Liliana

When one of my best girl friends asked how I felt about becoming an auntie in the somewhat near future in the summer of 2014, I didn't expect to become one as quickly as I did. Her and her soon-to-be husband are expecting the little one in November; I was among the group who received phone calls before the general Facebook announcement went out in March when she confirmed they were expecting.

And I dragged my feet all the way up to the baby shower I couldn't attend (being on the wrong coast) and managed to fail to complete a baby set for them in time. It was only a week late, though, and I personally think it was worth the wait.

I went back to my favorite baby pattern collection, Doreen's Baby Gems, and repurposed the same one I used for Nerenya a few years back so that the little one could have her very first Sailor Moon cosplay. (The wedding will be a cosplay wedding, where the bride will be Neo Queen Serenity and the groom will be Captain America--Liliana, of course, will be the Small Lady.)

After much debating, I settled on bright but still subdued pink and blue with pastel yellow and a white with an iridescent shot through it.

I followed the jacket pattern, just switched between the blue and the white to give it the sailor uniform look and left the sleeves off. I did the bow as I do most of my hair accessories and cozies--chained enough to make a loop the right size, then alternated SC and DC around until it was the right height before gathering in the middle and winding a very long tail around to make the "knot".

I also followed the bootie pattern, switching for the white stripe, of course.

I ditched the bonnet pattern in favor of a simple baby beanie, however, in increments-of-6 rounds and adding stuffed spheres and twisty chains for the trademark meatball head look. For the spheres, I started with a pink magic circle, switched to the yellow and picked up the back loops on the first round only to give the appearance the hair shields were actually set over the hair.

I used PlanetJune's Love Hearts for the transformation locket on the heart and AmiNation's tiny crescent moon pattern for the moons on the boots and stitched them on with the yarn needle. It was pretty difficult supergluing the ends so that they wouldn't be scratchy, but the trick was to press the end onto the glue rather than let the glue soak into the end like I usually do.

Finally, I stitched the bow onto one side of the jacket and made a white chain loop just big enough to fit around it and attached that to the opposite side of the jacket to basically made a large, toggle-style button.

Chibi cosplay perfection achieved.