Selfmade Naga-Juban - WiP
The last weeks I bought looooooads of stuff.
I tried out my credit card and I guess.. I won't do that so often again. I hate that kind of losing control about how much money you've got left on your bank account, and if there wouldn't be some stuff I really wanted to have..
So now waiting for about three months, because of surface-mail and customs. I hate custom-fees, they are just too random, with exchange rate and minimum-prices etc - and I hate it the most if they add the shipping fee. This is totally random, too. Can't they just check which shipping fee is correct and take at least that back from the bill, if it's just because people tricked them all these years...
and it's totally frustrating if someone from custom says "you just had luck last time, when you didn't need to pay" T_T RLY?!
I have to rant about Photobucket, too. There's this fucking Trojan, EVERY SINGLE TIME I want to upload. That video-add starts.. and Kaspersky is going nuts... BAH!
And now back to topic..
about one month ago this lovely Nagajuban-Bolt was in my mail <3
And there it was.. 'til yesterday evening. (on the pictures it looks white, but it's a light silvery cream.. and soo pretty <3)
The bolt was sewed together at some points, so it wouldn't fall open, so I didn't know if the bolt was a whole piece or a taken apart old Juban, because in the description was something about discoloured parts on some back-part-thingi... anyway, I didn't see something like that, so.. WTH
It was in one piece and I cut the first two pieces for the body and hand-sewed the back-seam.
it was pretty OK, and I tried this seam I always see on my unlined Kimono: just one thread from one side to the other, nothing more.
I guess it works, but I'll see at the end, if it really is OK like the original.. sure, it takes about 30 minutes more than sewing-machine, but this feeling is just different. Machine-sewing my Yukata was like.. well.. it didn't feel awesome like this.
after the regular backseam I pondered about the horizontal back-seam to make the arm-hole-bottom-part more durable...
So I looked at one of my Juban.. took measurements.. and sewed.
If you look at full-view you really see were I started the sewing.. XD it turned sooo much better at the end. I love hand-sewing, and I get used to it again <3
next posting, as soon as there's something new to show.
Still pondering about the sleeve-length (sodetake)...
Have to go through my Kimono-collection and look what I need. Perhaps I'll make them removeable.. and could make new sleeves for other Kimono if ever needed :3 So less stress about buying new fitting Juban.. that's really pain in the ass.
My other problem is the Han-Eri.. I don't have any.. and now I think about.. just using the same fabric, even if it's cream. it's beautiful, it's soft.. and new Han-Eri are pretty pricy. And every other fabric feels. so. wrong.
any ideas about that?
And I'll SO MAKE A CHIKARA NUNO. HAVE TO!
Oh.. and I'll make a full lining on the Juban.. I've got one unlined.. and I don't really like that. As if one more layer of fabric would make such a difference. I don't want to wear Kimono in summer, anyway. Yukata if it's hot, ok.. but regular Kimono.. even if Ro or Sha.. then I could still go with a lined Juban - and wait for cooler weather.