G[r]eek Alphabet - Z is for Zaphod Beeblebrox

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking poetryghost you're a LIBRARIAN, shouldn't that be B is for Beeblebrox, Zaphod. Actually you aren't cos only librarians think these kind of thoughts but never mind.

I'm not 100% well and to cheer myself up at being not able to go to dance class I thought I'd catch you up on letter Z.

Zaphod is a fun character - fond of clashing outfits but also a bit suave. I decided I would make the colours as extreme as possible but preferably not eyewateringly painful to look at.

I started with the peach background and then added green and purple, notoriously bad colours to wear together. To make it bearable I toned down the green and the purple was darker anyway. I dithered over the letter colour for a while but ended up with dark greenish to contrast everything else going on and to avoid adding more colours to the palette.

I did worry initially about the skin being a beige colour and fading into the peach background but I figured if I gave him brown hair on his heads then that would help to outline his heads

So then I wanted a way to link the two halves of his shirt so that it didn't look like two guys hugging each other. So I created a zig zag across the edges using embroidery.

At this point the glass for his pan galatic gargle blaster was too dark on the dark of the green so I outlined it in white.

I realised that the pale green was also fading into the background too much, so I decided that having outlined one green sleeve in purple I could outline the whole of the green side in purple as well. I also outlined all the flesh in a very thin black line.

So there we are Zaphod Beeblebrox is complete!

Final news before bed - letter A now has a completed back and is completely sewn up! Yay!!!!!!!!!!

I aten't dead

Alphabet News

Z is for what exactly?

I know what you're thinking, where the frak is the letter Z for Zaphod Beeblebrox and well, you'd be right I haven't posted it yet. Stuff happened and things, things also happened. I reassure you dear reader, I have completed Z. In fact I've completed another of the extra letters. As part of being considerate and maintaining my friend's privacy over her child, I have decided I won't be posting any of those letters up. Although it is doubtful anyone could guess their name and surname just from seeing 3 extra letters I don't wish to run that risk.

Overall project progress

Further news - I've finally got all the velcro I need for the sticking up, and have started working on the attachment. The fuzzy half of the velcro is pinned in place on the backing cloth and my lovely Mum has attached a pole to the top.

I've even started sewing on the first back of a letter. I decided I would die of boredom if I made all the backs at once and then sewed them all on. So I will be making one back at a time and then sewing it on one at a time. This means that the letter A is almost completely done, velcro and all!!!! Wooo!

New plushie on the horizon

So someone asked me to make a new plushie, and not any old plushie........it's....erm Loki from Thor and Avengers movie.

I'm simultaneously very yay and a bit argh! Panic!

Today I thought I'd start working out what needs to be made and in what colours, and as always I was bemused by costume variants both within movies and between movies.

Clearly he will have a helmet. With horns. Obviously.
But then there's

• cape/no cape variants
• armour/no armour
• two different staves
  and
• various shoulder pad combinations.

 Obviously my plushie will not be a perfect copy of any of these outfits. I'm not made of magic people!

Currently my plan is :

• Basic body of plushie will have the tunic that sort of has a v cutout on the front
• Coat with no sleeves over the top lined with green mid calf length
• Cape attached to the coat with no sleeves in green

I can't work out if I will be putting the goldy armour on the coat or not but if I don't it will be quite dark. That's partly why I'm doing the cape. He wears a lot of black.

Anyhoo I will be asking my lovely friends who made a full scale femme version of the costume to help out and advise!

Links for reference

Loki cosplay tumblr
Loki cosplay photobucket picture refs