21st January 2010: Complete. Bought my whisk. Costume is done and dusted.
8th January 2010: Hurry hurry! I'm officially going to Midlands Expo and staying with my friend Emily so I need to get off my bum and get Suu finished!
I need to buy some more material for the hat, collar and to make my clover amulet. I may buy a whisk to edit. Or I might just wait until Kitacon!
In the mean time I've bought my wig from professional only and I plan to get the last bits of sewing done this weekend!
1st January 2010: Pantaloons? Watching Shugo Chara on Crunchyroll I watched the ending sequence and noticed something... Suu... wears... pantaloons/bloomers under her dress.
How cute is that? They're like, pale green. So I'm going to get some material tomorrow during my lunch break and get those started over the next week. I need to get back into the sewing swing of things so I can get Suu finished and get my ass into gear for Falsetto, Jaina and Lilith.
21st December 2009: Dress and Pinafore progress Well, I hemmed my dress today. So the sleeves and skirt are all nicely hemmed. I am thinking of getting some lace to add around the bottom and the sleeves to mimic the scalloped shape... but I'll think about it.
The apron is also hemmed, and now just needs a back bow, and the two additional side pieces to tie it together at the back!
I did a test run on my hat the other night, which I have figured out. I just need to make it bigger to fit around my head plus wig! But that shouldn't be too problematic. All-in-all, well on the way to completion.
9th December 2009: Pinafore Well, about hour or so and we have what is starting to look like a pinafore. Though I'm thinking I shouldn't have gathered it and just left is as two long strips, so it didn't have the gaps up the side of the apron section. Its not meant to so I'll likely get some more poly cotton to close up the gaps.
I need to do a waist band and make a large, very obvious bow. Which I'll probably do using my Sailor fuku bow technique, or something similar.
Anyway - that'll be tomorrow or over the weekend.
9th December 2009: Dress done Well the dress is finished. Took about 3 hours in total. Has a zip up the back so I can actually get it on and off. Its still a little loose at the back, so I think I'll do some darts at the back so it fits a bit better and isn't so baggy.
I'm likely to so a tulle skirt to puff out the underneath as my hoop skirt is a bit longer than my dress. We'll see.
I'm now working on the apron.
7th December 2009: Dress Start Started the dress today. The pattern I used is a Dorothy pattern from the Wizard of Oz, so has required a lot of gathering of the skirt into the top part of the dress.
But its gathered, and needs sewing into place. It actually puffs out a fair bit, so I may not need to use my hoop skirt.
Anyway - will hopefully get that sewn tomorrow, along with the zip sewn in the back. Then I'll get started on the apron. This costume shouldn't be too difficult, I hope.
21st November 2009: Material Bought my material today. 4 metres of pea gren poly cotton for the dress.
And 2 metres of lemon yellow poly for the apron and the hat (its YELLOW DAMMIT) not white.
Anyhow. I've ordered a McCalls pattern which has a night neckline, puffy sleeves and apron. Its from the costume section. I have to wait for it to come in as they didn't have it in adult sizes. Not too bad though.
perfectly_purple - 21st November 2009 OMG! She's so sweet I think I got a cavity just from looking at the pictures! You're gonna look uber cute in this! ^_^
Limegreenjelly - 21st November 2009 Shes one cool guardian good luck. This will look adorable :)
Anonymous - 8th December 2009
Aww, how cute!
You'll look so adorable in this and I look forward to seeing it :-)
But I'm not going to Kitacon so please say you'll be wearing Suu another time?
Debbie Ella - 8th December 2009 Sooo cuuute. :D
Solaria - 9th December 2009 Loving the dress so far 8D
Suzunerd - 9th December 2009 ooo can;t wait til this is complete XD
Dusttee - 9th December 2009 The dress looks really good so far~ Can't wait to see this finished
angel aiko - 9th December 2009 CUTE :3
GunstarVixen - 10th December 2009 awwww so cute!!
Nocturnal Blossom - 10th December 2009 You = RIDICULOUSLY CUTE!
Mungojerrie - 10th December 2009 You look really cute in this! :) Can't wait to see the rest.
Sephirayne - 21st December 2009 Awww, so cute. Looking fab so far.
Limegreenjelly - 16th January 2010 Looking gorgeous and cuteeee, progress is coming along really well :)
Enchanting_ELK - 22nd January 2010
I FOUND A SUU!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, WE ARE HANGING OUT ON THE DAY. FOR DEF XD
Cuz i ish Amu-chan ;D
Hm, i think i'm gunna have too many people following me around XD
OH WELLZ, MORE FUN!
Anonymous - 22nd February 2010
You were Suu cute at Midlands!
Fabulous to see you as always x
Sephirayne - 22nd February 2010 You were so cute and lovely at Midlands expo. Great to see this in person and to see you hun. *hugs*
Mungojerrie - 22nd February 2010 You looked adorable as Suu! This costume really suited you, you looked brilliant! It was great seeing you again at Midlands :)
MadameLapin - 22nd February 2010 Oh hi! It's the girl with pink hair from Midlands ^^ You looked really adorable! It was lovely to meet you therre <3
Luminescence - 23rd February 2010 You were so cuuuuute <3
Ikkaku-kun - 25th February 2010 Cute as =3
Uni - 25th February 2010 You look so amazingly cute!!!! *snuggles*
Wildeth - 25th February 2010 this is too cute, i love it! <3
Amy-Lou - 25th February 2010 My goodness, you are so cute! Really neat costume too.
Adamoluna - 25th February 2010
wut O.o you look REALLY cute as a blondie.
Costume looks so huggable XD
Limegreenjelly - 25th February 2010 It was nice to see you ^^ you looked great as Suu
angel aiko - 25th February 2010 i want to place you in my pocket :3
Kacela - 25th February 2010 You look really cute ^^ Adorable!
MoonLily - 25th February 2010 Blonde hair really suits you :O ^^
Zelda - 25th February 2010 AWWW ^^ you look so adorable ^^.
Anonymous - 25th February 2010 Nice job. I love the hat, it looked perfect on you. The photos really show off the costume well.
nanahara - 25th February 2010 OMG you look so cute and adorable XD. Very well done
Anonymous - 25th February 2010 Great photos - LOVE the one in particular with the cat in your arms ... you look so pretty and happy :-)
Leonie Heartilly - 26th February 2010 Naww that wig looks adorable on you =)
Lurida - 27th February 2010 Hey Sil, you looked absolutely cuddly when I saw you at Expo. It was nice meeting you again, and atleast this time you didn't have to run around to try and find tape because I broke my cosplay prop before the Masqurade. I look forward to seeing you at the next con. <3
Anonymous - 27th February 2010 Awww i hardly see anybody with a shugo chara outfit on looks amazing so cute :)
Hexi - 8th March 2010 Awww! Suu! totally love it! :D
Sephirayne - 20th March 2010 Love the photos. You looks so adorable.
BlusterSquall - 20th March 2010 Heeehee! Thanks~ This is such a fun costume to ear! So comfy, and I get to be so girly and silly in it. XD (And pink cooking utensils! XD)