
The black lining is a stretch fabric that I used to give each piece of blue fabric more stability. Way too many.) To avoid that plain, slick, boring look, I like to do a real patterning job for my costumes instead of having the design details printed on the fabric, I like to choose thicker fabrics with an interesting texture and I like to add even more texture with padding materials, topstitches, pipings, etc. How many printed spandex Overwatch D.Va suits have I seen online? Too many. Since I’m working with light knits, I wanted to avoid my Vault suits to look like a typical Walmart stretch one piece Halloween costume or like these very popular printed stretch cosplay suits (that are, sorry to say it, the laziest thing a cosplayer can possibly wear. I’m not sure if I mentioned it before, but you’ll notice on the next picture that each blue piece of fabric has a black lining. If you’re a beginner, don’t be surprised if you don’t succeed at first try. Sewing a circular or oval piece in an opening of the same shape can also be a challenge. Sewing a rectangular piece of fabric in a rectangular opening can be a little challenging and I explained the technique in Part 2. After this, I decided to work on the knees, another small part. They needed all these steps before these little pieces were ready to be sewn to other pieces of the Vault suit.

Just like these first rectangular yokes with 5 welt pockets I made.


The Fallout 4 Vault suit is a perfect example of a garment made of many complicated separate pieces that individually require a lot of work before being assembled together.
