Mask 2.0: Now with Less Suck

Updated 9/27:  I added the whites to the eyes.  Took about an hour per eye to hand-stitch in stretched out dollar store knee-high sock material.  Have a look:

(Intergalactic super hero by night.  Corporate cog by day...  And no one will ever be the wiser!) 

I'm not entirely pleased with how this looks.  I might try adding some black fabric over part of the whites to give it a better shape, but another part of me is saying to leave it alone so I don't potentially ruin all of my progress to date (maybe wait until some later project to make a Mark III from scratch).

In any event:  The next step is going to be the "profile" for the chest triangle.  I've got a few ideas.  Hopefully the first (and simplest) will be the one that works.  After that:  It's cape time!

Original Post:  So I decided that there were a lot of things I didn't like about the mask I made last night...  Which is to say the fact is was black was the only thing that really worked for me.

So, This evening I went back and modified the pattern some more to a) more closely reflect the ginormitude of my head and b) add some more Space Ghost specific details.  This is what I came up with:

The main things I changed were making the neck larger (both vertically and circumference) and adding what I was hoping would end up looking like the chest emblem.

Here's how it turned out:

I'm much happier with this one.  The chest emblem curled up a bit, but I think the addition of the red profile should help that (and if it doesn't, I'll velcro it to the body suit).  I also think I did an infinitely better job on the eyes.

So, tomorrow I'll try and get the eyes done and hem what looks like it needs hemming.

Mask / Cowl

9/13:  PROGRESS!  After getting through an unexpectedly busy week and working through a few technical difficulties (IE:  Messing up a bunch of times), I've come up with this:

As you can probably see, I had to add about 4 inches of fabric in the neck area.  I've adjusted my pattern accordingly for future use.  

Over the next couple of days I'll hopefully add the chest emblem, sew white into the eyes and accomplish a bit of hemming.

9/6:  Thanks to the majesty of the internet, I've found a very generous individual who has posted not only an instructional video, but also pattern for making a cowl!  I've traced her basic pattern off of my computer screen and tomorrow night I'm going to try and modify it to include the Space Ghost mask and maybe cut & sew if I have time.

I think the cape IS going to be a separate piece and use the SG profile chest piece as the clasp...  But not actually attached to the mask.  We'll see.


9/7 (1pm):  What better way to spend a lunch break than working on sewing patterns?  Attempt at modifying a cowl pattern into a mask and cowl that will accommodate my somewhat sizable schnoz:

(Ears marked out in case this works and I want to make different costumes in the future).

Tonight, I sew!