Kimono Covetness
This weeks sewing effort, in between working on a very tedious assignment, much of which was done last week, was to make this kimono. I had decided that I wanted one after seeing Annie's kimono. So I decided to make one. I rummaged through the stash and found this fabric, purchased by mail order from The Remnant Warehouse. : It's a self stripe gauzey-viole -ey sort of sheer cotton. I purchased it to stash, knowing that one day the perfect idea would come along that would need this fabric. And I thought a kimono was the perfect idea. So out came the fabric :) I used a combination of patterns: The one on the left has a 90 degree angle at the sleeve/bodice junction - and I made a kimono years ago using this sort of sleeve. It doesn't turn well unless you clip into it, and then you can't finish it. I morphed the kimono pattern onto the jacket pattern on the right and took the sleeves from that pattern. They are not quite as wide as the kimono s