Samarai Moo Progress Day 3

And I continue to work at least an hour a night on Samurai Moo. This evening I got the bulk of the jacket assembled, namely putting the front panels onto the back and the sleeves onto the whole thing. It's a big, bulky garment right now because, well, it's a kimono jacket, and because I left plenty of overlap in the front so that I could fit it properly tomorrow before adding collar and cuffs. I meant to fold and iron the length of the collar/cuff material tonight to prep for tomorrow, but put stuff away before remembering. That sets me back about 5 minutes for tomorrow's sewing.

In other news, I took Pari to her first 4-H meeting tonight. She got tired and squirrelly after an hour, but we got some work in on the service project (decorations for delivered meals), met people, heard some of what is coming up, and I got to chat with the Pendleton's of Pendleton Farms for a bit. I know them from Market, so it's always nice to see friends.

Samarai Moo Progress Day 2

Not quite as much progress as I was hoping, but some. I cut out the collar and cuff material, and then some. One thing I hate about doing the long pieces for collar and cuff is that it's easiest to use the selvage as a reference point, so you use a long length of fabric. This time around, since I was just cutting black twill, I decided to cut a whole bunch. So now I have 13 pieces of 5" wide, 8' long pieces of black twill that work perfect. I'm covered for the next several projects.

I was hoping to get something sewn tonight, but I doubt it, so the collar and cuff cutting may be it. At least I made some progress.

And the loaf using the wild yeast is rising nicely, it'll go in the oven in about an hour.

Still waiting for Kiyan to go to sleep. He's in bed, speaking to himself. I may just start cutting the collar and cuff material anyway for Samurai Moo. And since it's mostly straight lines, possibly get it done before midnight.

In parallel news, I've figured out what to do with the Ninja Moo concept. More on that later.

Samarai Moo

I'm going to finish the Samurai Moo outfit this week, even working just an hour a night on it should be enough. If I can finish the complete pinstripe kimono in under 3 hours from cutting until it was completely assembled, a kimono jacket and hakama shouldn't take more than 10 hours, probably less. I'll work on the cow print kimono jacket starting tonight, since I have that pattern down real well.

Samarai Moo

Samurai Moo needs to be done in under 2 months, for the anime con in KC March 13-15. I've been planning (and annoying you, my dear readers) about it for months, now I'm actually cranking it out.

Last year I did a simple pinstripe ankle length kimono for the anime con, and timed how long it took. Under 3 hours from cutting out to finished garment (not counting the obi, never quite figured out how to make one that I really like). So I know at least the jacket shouldn't take too long, even if I do add a few details like contrasting collar and cuffs.

So for this progress report, despite the process being interrupted by a sick Kiyan (see previous post if you want the brief but gross details), I have the back, front panels and sleeves cut out in my lovely cow print fabric. I'll cut out the black twill for collar and cuffs tomorrow, and might even get it assembled, along with ties to keep it closed.

Then I get to tackle the hakama.