Hakama repaired and packed. Costumes picked out and packed. Clothing... not quite packed 'coz I'm waiting for the bra I want to take to finish drying. Desk at work cleared to the point where I'm going to have nothing to do tomorrow. Cookies baking. In short, I am ready. Mwah ( Read more... )

roseembolism's hakama
racerxmachina's obi

Unfortunately, I need to back up and do a minor edit to my hakama. Le'sigh. Well, that's what tomorrow's for....

Got up early this morning and finished off roseembolism's hakama. They and his kimono have now been through the wash to remove things like chalk marks from construction and are currently in the dryer to remove any fluff they may've picked up during the making. So all that's left is racerxmachina's obi and Wonderful Husband and I are DONEWell, except for ironing and ( Read more... )

roseembolism's kimono
roseembolism's hakama
racerxmachina's obi

Finished the hand-sewing of seam finishes during three discs' worth of Card Captor Sakura. I was good and left the subs off. ^_^ And I got hit withthe last scene for the current "Tales from a Ramen Stall" story, so I'm going to have to get back to that at some point.

Somewhat relatedly, it being anime as well, I adore ( Read more... )

Wonderful Husband's hakama
roseembolism's kimono
roseembolism's obi
racerxmachina's obi

An' it's an hour and a half past my bedtime, so I am so not setting the alarm for six in the morning, but hey, I've polished off two pieces today, gotten the last measurement I need, and bought enough interfacing to make RXM's obi this weekend. So now, dear companions, I collapse unconscious.

my kimono
Wonderful Husband's kimono
racerxmachina's kimono
purchase shoes for WH and self
order tabi for WH and self
my hakama
WH's hakama
roseembolism's kimono
roseembolism's obi
racerxmachina's obi

And cookies.

Three kimono done. Shoes purchased, tabi ordered.

One hakama half-done.

One hakama to do, a kimono, and two obi.

And cookies.

Well, have almost finished my kimono... half of the collar guard left, and the inner seams of the two sleeves, and that's it. Probably would have finished it today, but I took a couple hours to galivant through garden supply centers (four in total) with my mother this morning, which was fun, and a bit more time to work on my garden (begone, evil ( Read more... )

Finished kimono #2 (Wonderful Husband's) yesterday. Got up this morning and inspecting the pieces for #3 (mine), discovered there were several small holes in about half the pieces. The collar it's okay for--I can just fold the edge they're closest to into the inside. But the overlaps and the collar guard? Had to recut them. Fortunately there ( Read more... )

Had hoped to finish kimono #2 today, but it was not to be. Have all of one sleeve's seams still to stitch down, as well as a little bit of the other left, and the collar guard to attach. Maybe I'll finish the one sleeve then whip-stitch the collar guard on next as a break from interminable hemming of raw edges. And Wonderful Husband is cutting ( Read more... )