Chicago Wizard World Comic Convention 2013 Cosplay Preparation

Cos Play

This is the third year we have attended this convention.  My daughter likes to go in costume.  This year I lucked out and didn't have to do a lot of sewing as I have had in the past.

The first convention we went to my daughter wanted to go as Chell from Portal and Portal 2.

Here she is as Chell.....

Had to find a convict costume then added the accents which you cannot tell from this picture =\   Plus we made an Aperture Science decal and added it to the tank she was wearing. 

She had a great time.  Her father made a portal gun, but by this time it was too heavy .. stuck with the Space Sphere to walk the convention floor.

The following year she wanted to go as a Little Sister from Bioshock... noticing a theme here ?    =)

We found a blue dress at the thrift store.. I'm not very good with the sewing machine but I don't think I did so bad... at least from afar =)  I had to add the peter pan collar and the bib in the front.  I made a pattern for each by drawing it via Word.  Her father made the Adam gun that she carried.  Her father was trying to make a Big Daddy costume, but it didn't go as well.  My daughter had seen this video and wanted to reenact it too.. didn't get the chance but we did meet a Big Daddy at the C2E2 convention. 

This year she wanted to go as Wendy from Don't Starve.  Super easy for me!!

This was a fun one for me.  The previous two years my husband had the fun of creating the weapons she carried.  This time I was able to crochet the accessories =)

I crocheted the small bird, ham bat, mandrake, some veggies, and the flower in her hair all from the game.




I'm working on a  post to focus  more on the crocheted items and an idea of how i made them..... =)