Yay! I finally finished drafting the pattern for my kimono tonight.




While I greatly respect John Marshall, and am grateful for his Make Your Own Japanese Clothes book, he could really simplify the pattern drafting element. If I get the urge someday, I'll make some sort of "appendix" for the book, showing how you can overlap the outlines of several pieces onto one pattern piece. It would have saved me so much time and effort if I'd thought of it sooner. I'd post it on the Immortal Geisha Forums or somewhere else that people who want to sew kimono get together. (BTW, if you want really authentic patterns for Japanese clothes, I would skip the oft-recommended Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes by Jenni Dobson. If I didn't have to pay postage, I would have mailed that one back to Amazon. If you want adapted clothes, I guess it's great.)

To celebrate my finishing this all-important step, I'm going to share a bunch of design sketches that show a little bit of progression from my first Tayuu idea, Leather Butterfly, to my current Jigoku Dayuu.
( Pictures and Notes )

Cheers everyone. Hope you're having a wonderful weekend.