Danny Sexbang pt 4 - Clothes!
Hey readers! Happy 2018!
Hope your resolution is to make more things! Today I am talking about making the clothes for my Danny puppet. There are a ton of people who cosplay as Danny Sexbang on the internet, so I needed to do this costume justice.
The look is a red Star of David on a white circle on a blue spandex outfit. The puppet version is made of a children's XS shirt and some felt. I used a pot lid as my template for the white, and then made my Star of David pattern by cutting out two equilateral triangles and taping them on top of each other.
I needed to figure out how I was going to attach all of this to the shirt. I was thinking about my yarn hair and my thick wooden dowel arm supports, and I thought that doing a chunky black yarn stitch around the outside would really bring together the style I was going for.
I started with an obsession that every stitch be exactly even, but then quickly realized that was 1. not realistic and 2. counter to the style I was going for. I somehow managed to stab the thick yarn need straight through my hand. Apparently yarn needles are not sharp enough to make it through felt easily, but they can go right through my hand with no problem. Good to know.
My finger-stigmata aside, the final shirt looks amazing. I love that it looks almost cartoon-ey with the big chunky stitches showing. The next project was the cape.
There are two main versions of the Danny Sexbang cape. I decided to do a big of a mix of both. The first (and original) look is the classic. You can see that there is a feather boa running all along the outside of the cape, and that it is tied to his neck and wrists with red ribbon. I didn't think that that ribbon on the neck of a puppet would translate as well, and might even pull at the neck and mess up the overall look - you know, since there is only a wrist inside there and not a whole neck and throat like on a real person. In the updated look he wears in many of his cover music videos, the cape has no boa and is attached with buttons on the shoulders. So for my puppet version, I decided to do a boa along the outside (because feathers and puppets are a match made in heaver) and then buttons on the shoulders. I also plan to put the red straps on the wrists - but that's not today's project.
When I bought the XS shirt for the puppet, I bought the same shirt in a large for the cape. I cut the top off the shit and was just going to use the tube shaped bottom. I folded it in half and free handed a rounded edge like the real cape. I sewed the boa on with a whip stitch and discovered just how tough it is to maneuver around tiny feathers. Also, feathers get everywhere. I found feathers in sealed packages days later. True story.
I sewed two giant buttons on the shoulders of the shirt and went about making my buttonholes on my cape. I should note that I used the bottom of the shirt as the top of my cape. This made the factory finished edge the one you could see and my poor attempt at hemming was well hidden by those pesky feathers.
There you have it all put together! I have two finishing touches left to make, and we will see those next time.
Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
Hope your resolution is to make more things! Today I am talking about making the clothes for my Danny puppet. There are a ton of people who cosplay as Danny Sexbang on the internet, so I needed to do this costume justice. The look is a red Star of David on a white circle on a blue spandex outfit. The puppet version is made of a children's XS shirt and some felt. I used a pot lid as my template for the white, and then made my Star of David pattern by cutting out two equilateral triangles and taping them on top of each other.
I needed to figure out how I was going to attach all of this to the shirt. I was thinking about my yarn hair and my thick wooden dowel arm supports, and I thought that doing a chunky black yarn stitch around the outside would really bring together the style I was going for.
I started with an obsession that every stitch be exactly even, but then quickly realized that was 1. not realistic and 2. counter to the style I was going for. I somehow managed to stab the thick yarn need straight through my hand. Apparently yarn needles are not sharp enough to make it through felt easily, but they can go right through my hand with no problem. Good to know.My finger-stigmata aside, the final shirt looks amazing. I love that it looks almost cartoon-ey with the big chunky stitches showing. The next project was the cape.
There are two main versions of the Danny Sexbang cape. I decided to do a big of a mix of both. The first (and original) look is the classic. You can see that there is a feather boa running all along the outside of the cape, and that it is tied to his neck and wrists with red ribbon. I didn't think that that ribbon on the neck of a puppet would translate as well, and might even pull at the neck and mess up the overall look - you know, since there is only a wrist inside there and not a whole neck and throat like on a real person. In the updated look he wears in many of his cover music videos, the cape has no boa and is attached with buttons on the shoulders. So for my puppet version, I decided to do a boa along the outside (because feathers and puppets are a match made in heaver) and then buttons on the shoulders. I also plan to put the red straps on the wrists - but that's not today's project. 
When I bought the XS shirt for the puppet, I bought the same shirt in a large for the cape. I cut the top off the shit and was just going to use the tube shaped bottom. I folded it in half and free handed a rounded edge like the real cape. I sewed the boa on with a whip stitch and discovered just how tough it is to maneuver around tiny feathers. Also, feathers get everywhere. I found feathers in sealed packages days later. True story.
I sewed two giant buttons on the shoulders of the shirt and went about making my buttonholes on my cape. I should note that I used the bottom of the shirt as the top of my cape. This made the factory finished edge the one you could see and my poor attempt at hemming was well hidden by those pesky feathers.
Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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