Almost There!

I'm really excited about how things are turning out. I had the hakama pants finish on the weekend and the fit wonderfully. Today I'm finish up the painting the back panel of the kimono and going the sewing up the collar/ shoulder area as well. 

Here's a brief look at the finish butterflies. Each size of butterflies has there own look. I will taking more pictures one I assemble the kimono more.

Nanami's Kagura Bell

Took me a while, but I got it done.

I did get some help with the welding and sawing, but I did the majority of work.

Sewing, Pinning, and Painting, Oh My!

I have complete the under- shirt and I have already started to sew the hakama pants.

Usually the under-shirt would have sleeves, but I decided to leave them out. You only get to see the torso and it's going to be very hot in the convention building.

I finishing off the white butterflies on the sleeve right now. Once I'm done painting the base coat I'm going to start paint the designs on them. 

I'm also finishing the Nanami's kagura bell today. Once complete, I'll take a few pictures of it. 

Busy Like a Bee!

Hey guys! There has been a lot happening on my end. It involves a lot of purple paint.

This is the back piece of the kimono that I've done with the purple butterflies. It's kind of hard to take a good picture of this because in certain light you can't even see the butterflies. Where I'm at with the stencil work, I still have one sleeve to do in purple, then I'm starting the white base of the coloured butterflies. 

Between my stencil work I been doing other things on the side. I made this necklace last night. Originally I was going to buy a necklace but I couldn't anything. It was harder to find beads that match and necklace- clasps.

The kagura bell, here what it looks like with the bells attached. I also made a "good luck knot" too attach the ribbons to the bell. I still have to get the ribbons.

Today I'm going the working on the last of the purple stencil work and starting to work on the white under shirt.