NYAF report
Oct. 1st, 2009 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofthethreadSo, NYAF was last weekend. Hi to those of you I saw there. *waves to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
animeangel, animeangelblue, athena_chan, blackjackie999, blackmarth, dressdragn, haruhi_chan, hystericraider, ifuritaoni, lady_ava, loudnbothered, mostflogged, neo2469, neoangelwink, rare_dreamer, ryoko, sakuralenayuy, springstar, starlighthoney, thedreamerworld, twilitesea, waynekaa, wildhorseranma, winq, yeu*
Sorry if I seemed tired or distracted at the con. I was short on sleep plus fretting about masquerade things on Saturday. x_x My brother started putting up some of the photos he took. So far, I see mostflogged and starlighthoney plus ryoko with her new bear hat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotofong/sets/72157622367462313/
Last week was pretty crazy and tiring with trying to finish Ekaterina in time for the masquerade. I could have called it finished after Tuesday night but I decided I wanted to remake my black petticoat. The original seemed too stiff after I made the wool jacket and the pleats in the front hung oddly since I had to cut into the waist so much to make the hem even over the panniers. :-/
Wednesday, I went out and bought black wool to remake the skirt and spent a few hours showing haruhi_chan and her boyfriend around the fashion district. I’d met her at AnimeNext 2004 when we both had YGO cosplays but hadn’t seen her since then because she moved. It was a nice break from all the sewing!
Wednesday night and Thursday was spent remaking the skirt and working on documentation. I still had to sew after the skirt was done though because my brother wanted to cosplay this time and wanted me to make him a mask for a TF2 spy costume. It wasn’t very good since I have little experience sewing stretchy stuff plus it was navy fabric left over from my Count D peacock dress so it wasn’t super stretchy. It was past 2 AM when I finally went to bed. -_-
Woke up around 8 on Friday and continued on documentation and gathered the pieces of my Tamaki costume. Fortunately, my uncle agreed to drive me to the Javits so I was able to get the costume there relatively easily. Got to the con around 2 and changed. Saw part of the dating game and wandered around the dealer’s room. Didn’t really attempt to shop due to the huge dress so I mostly looked for people to chat with. Finally met waynekaa after missing him last NYAF.
Left around 6:30 and went home to have dinner and finish up my documentation for the next day. I ended up with 3 pages of notes and 6 of pictures, which is way more than I normally do since I wanted to show my underpinnings and some research. o_o;; By the time I finally got around to putting the whole costume on and practicing for the walk-on, it was nearly midnight. I kept stepping on my skirt and bumping into the sofa and felt so unprepared when I finally went to bed around 2AM. ._.
Packed up my stuff the next morning and my father dropped us off at the Javits around 11. Finished changing and walked around a bit before wandering off to practice near the special events hall. I think I managed to tie everything on better that morning so I wasn’t constantly stepping on my skirt anymore. (I had used period construction methods so the panniers and petticoat were on waistbands that tied.) Felt a bit more prepared and had my brother take some pictures before going to judging.
Went to rehearsal after judging and then got worried again because of the stage setup; I’d forgotten about the pillar and the runway and had planned for a regular rectangular stage. ._.;; So, while waiting, I ended up rearranging the walk-on to use the runway. Fortunately, it seemed to work out.
There was still time before lineup so I went to get some juice and snacks and that was when I lost my veil. I hadn’t tacked it to my hat since I planned to pull it off during the walk-on so it must have fallen off while I had the front lifted and draped over the hat. Fortunately, a little kid found it and I was able to make it back for lineup in time. I like how the costume came out but it certainly seemed to cause more than its share of stress and panic! -_-;
The masquerade walk-on went fine and I was glad I was second so I could just get it out of the way and then relax and enjoy the rest of the show. As mentioned last time, I got Marty Gear’s judge’s award. Congratulations to everyone else who also won stuff in the masquerade or hall contest. ^_^
For Sunday, I just pulled my old blue Count D robe out of the closet since it’s comfortable and carried around my phoenix prop. Was just too tired after all the late nights and two days of huge dresses to want to wear something more complicated. Finally took a better look around the dealer’s room and exchanged birthday gifts with neoangelwink. One of the dealers had diabolos and I bought one since I’m a Kaleido Star dork and thought it would be fun to try out. Went home around 5 and took a nap before going out with relatives for my parents’ 30th anniversary dinner.
Hopefully, I’ll have pics of Ekaterina plus some new Tamaki photos to post soon.
animeangel, animeangelblue, athena_chan, blackjackie999, blackmarth, dressdragn, haruhi_chan, hystericraider, ifuritaoni, lady_ava, loudnbothered, mostflogged, neo2469, neoangelwink, rare_dreamer, ryoko, sakuralenayuy, springstar, starlighthoney, thedreamerworld, twilitesea, waynekaa, wildhorseranma, winq, yeu*Sorry if I seemed tired or distracted at the con. I was short on sleep plus fretting about masquerade things on Saturday. x_x My brother started putting up some of the photos he took. So far, I see mostflogged and starlighthoney plus ryoko with her new bear hat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotofong/sets/72157622367462313/
Last week was pretty crazy and tiring with trying to finish Ekaterina in time for the masquerade. I could have called it finished after Tuesday night but I decided I wanted to remake my black petticoat. The original seemed too stiff after I made the wool jacket and the pleats in the front hung oddly since I had to cut into the waist so much to make the hem even over the panniers. :-/
Wednesday, I went out and bought black wool to remake the skirt and spent a few hours showing haruhi_chan and her boyfriend around the fashion district. I’d met her at AnimeNext 2004 when we both had YGO cosplays but hadn’t seen her since then because she moved. It was a nice break from all the sewing!
Wednesday night and Thursday was spent remaking the skirt and working on documentation. I still had to sew after the skirt was done though because my brother wanted to cosplay this time and wanted me to make him a mask for a TF2 spy costume. It wasn’t very good since I have little experience sewing stretchy stuff plus it was navy fabric left over from my Count D peacock dress so it wasn’t super stretchy. It was past 2 AM when I finally went to bed. -_-
Woke up around 8 on Friday and continued on documentation and gathered the pieces of my Tamaki costume. Fortunately, my uncle agreed to drive me to the Javits so I was able to get the costume there relatively easily. Got to the con around 2 and changed. Saw part of the dating game and wandered around the dealer’s room. Didn’t really attempt to shop due to the huge dress so I mostly looked for people to chat with. Finally met waynekaa after missing him last NYAF.
Left around 6:30 and went home to have dinner and finish up my documentation for the next day. I ended up with 3 pages of notes and 6 of pictures, which is way more than I normally do since I wanted to show my underpinnings and some research. o_o;; By the time I finally got around to putting the whole costume on and practicing for the walk-on, it was nearly midnight. I kept stepping on my skirt and bumping into the sofa and felt so unprepared when I finally went to bed around 2AM. ._.
Packed up my stuff the next morning and my father dropped us off at the Javits around 11. Finished changing and walked around a bit before wandering off to practice near the special events hall. I think I managed to tie everything on better that morning so I wasn’t constantly stepping on my skirt anymore. (I had used period construction methods so the panniers and petticoat were on waistbands that tied.) Felt a bit more prepared and had my brother take some pictures before going to judging.
Went to rehearsal after judging and then got worried again because of the stage setup; I’d forgotten about the pillar and the runway and had planned for a regular rectangular stage. ._.;; So, while waiting, I ended up rearranging the walk-on to use the runway. Fortunately, it seemed to work out.
There was still time before lineup so I went to get some juice and snacks and that was when I lost my veil. I hadn’t tacked it to my hat since I planned to pull it off during the walk-on so it must have fallen off while I had the front lifted and draped over the hat. Fortunately, a little kid found it and I was able to make it back for lineup in time. I like how the costume came out but it certainly seemed to cause more than its share of stress and panic! -_-;
The masquerade walk-on went fine and I was glad I was second so I could just get it out of the way and then relax and enjoy the rest of the show. As mentioned last time, I got Marty Gear’s judge’s award. Congratulations to everyone else who also won stuff in the masquerade or hall contest. ^_^
For Sunday, I just pulled my old blue Count D robe out of the closet since it’s comfortable and carried around my phoenix prop. Was just too tired after all the late nights and two days of huge dresses to want to wear something more complicated. Finally took a better look around the dealer’s room and exchanged birthday gifts with neoangelwink. One of the dealers had diabolos and I bought one since I’m a Kaleido Star dork and thought it would be fun to try out. Went home around 5 and took a nap before going out with relatives for my parents’ 30th anniversary dinner.
Hopefully, I’ll have pics of Ekaterina plus some new Tamaki photos to post soon.
