How to: Flat Felled Seam

The flat felled seam is used in active and everyday wear. It's great for fabric that will be exposed to a lot of wear and tear.

Step by step instructions:

1. place your fabric fashion sides together
2. sew along your desired seam allowance
3. Press your seam
4. trim one side of your seam allowance
5. fold the longer side
6. sew close to the fold
7. press both sides of seam

Cosplay Vlog: Costume Preservation

After stumbling across my old costumes I wanted to talk for a little bit about ways that you can take better care of your costumes.

Costume Construction - Menma pt.1

I have been wanting to make a video focusing on costume construction for a while. For now I'll call it a "Work In Progress" until I can come up with a better name. Enjoy!

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Cosplay Vlog: 2 The Cosplay Wishlist

This time around I sat down to talk about one or two of my must have costumes and what I can only dream of owning.
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Quick tip: Securing Pins & Buttons

It's no fun loosing your favorite accessory. But there is a quick and easy fix that will help keep your buttons on their garments.

Cosplay Vlog: How I got started

In the first episode of a new series, I sit down and talk about how I got started making costumes.
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Top 10 Costumes of 2013

Let's wave goodbye to 2013 by taking a look at some of the great costumes we saw.

Happy New Year everyone! Hope to entertain you throughout next year too.

Episode 4 - Medium Costumes

The last entry in our introduction series is here! In this video we look at a few ways to make your own costumes.
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Quick Tip: Preventing Post Con Stink

Have you ever come home from a convention and your clothes and suitcase reeked? Here is a quick time that can help cut down on that.

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Product Review: Necomimi

Today we are going to take a look at a really cool piece of technology, Neruowear's Necomimi!
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The Nerd Closet: #3 The Simple Side of Cosplay

So the last time I tried to post this episode it was messing up. I'm still not sure what happen to mess the video up but I did manage to get a version that works. I hope you enjoy and share with your friends.

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Nerd Closet How to: Taking Your Measurements

In this Nerd Closet How to we take a look at a few simple measurements that will become the key to finding a well fitting costume. I apologize for the strange audio and video glitches; we were testing out a new lighting system and it caused a few yellow areas.Thank you so much for watching!

Download your very own measurements chart:
http://blackkittygamer.deviantart.com/art/Simple-measurement-chart-368529688

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Nerd Closet How-to #2 - How to Sew on a Button

Hello! Thanks for watching and for your patience as I took care of some family moments. (The wedding was beautiful!) In this episode of The Nerd Closet How-to we look at replacing lost buttons. I hope that you enjoy the video and if you have any questions or comments you can leave them in the box below or you can email me at thenerdcloset@gmail.com.

The Nerd Closet #2 - Getting Started

In this episode of The Nerd Closet we take a look a getting started and decided on a costume.

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Nerd Closet How-to #1 - Sewing Basics

Today we start off our series of how-to videos by looking at hand sewing basics. Ever wanted to learn how to hem a garment, sewing on a patch, or just attach something to something else? The sewing stitches found in our video are a great starting point for your sewing adventures. Join us next time when we take a look at button repair!

The Nerd Closet Episode 1: What is Cosplay?

And so it begins! With the first episode of The Nerd Closet web show we take a look at the definition of the word Cosplay and how it will apply to the series in the future. Thanks so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe!