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Halo is pretty much the only FPS game I have any interest in, LOL. I'm honestly pretty terrible at it, but I'm such a sucker for anything with a cute science fiction setting... I watched Halo Homecoming and agreed to make Daisy to match my friend's armored version of her, since I liked the character a lot. There was absolutely no chance of finding the fabric I needed for the costume locally, so I ordered a ton of swatches from spandexworld. In the end, I selected a nice matte milliskin fabric for the red portion of the bodysuit. For the yellow stripes, I had leftover yellow fabric from the cheap online knit I bought to make prototype reika dresses out of, so I already had that on hand. I forgot to order some white milliskin along with the red, so I used some of the 4-way white cotton spandex I had around from joann's. The bodysuit was quite interesting to pattern, because I had never made a bodysuit before. D: At first glance the design was very simple, but as I studied it further and actually got into the process of making it I realized it was a lot more difficult than I was expecting. I ended up splicing 3 different kwik sew and green pepper bodysuit patterns together in order to get the features I needed or wanted, since I was quite determined not to have any front seams or side seams on my finished piece. I also couldn't find any undergarments that wouldn't show through my spandex, so I built a camisole into the bodysuit to ensure I would have smooth lines. this was probably one of the more difficult parts of the costume... the bodysuit is one layer in most places, but the white is 2 layers, and the part where it is a camisole has the outer layer, and then 2 additional layers of spandex lining it. The purple patch and yellow decals are foamies. The waist wrap thing started out life as latch hook canvas and 1/2 inch green upholstery foam. (my original thought was to use wonderflex, then I realized that latch hook canvas would serve the same purpose, and for about $45 less per yard, haha) I made a fabric template to establish how much of a curve there needed to be to fit my waist, then cut the shape out of latch hook canvas. since the sheets didn't come large enough to cut the wrap in one piece, I overlapped the ends in the back and sewed it together with my sewing machine. Then I traced and cut out two layers of green upholstery foam, and securely glued each layer on to the latch hook canvas. The latch hook canvas provides a flexible but sturdy base, and the foam provides a smooth edge and helps bulk it out to the appropriate size. Then I covered the whole thing in fabric....the black fabric I used to cover the hip blobs and make the arm cuffs/bootcuffs is the same 4-way stretch 95/5 cotton spandex as the white fabric. Then I sewed buttons to the front parts and made a quick foamie and latchook strap that I covered in fabric for the thin part that reaches across the front. The rings on the side are large grommets from the home dec section at joann's, painted black (since I had some silver ones laying around already for a different robot girl) and glued on. The wig is a short full-curl wig from cyperous. The shoes are my old tales of the abyss luke shoes that I hastily covered (in the same white stretch fabric as the shoulders) at 6 AM thursday morning. (The bootcovers deeeefinitely need re-done at some point.) The black dots are tiny bits of foamies. Now that I've done the process once, I'm fairly confident in my ability to do a crisp rendition of it on my second attempt, however. The black cuffs on the boots are foamie strips covered with matching black fabric from the rest of the pieces. They close in the back with velcro.

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