2. The Puppeteer: Skirt & Belt

Year: 2013/2014

Source: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag multiplayer

Materials: panama stretch

Conventions attended: Armageddon 2013, EB Expo 2013, Supanova (Melbourne & Sydney) 2014

Awards: Placed 2-5th in Ubisoft's E3 Fan Video Contest - Cosplay Category 2014

The Skirt

Skirt: version 2

The original skirt wasn't as light and flowy and wasn't wide enough to create the pleats. I also had to hand paint the flowers because I was in a rush.

About 4-5 months down the track, I finally got around to re-making the skirt. I used a lighter fabric this time around (panama stretch) and hand-embroidered all the little tulips.

About 2m of material and a total of 118 embroidered tulips!

There was a bit of an incident where I started embroidering the tulips the wrong way round and I had to make the skirt again... -_-

I was lucky with the lace edging because I'd bought a giant spool of it from the Garfunkle factory closing down sale last year because I thought it'd be useful. So when it came to making the Puppeteer, I remembered I had it and turns out it's pretty close to the edging in the original game artwork/model. Huzzah!

I printed out a template of a small section of the tulips and traced the design on with a pencil.

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The Belt

Testing the fit of the belts

I had the belts made by a guy at South Melbourne Market. He made one version that I decided later on I didn't like. He placed the vial loops too close to the buckle (see above) so on the morning of the day we were meant to drive up to Canberra, I got up super early and headed back into South Melbourne Market so he could re-make it for me.

I purchased the buckle from the same guy at South Melbourne Market. I covered the buckle with worbla to make it closer to the original artwork.