i know this feel.

i wont have a sewing machine so i will have to do that sort of thing during christmas or after 2nd semester,
but i will be doing prop work and chainmail during the year

once you get to college you stop making them and grow the fuck up

>>4861345
troll harder

I quit cosplaying until my senior year of college. But I did continue to make my own clothing and halloween costumes. At my school, you could only access the sewing machines if you were currently enrolled in a class that used the fibers studio (or if you had a friend that was and they would let you in after hours).

During my senior year, I decided to start up again and my professor thought it was cool and helped me do fittings for my costumes. She would even photocopy any articles she found about cosplay and bring them in to show me.

>Finishing university
>Living at parents house, campus is just 40 minutes away by bus
>Can work on cosplay at any time

In October I'll start an internship, so I guess I'll have less time. So I'll just invest my time in one more complicated costume rather than on various simple ones.

yeah, I am hoping to take a few sewing classes there but I don't have any this semester

>>4861378
I just remembered what I would do my freshman year.. I brought my sewing machine from home with me and kept in a locker at my school. There were always open drawing studios, so I'd just set up in there. That was a lot easier than trying to sew in my dorm room before I was able to access the sewing studios.

Just general advice for new college kids - the first two years usually have a bunch of shitty general education requirement classes that you have to take - ace the fuck out of them. You'll be glad you did when you're doing your junior and senior coursework and a C starts to sound like a pretty damn good grade.

>>4861345
>Go to college
>Grow up

You only get to choose one, buddy.

I bring my sewing machine and my dress form and everything with me. My school is an arts school, so everyone's pretty chill about your dorm room being a danger zone of projects in whatever field you're interested in, even if they have nothing to do with class.

I do try and be reasonable with cosplays I make during the school year, though. No big wings or armor or large props or anything like that. I try to keep it simple during the school year, and then kick it back into high gear over the summer.

>>4861477
Pretty much this. I have the excuse of being a fashion major (albeit fashion business instead of design), but luckily that works as an excuse for most things. It really does help that I go to a huge art school, too. During my freshman year I was working on Kraehe, so I had my big feathery tutu and everything with me to finish before Youmacon. No one batted an eyelash other than to say, "Oh wow that's cool." And then a few people asked if I was a dance major.

For the most part, though, I try to keep the projects small when I'm at college, if only because it's easier to transport between school and home. I try to finish all my big stuff over the summer, then save the detail work and smaller things for finishing up in my dorm.

>>4861324
i do my shit along the summer/christmas/any holidays that last a week or more. shit sucks but you'll have to make less cosplays.

I live close to school, so I don't have the dorm issue.

I do work, though. So this year, it's one huge costume and maybe some smaller things.

I didn't do any cosplay during college except make like one costume during the summer. That was all I had time for. But I was a special case because of my school, my other college friends had a shit load of free time with only like 2 classes a day. I was at school for about 10 hours a day then had about another 8 hours work each night, so there was no time at all. Any free time I got I didn't want to work on cosplay cause I was sick of working on shit.

I just graduated and I'm working on more cosplay than I ever have before. Haters gonna hate.

For the most part I only work during the summer, and maybe have one or two new costumes each year. But then again I'm pretty casual, so one or two is nothing new for me.

When I went to CC, it was easy to cosplay since my time wasn't so consumed, but I made a concentrated effort to put cosplay on the backburn and my studies came first.

Now that I'm at a university, I hardly have time to make costumes between homework, papers, studying, internships, etc.. I do the bulk of my sewing on the weekends, but there will be times where I'd rather just be a lazy blob wasting my weekends watching TV. I also rent an apartment and have a lot more space than a dorm room to get my sewing on.