SCA event today, daytripped. No pics, as my camera is dead, poo.

Ikan no ho sewing issues, copy and pasted from my email to the sca-jml



With the rush to make the outfit for today (yes, 48 hour sewing frenzies are bad for your health, I know) and my camera batteries dead, I don't have pictures yet of the outfit worn. Yet. I'll get to it, once I remake the ho. The one today was in a black sheer, which looked cool when it was behaving, and not splitting at the seams. Also, I had to skip a few steps in the panel hemming process due to time constraints. I love my serger.

Ahem. Anyway. I didn't have any problems making the hakama, and any issues with the kosode/hitoe/akome were due to my hatred of arranging and sewing collars. I had a few construction issues with the ho though, largely due to proportions. Although I am 5'5", the dimensions in the Garb section's pdfs would have left the garment dragging on the ground, even belted up.

I tried resizing (56" front panel went to 51", the back similarly resized, and the ran shortened to 14"), which may have worked. (Sheer fabric slips from belt ties. Grr.) But where on the body should the belt/top of the 'pocket' hit? Also, how far are the sleeves supposed to be sewn? I vaguely recall "one foot from bottom of sleeve" mentioned somewhere, but I'm not sure if that was referring to the sleeve itself, or how far the body panels were sewn up the sides. (Or if I imagined it, which is quite possible after roundabout six hours of sleep in the past 48 hours.)

When I get around to posting photos, I'll include all the things I /know/ I did wrong or sloppily, though I hope that with a little work, none of them are unwearable. :D



Going to sleep and/or read Turn Coat now. Yay Dresden Files!

Tomorrow I need to work on curriculum project -- and find the paper that I had started drafting stuff out on. I have a syllabus kinda put together, and a rudimentary class period structure outlined, but I don't have a handle on the day to day content yet. I'm making a five-week (two 1 hr classes/wk) lesson plan for middle schoolers at an eikawa (English conversation/cram school), topic focus on travel and vacation. If anyone has any tips, they would be greatly appreciated.