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Post by Miura Suzume on Nov 19, 2018 8:44:21 GMT -5
I've decided that instead of making multiple posts per project per thread, I'm just going to keep a masterpost of all the things I'm working on in a given category. At some point I think I'll backtrack and add past projects here, but for now, I'd like to start with my most recent project, which is 90% complete as of the evening of 11/18/18: baby's first attempt at a dan-gawari kosode! I still need to hem everything and finish the collar. Still, I'm amazed at how it's turned out. It required significantly more math than I expected, and math is by far not my strong suit. I'm excited to wear it in a few weekends!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 9:21:02 GMT -5
I've decided that instead of making multiple posts per project per thread, I'm just going to keep a masterpost of all the things I'm working on in a given category. This plan works for me. Sometimes, I will pick somebody *else's* thread to use as the master for my projects of the same type. Any kind of organization helps in the long run, though in the short most people just read "recent posts". That looks great! Those panels are nice and wide. Those seams look super straight!
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Post by Miura Suzume on Dec 17, 2018 14:52:30 GMT -5
That looks great! Those panels are nice and wide. Those seams look super straight! Thank you kindly! It required a significant amount of of my dad hovering over my shoulder, reminding me about how numbers actually work. But I think it turned out well!
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Post by Miura Suzume on Dec 26, 2018 23:25:50 GMT -5
I just received new fabric to begin my next project! In the spirit of celebration, and before I get too far ahead of myself, I'd like to present the progress pictures for the first uchikake I constructed, done in September 2018. I quite liked Saionji-hime's replica of the Tosenin brown kosode, but had little faith in my own skill or patience when it came to hand-painting all those damned lozenges. However, my mom has taken to block printing like a duck to water over the past several years, and we have plenty of materials for it. We use a carving material produced by Speedball called "Speedy-Cut". It's much easier to carve than standard linoleum blocks, but the down side is that it is very floppy. Small designs about the size of one's palm are usually fine without a backing, but I affixed mine to a block of wood before I began carving. Also displayed: the first test print on a scrap of the red-shot-black dupioni silk I used as the outer layer. Dupioni is not my favorite silk, but it's what we had, and it ended up working out well enough for a first attempt. A side-by-side comparison of the dupioni and the light-weight linen I used as the lining... ...and an in-progress version that shows the print in action! Each row is inverted from the next. Sadly, I don't have any good pictures of me actually wearing it. There are a few foibles I need to fix--the collar is much too long, I didn't roll the hems terribly well, and I attached the lining inside out. Still, she certainly is pretty!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 17:47:39 GMT -5
That's pretty great. I'll have to look into that carving material. Her Ladyship Hara keeps trying to talk me into doing more carving for block printing, but I keep putting it off because I don't want to have to complete one project (carving) before I can start on the project I want to make. I need to make some silk pennons for our Baronial list ropes, and not having to hand paint dozens of comets would save me so much time.
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Post by Miura Suzume on Dec 31, 2018 21:11:12 GMT -5
That's pretty great. I'll have to look into that carving material. Her Ladyship Hara keeps trying to talk me into doing more carving for block printing, but I keep putting it off because I don't want to have to complete one project (carving) before I can start on the project I want to make. I need to make some silk pennons for our Baronial list ropes, and not having to hand paint dozens of comets would save me so much time. It certainly would that! The only silk we've tried it on thus far is Dharma's 19mm charmeuse, but I'll be trying it on their 12mm charmeuse in relatively short order--we'll see how the system holds up on a lighter-weight fabric. The good thing about the Speedy-Cut material is that carving it is precisely that--speedy. Indeed, calling it "carving" makes it sound significantly more taxing than it actually is. While solid linoleum blocks require a ton of effort, "carving" Speedy-Cut is more like pushing a knife through slightly-below-room-temperature butter. Blick produces a similar material called Readycut, but in our experience, while the material is even softer than Speedball's Speedy-Cut, it also compresses a lot more and doesn't spring as readily back to its original shape. This means that if you don't take the time to completely remove all excess carving material or carve your voids quite deep, you can end up with paint lines on your fabric from prominent ridges left in what should be the empty spaces outside of the design itself.
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