Elven costume for Fan Expo - Part 1
Sorry that I haven't written a post in a while. Life has been busy. I've been writing and doing science. I've also applied to and been accepted at Heritage college & seminary. So, I will most likely be going there in the fall. I've also started to work on another costume. I might be going to Fan Expo in September and I've been trying to figure out which costume to make. I thought it would be cool to make armor, so I have finally decided to try my hand at making an elf costume. One of the ones that goes to Helm's Deep in the Two Towers. There are many different ways of making armor but I decided to try using craft foam. It's pretty cheap and seems easy to work with. I found this tutorial pretty helpful though there are a few times when I had to guess and tweak my pattern. I printed out the pattern from the tutorial. The pieces were very small, not at all to scale. So I had to trace the correct size onto the Bristol board. Once...