my own version of han solo leggings! aka star war stretchy pants

I was totally inspired by these Han Solo leggings over at Set to Stunning. I do love FabricOnDemand, but in a recent stash inventory, I realized I had everything I needed right in the pile already! So I got to digging.

I thought, there is NO WAY I’m going to individually stitch on every one of those lines. I read up on Corellian Bloodstripes, and did a little math, that’s a LOT of individual pieces. So I came up with a reasonable facsimile:

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click to see the zigzag size and shape!

On my trusty Brother machine, I zigzagged lines about an inch apart across a 12″x12″ piece of red spandex. Yep, in this hobby, you’ve got red spandex just laying around. I know real Corellian Bloodstripes are farther apart but damn, those zigzag lines took FOREVER. Then, I cut strips 1.25″ wide out of the length. Since I’m short as hell, I only need about two and a half of each of these per leg.

I cut the legs out of a huge hoard of navy blue spandex I have, I think left over from this Gambit bodsyuit. Well, actually, it’s not a leggings pattern, but it’s the bottom half of this bodysuit with some adjustments made to make the crotch not-weird. I centered these strips down the middle of each of the legs and used the hem-sized WonderUnder to hold it down, which was a terrible idea because to get it hot enough to melt, the iron started melting the spandex. Fail one. My original intent was to zigzag down the sides of them for a satin stitched look. This was also a terrible idea and failed miserably. So, I ended up folding the edge of the blue spandex over and enclosing the edge of the red. It looks good! So I think that’s a decent recovery.

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I serged up the sides, but you could easily zigzag them too. I added a simple rectangle as the waistband, I just measured the top of the finished leggings, subtracted 2″, and cut a rectangle that length and 4″ tall. Folded it over, serged it on, done!

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Here is a close up picture of them on my butt. There are only so many ways to show what these things look like.

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And here is a picture of me being some weird Hank Venture Han Solo crossover:

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Take an hour and make your own stretchy pants, don’t pay $100 for the Star Wars license and some printed spandex! Man, people sure do love those things.

ps I KNOW THERE IS AN S ON THE END, POSSIBLE HATERS, ITS AN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT REFERENCE

marcus munitions

We’re starting to hoard weapons. No real mystery what the next costumes will be!

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None of these will make their final appearance looking anything like they do now, that’s for sure!

we were interviewed on the nerdist channel!

Seth Herzog of  the Nerdist Channel stopped us at Dragon*Con this year and had a chat with us about our Arkham City costume group. We spent a few minutes talking with him about how we decide who gets to be what character. We’re part of the latest episode of  the “Just Cos” podcast on the Nerdist Channel! Thanks Seth and everyone else at Nerdist for taking the time to showcase our hard work!

 

Ps – no we have no idea who that Deadma5 guy was. He jumped in the back of our group without me knowing during the interview!

oh no i am not puttin that thing on mah head

Says my second-favorite beauty queen, MacKenzie.

I was dubious that maybe we’d sculpted my ears too big, but I ended up just going with them. I’m ultimately happy with them, they look cute in photos!

The goggles and ears had some trials and tribulations getting them just right, so here they are in gallery form: