To finish my Pandaren Monk cosplay, I began by laying out my finished pieces to get an idea of where I wanted to place things, and approximately how large they needed to be.
I found a glass in the cupboard that was the size that I wanted the knee pads to be, and I traced the glass onto a piece of grey felt with a black ball point pen.
When I had cut the circles, I took a large black marker and free handed the paw prints.
Once the black marker had dried, I took some brown embroidery floss and a large needle, and crudely attached the knee pads using large stitches.
To determine where I wanted the patches to be, I put the pants on, and used a piece of chalk to mark where my knees were and then placed each patch over the chalk dots, making sure that the patches were also centred on each pant leg.
To complete the vest closures, I traced the base of a liquid eve liner pot onto a piece of navy felt using a yellow metallic gel pen.
I drew the basic shape I wanted the arm shields to be on a piece of paper, then drew a slightly smaller version. I cut the larger size out first, and traced it twice onto grey felt using a black marker. I then cut the paper into the smaller size, and traced four smaller ones on to grey felt. I then traced six of the small shape onto navy felt using the yellow metallic gel pen (I couldn’t get a clear picture of the navy felt).
After I cut out the arm shield pieces, I laid them out and used E6000 epoxy to glue them in place.
I also used E6000 to glue the vest closures together, and to subsequently attach them to the vest. The thing I like most about E6000 is that it remains flexible even when it’s completely dry – making it awesome to use on anything you need to wear!
The last bit of my Pandaren cosplay that needed doing were my ears. I found a scarf I’d got at Primark ages ago, and it’s a wonderfully soft, kinda furry-esque texture to it, so I decided to sacrifice it for ears. I drew out a basic ear shape, pinned the ear pattern to the scarf, and cut out four pieces.
I couldn’t use Hodor to sew the ears, so I hand stitched the ears along the round edge, turned the ears inside out, stuffed them, and closed each ear along the flat bottom edge.
I then sewed each ear to the wig by hand. I sewed the flat bottom edge of each ear to the horizontal wefts in the wig. I wasn’t able to get any pictures of this step because sewing black ears, with black thread, to a black wig, with a black wig net doesn’t lend itself to producing stunning photos. It wasn’t super difficult to sew the ears on, I just found that it was tricky to see what I was doing due to the long wig hair, and the furry ears.
Ready To Wear!
It Takes A Village To Cosplay!
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