This was our second year attending the con, but our first year Cosplaying.
Cosplaying is essentially dressing up in a costume and pretending to be that character, usually in a very public place! I was Princess Zelda from Nintendo's Zelda
video games.
In the game, Zelda is the damsel in distress that is always needing to be rescued by the hero, Link. There were a lot more Link characters in costume and I tried to get photographs with as many as I could, even the cute kids!
Dressing up as a video game character might seem like an odd thing for a 31 year old woman to do, but I honestly had SO MUCH FUN. It was a creative adventure to build the costume, and even more fun to dress up,
put on my funky ears, and pose for people to snap photos on the convention floor.
I also realized that this is the perfect place for young kids to get into sewing and quilting. They're eager to make their own costumes and props, even if they have to use staples and duct tape to do it. These are our future quilters!
Unfortunately James wasn't interested in dressing up this year, but Josh has spent months putting together a unique, original costume - a Soviet era Invisible Man. Here he is improving Cold War 1980s relations with Captain America:
