Kimono

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Based on Kimono by Brendan Oh.
I missed my favorite sale of the year and I was all pissy about it. Then I found I had a length of white fabric at the bottom of my fabric stash from the sale the year before. I've been wanting a kimono that fits me for ages. I have no idea why I didn't make one before now.
It's a lovely white fabric with 2 inch leaves on branches everywhere. It's fairly stiff and reminds me of formal outer kimono. It was easy to make.

The Obi was going to be a dusky green but I remember that fabric is to be used for another costume. But I did have fabric left over from my giant floor pillows in my living room. I think it came out better anyways! I came up with a very cool way to cheat with the obi. There are 2 layers of very stiff interfacing and boning in there, oh and cording too.

I hope to improve the false collars though. In the future I hope to dye the edges of the kimono and make different obis for each season.

Posted by Eien from Conyers, Georgia, United States • Published 20th February 2008 • See Eien's 3 projects »

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Hiro A. · Wilmington, Delaware, US · 7 projects 20th March 2013

This is very lovely but the way your kimono is crossed in the front illustrates that you are dead. Right over left for the living, left over right for the dead.

Hiro A. · Wilmington, Delaware, US · 7 projects 20th March 2013

This is very lovely but the way your kimono is crossed in the front illustrates that you are dead. Right over left for the living, left over right for the dead.

Hiro A. · Wilmington, Delaware, US · 7 projects 20th March 2013

This is very lovely but the way your kimono is crossed in the front illustrates that you are dead. Right over left for the living, left over right for the dead.

Pa Houa X. 23rd October 2012

oh gawd that is gorgeous!! ahh how you make it!! it just so lovely!

PJ · Avondale, Arizona, US · 96 projects 6th October 2010

wow that is awsome, quite the beauty to.

Mommy's Little Maniac · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 17 projects 11th June 2010

this is very pretty! im gonna need to make one for an anime convention next year similar to this!

Manda F. · 37 projects 15th September 2008

That's spectacular. I've been meaning to make my own kimono too, though, I would like a more reliable pattern than the one I have now. I'd also like to learn how to tie/make the components of the obi...