Made By A Fabricista: Special Grade Sorcerer… Miku Hatsune??

Hello everyone! I’m very excited to once again contribute to the Made by a Fabricista Blog! For this I made a new cosplay: Miku Hatsune from Vocaloid, but with a twist!

For those of you who don’t know, Miku Hatsune is a virtual idol from the Vocaloid series. Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesis software which uses voice banks from voice actors & singers. In this program people can make their own songs using these voices! There are so many characters in Vocaloid and Miku is the most popular one. She came out back in 2007 and is still going strong! She has so many songs and even does live concerts! She performed at Coachella one year and even opened for Lady Gaga at one of her concerts!  Miku has an iconic design, but she has so many others from her songs and the games! Fans have also made their own Miku designs. Some people incorporate their own culture, and some even based their designs on fast food places! 

Jujutsu Kaisen is one of my favorite anime and manga series of all time. In this series curses have monstrous forms and are very dangerous! The protagonists fight these curses. They use curse techniques, weapons and attacks to fight and exercise curses. In this series the main protagonists are high school students, and attend Jujutsu High, where they’re trained to fight these curses and grow their techniques! 

For this cosplay, I made what Miku’s outfit would be like if she was a character in Jujutsu Kaisen and a student. It’s Miku’s iconic design, but I changed the colors & added a few things! The students' uniforms are usually dark navy, but they’re allowed to customize them to however design they want! 

Without further ado, let’s get started! The very first thing I worked on for this cosplay was the skirt! I used the Dark Navy Natural Crush Quilt Kona Cotton fabric! 

I later cut a big strip of it & serged the edges to keep from fraying. 

On Miku’s iconic design, she has a teal strip on the bottom of her skirt. For that I used the Teal Polyester Stretch Shirting fabric. I also saw this beautiful Teal Floral Weave Lace fabric on Fabric Mart’s site and wanted to use it! I overlaid the lace fabric over the shirting fabric. Then I cut smaller strips of both and sewed them together so it’s one piece. 

The big navy strip and the small teal strip are sewn together & the bottom is hemmed.

I then made box pleats! The fabrics take the pleats so well! I pinned the pleats and then ironed them. Later after taking this photo, I sewed a basting stitch on top.

Then for a fun touch, I made the details on each of the pleats with heat transfer vinyl. These were ironed to all the pleats. They look so great on this fabric! Lastly for the skirt, I made the waist band and inserted elastic.

For the top, I made a mockup 1st and then transferred the pieces to the Midnight Navy Shirting fabric! I added fusible interfacing for a bit more strength, and later used my mockup pieces for the lining. 

I took strips of the teal floral lace fabric, folded in half and gathered. Then I sandwiched the gathered teal lace pieces on the edges between the outer and lining fabrics, and sewed them all together. An invisible zipper is sewed to the front. I also made the collar out of the same midnight navy shirting fabric and gathered teal floral lace fabric. It’s sewed to the neck & I added a snap for the opening.  

Lastly I hand sewed these buttons! These are replicas of the same buttons that the Jujutsu High students wear on their uniform! 

Then there’s Miku’s iconic sleeves! I cut the sleeves out of the same dark navy kona cotton fabric, hemmed the bottom, and put them to the side. I then made the details out of heat transfer vinyl, ironed the details to the midnight navy shirting fabric & cut the rectangle shapes for both.

Then I added these details to the main sleeves, by doing applique! I added Heat and Bond Lite to the back of the 2 detail pieces, ironed them to the sleeve pieces, and satin stitched the edges in place. The ends of the sleeves are then sewed together & elastic is added on top. I then sewed more of the buttons on top for each.

I also made the neck tie out of the same teal shirting fabric and the teal lace. This was my 1st time making a neck tie out of scratch and it wasn’t too shabby! I then sewed my remaining buttons to the tie.

She also has a hanging lanyard on her skirt. I cut a strip of the teal shirting fabric and added interfacing on the back. I made the triangles out of the teal lace fabric & added to the strip by doing applique & satin stitching. I sewed the long ends of the strip together, turned inside out, and sewed the ends shut. Finally I sewed the ends of the lanyard to these swivel hooks.

After that I styled the wig and made the hair pieces and headphones out of EVA foam!

I had this Miku idea for a couple of years and I’m very happy with how this came out! Thank Fabric Mart for allowing me to bring this strange idea to life! Miku can now sing to her loving fans while also exorcising curses on the side!

MEGU | @stardust_megu