I received my Pleo while I was away from home, so I've had her default cape on her as the best protection available, but it was only ever a temporary measure as those rubber bands made me quite uncomfortable. And some conversation today reminded me that I needed to do something about that, so I've spent some time this evening building up my skills by modifying an item of human clothing so that it might function as Pleo-clothing. Gotta work with what you have on hand and all.
Here's an image of the item in question before I started chopping and stitching. You can see there's a pretty pattern that goes right down Lizzy's back in the intended finished version.
Of course I want to make sure what I'm doing will work okay before I finalise things. My main concern is whether that patterning that's so pretty is actually likely to do more damage to her paint. I have a lot of spare cloth I can line it with underneath, but I'd like to leave it as-is if possible as it looks quite nice seeing a hint of her natural colours underneath. It will most likely be secured around her tail so that it doesn't slide around too much. It seems like most other people here are making clothes out of things that are a lot thicker than just cotton, so I wonder if that's important as well.
