchase these bracelets on my shop
The online shop is www.ainlina.com
For her wig, I followed Arda wigs' tutorial
It was a great tutorial so please go watch it.
I'm not really good with wigs so I cant really explain it to you.
My wig was not long enough so I had to put some wefts.
But really please check Arda's tutorial, it's great
and now the cosplay is done !
It was really hard for me to make because I did not have anything I needed and it was quarantine.
But it was also a great challenge.
I tried to adapt the design to what I got.
I'm not the type of girl to stock a lot of fabrics so sometimes I have to improvise.
It's really a good exercise.
And it allows to use old fabrics
I just didn't have a lot of choices ! xD
I'd love to remake the pink dress with a good fabric tho
I will see if I have time !
I hope you like the costume I made.
I made this cosplay on twitch if you wanna follow me there (but it's in french ...)
I'm also on instagram and twitter
I also have a kofi
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
