The costume was made back in 2012. I had my mother help me on the dress, as she is a seamstress, and had my dad help me with the syringe since he has the tools do to it and I don't trust myself using them.

 

Costume worn at Tsubasacon 2012 & 2013, Lexington Comic Con 2013, and Tristate Comic Con 2014.

 

 

The costume started originally as an Alice in Wonderland pattern since it had the basic dress and sleeve shape that we needed. We modified the pattern to make what we needed. We added the correct collar and changed the apron and chest piece to replicate the dress that the Little Sister character wears.

 

The fabric was bought from Hobby Lobby, along with the buttons. The body paint is Snazzaroo brand in white. I used basic grey eyeshadow for the dark around the eyes. The ribbon was bought at walmart.

 

I decided to do distressing and discoloring in the dress to give it more of a look and feel of what the character would have actually worn in the environment that they lived in. I actually took the dress into my art class, grabbed a few friends, and got them to help me with the distressing. It turned out to be a very fun time for all of us! We used a cheese grater, scissors, sculpting tools, and exacto knives. To do some discoloration I used old tea bags and a tiny bit of pastels in places.

 

 

The syringe was a lot of work and is pretty heavy to carry. My father and I went online and searched for a gasoline pump that looked like the one that the character carries. We had to go through a lot of sites before we found one I was content with, as I wanted to make the syringe as accurate as I possibly could. Once it came in we had to cut the end of the nozzle off because it bent. Once that was cut off we glued a dowel rod inside to give it an end. We then drilled into that dowel rod and glued in a smaller one to make the needle. We used a sander to give the end a sharper look. We used spray paint to color the dowel rods and then added some black and dark greys to make it look worn and added some red to the end to resemble blood. We added a piece of metal found at Lowes to the end to give the gas pump a more finished look, as it had an open part (presumably were something would go in to actually pump gas through). My dad took the gas pump into work and allowed a co-worker to drill a hole into the top (we had nothing at the house to use to do so) and we added in a thin metal pipe piece and put a plastic piece on top. We added sculpey pieces around the outside of the plastic to give it the look that the original has. We filled the bottle before putting it on the syringe, as it was easiest. The mason jar is filled with clear hair gel mixed with a bit of water and red food dye. We attached it to the plastic. Once it was dry, we flipped it to the regular sitting point and added a baby bottle nipple to the top and put sculpey around it. All the sculpey and the plastic piece got the same paint job that the dowel rods received.

 

 

I actually created the doll recently, so it's not in many pictures of the costume all together. I made it last minute to take with me to Tricon 2014. I found a good amount of the items needed throughout my house. The baseball, rubber bands, bottle cap, nail, thumb tacks, rope, and paper clip were found within the house. I bought a baby doll from walmart that had removeable clothes and pale skin, as it was easier to paint that way, and cut off the head and arms. I sealed the seams with some hot glue to give myself something to glue to later. Next up was the thumb tacks. They needed painted silver, which took a few coats, and then added some red to the ends and shoved them into the baseball. I took wire, bought from Walmart, and glued them to the head and tried to put them on the same as the video game model. I proceeded to glue the baseball to the top of the body. I them cut the rope to the length needed for the arms. I took apart and old penguin polymer clay charm, since it was the shape and size i needed, and painted it black and glued it to the side of the doll. For the other arm, I painted a thimble and the end of a cork opener (my dad had to saw it off the original opener), both bought from walmart, and filled the thimble with hot glue so I could get the look I needed. Once the glue was dried in the shape needed I began to glue the other rope piece to the thimble and then glued the arm to the doll. I mixed an apricot color with white and then painted the body of the doll. I painted the legs white then added the red stripes and proceeded to paint the feet black. The piece on the back is made from a cut dowel rod that is painted black. I painted the bottle cap black and added the bunny that is found in the model from the game. I then nailed it to the dowel rod and glued the dowel to the back of the doll. I wrapped the rubber bands around the body and the back piece as it showed in the model.

 

 

The costume won the announcers choice award at Tricon 2014.

I'll add more photos when I can get more from Tricon photographers and future cons.