A WIP 2025 #9: Mar 6 - Mar 12 — Dewfeathers Cosplay and Dance

Sometimes a project takes more time than expected and sometimes it takes exactly as much time as you expected. But I have found that very rarely does it take less time than expected. This week was no exception! My “I’ll just work on this quick little thing” took 3 days of troubleshooting.

So, here’s what I worked on:

Fearne's hooves

This was a part of the project I have felt very intimidated by. But the weather is starting to get pretty warm where I live (we'll see how long it lasts) and I want to get most of my worbla/heat gun work out of the way while we still get chilly temps. I had purchased some heel-less boots from ThredUp a couple of years ago for this cosplay and plan to use them as my base for the hooves. However, I want the hooves to be completely removable from the boots so that I can use them for other cosplays in the future.

I started by first making a cling wrap and masking tape pattern, building out the shape of the hoof, and absolutely hated how that looked.

So I watched a couple of youtube videos of how other cosplays have done stuff like this and started making a paper pattern. It took a couple of days to get the shape right, I wanted a deep cleft to make it look like separate toes for her cloven hooves. I then cut my pattern out of worbla and shaped it to the boots. I wrapped the boots in some scrap fabric and carefully heated and applied the worbla to the boot so it would have a snug fit. It took quite a bit of shaping to get both hooves looking nice, but I'm pretty happy with them as a first attempt!