Welcome!

Before we go full swing with the actual purpose of this blog, I'd just like to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Megan and I'm a cosplayer from the PNW. That's certainly not the only interesting thing about me, but that's all that really matters here.

I officially started cosplaying in 2014 after many years of going very full-out on Halloween costumes. The plan back then was to cosplay Loki, but after some Pinterest browsing, it soon became clear that that was way too complicated a project to start out with. So I scaled back, and have since been building up my skills. I hope to someday actually make that Loki costume, but for now it is as far on the horizon as Mount Doom at the end of Fellowship.

I decided to make this blog because, in the almost three years of my cosplay career, it was the blogs and videos of other cosplayers that constantly inspired and guided me, often saving my ass when things got tricky. There are costumes that would never have turned out as good as they did if it weren't for the tutorials posted by other cosplayers who had already got it figured out. So I wanted to be able to do the same for other up and coming cosplayers.

The first several posts will be for costumes I've already made. I've got some progress pictures, but nothing completely step-by-step, so I'll just talk you through how I made things. Once Emerald City Comicon is over, I'll be starting on my next crop of cosplays, so there'll be brand new updates for brand new things and you'll get to witness my trial-and-error in real time. I'll provide links to helpful tutorials I've referenced, items I've purchased (if they're not thrift store finds), and patterns I've used (with a few pointers on adjustments I've made, when applicable).

Anyway, I hope everyone reading enjoys this blog and I hope that it can help out some fellow cosplayers, and maybe even inspire some non-cosplayers to take it up.

May the Force be with you ;)
-Megan