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Post by jennieg on May 10, 2009 13:17:15 GMT
My son has been all the way from Oz to Whitehorse! He loved it.
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 12, 2009 10:37:20 GMT
I'm starting on my next kimono for a Japanese teenage doll - a very cheap version of the iconic Jenny www.flickr.com/groups/jennyclub/pool/ She started as Barbie in the early 80s when Takara had a licence from Mattel to make a Japanese version of Barbie. A few years later Mattel took back the licence & she was renamed Jenny. I have 2 collector's editions of Jenny plus the one (not a collector's edition) I recently redressed in kimono, using a Japanese language book (see 2nd book in link below), & 2 cheap Japanese teenage dolls which I'll also be dressing in kimono using the 3rd book in the link below. The one I've just started will be a (modern) traditional bride in red/gold silk, the other will be a Medieval court lady. www.manika.com/fsbooksmags_1.htm Pic of the Medieval kimono I'll be making, & a white wedding kimono are on the cover of 3rd book. Japanese brides wear 2 kimono for their weddings - white at the temple & a red kimono over it later. I'm planning to do both - by early July - so need to get working. sandra
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Post by ragdall on May 13, 2009 6:53:23 GMT
Goodness, Sandra! The kimonos look so complicated. You'll have a lot of work ahead of you.
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Post by ragdall on May 13, 2009 7:14:52 GMT
Joan's progress on her rug:
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 14, 2009 9:42:09 GMT
rags - I'm planning on making it even more complicated! Not only do I need to make a wig (bunkin-takashimada style - good pics & diagrams available & I"ve made doll wigs before) but I need to make kanzashi (hair ornaments & combs) using yellow metal pins & yellow metal beads etc - simple in theory, but I'll need to find more pics, she also needs fans & accessories for each kimono.
1. thin cotton under garments (wrap around petticoat & top with long sleeves) 2. white-on-white underkimono with obi 3. white wedding kimono (shiro-maku) for the ceremony with white hood (tsuno kakushi) 4. red kimono (uchikake) worn over this for the reception. 5. white fan & coloured fan 6. white purse & coloured purse (hakoseko) 7. a small encased sword called kaiken for each kimono
Fortunately I have patterns for the last 2 items! And the kaiken pattern doesn't use a real sword, just a piece of board to stiffen the case.
Rather than make the under kimono & white wedding kimono in the same soft kimono-lining silk, I decided maybe I could paint delicate little curvy lines (grass fronds??) on a plain white satiny silk in my stash, following the pattern of another (very pale green) kimono-lining silk I have! None of the on-line kimono fabric suppliers have white-on-white silk at the moment.
If the painting plan doesn't work, her underkimono will be plain white silk satin. Unless I can get some more white-on-white Japanese silk. Of course if I had lots of time & the inclination I could embroider the plain silk satin.
And all this has to be made by the first Sat in July.
sandra
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Post by ragdall on May 15, 2009 4:40:53 GMT
Sandra, Is there a display in July that you are planning to participate in?
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 15, 2009 10:24:57 GMT
My doll club is having a competition for dolls in wedding dresses. One category is a copy of member's own wedding dress . One of my friends was married in a mini dress of lilac hailspot (a fine cotton with embroidered or printed spots/shapes) & couldn't find any hailspot anywhere. The month she didn't get to the Doll club we had a Bring & Buy sale & I found an old white minidress which was perfect & has since been dyed, cut up & made up. Her Barbie is now awaiting a floppy straw hat!
There are several other categories & the International Brides category was created so I would make the kimono I was thinking about making! By the mini-skirted bride who likes to make me work.
A friend who works in a craft shop says trying to paint on silk is not easy as silk paints/dyes are meant to diffuse into the fabric & acrylic paints would crack, so I found a piece of white (Chinese Synthetic) jacquard that might be usable, tho as I have some acrylic paint I'll make a sample & see what results.
Sometime this weekend after moving stuff which is all over the table & floor (stuff from committee meeting Wed night, 1 box of family history left on the floor Wed night, library books, stuff I took to craft group today, stuff I bought at my friend's shop, stuff that is meant to live in neat piles on the floor, other stuff ...) I'll get working.
sandra (typo corrected - what's a sloppy straw hat!)
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Post by ragdall on May 17, 2009 3:50:57 GMT
Sandra, Your room sounds like mine, but I have different types of items preventing the floor from getting dusty.
If you are able to, please post "in progress" photos. You will be very busy accomplishing all that you have planned.
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 22, 2009 16:24:23 GMT
Jenny clone* has her underwear, apart from her socks! my.opera.com/sandra%20in%20sydney/albums/ - see 4 pics in Craft album. www.sailormo.net/kimono/k_access.html site with info on dressing in kimono malloryray.com/kimono/types-of-kimono/ types of kimono Wedding kimono www.kekkonshiki.org/kimono.asp#uchikake www.japanesekimono.com/wedding_kimono.htm Jenny clone* - a cheap copy of Jenny & her friends - not even made in the same factory. I found 2 of this doll in a junk/$2/bargain shop & was feeling very disappointed that I had to use her cos I can't get hold of any more Jenny dolls at the moment, apart from beautifully dressed collector's editions on eBay. Now that she's wearing clothes she does look better - even pretty (ya should have seen the crappy mini dress she was wearing) I had been thinking I could replace her with a Jenny when I manage to get another one - but now I feel I'll just dress the next Jenny in a new outfit (dunno where I'm going to fit all these Jennys & clones, my Japanese shelves are crowded, as are all my other shelves.) My second Jenny clone will be dressed in the Heian (medieval) period outfit on the cover of the book I posted earlier. This Jenny clone will be wearing the white outfit on the cover, as well as the kimono in the background of some of the underwear photos. sandra
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Post by ragdall on May 27, 2009 9:07:57 GMT
Sandra, You're making wonderful progress. I was surprised to see a blonde doll dressed in Japanese garb. It's a little difficult finding the photos. I wonder if it's possible to link to them without opening all the other pages along the way? Jenny clone* has her underwear, apart from her socks! my.opera.com/sandra%20in%20sydney/albums/ - see 4 pics in Craft album.
I think this refers to the last four photos here?
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 28, 2009 0:05:16 GMT
rags, that's them (she sez ungrammatically)- I'll provide individual links in future. Jenny started as the Japanese Barbie & like Barbie has many looks & zillions of costumes & collector's boxed editions. She is based on those large-eyed faces we see in TV cartoons & manga. There are several double-page ads in the book I'm using showing Jenny & her male & female friends with all colours of hair - blond, red heads, & assorted browns. And all kinds of outfits from swimsuits to traditional Japanese costume, including pale blond male & female kimono wearers! to jeans & Lolita outfits en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_fashion. Update I'm working on the under kimono using a lovely soft silk with woven flowers. The material was formerly part of a kimono lining & I only just fitted the pieces on the fabric. I had a disaster when I was ironing a seam - under my old ironing hankie cos silk is a fragile fabric BUT I had the Craft Group's new iron on linen temperature. oops. I now have a strange but fascinating bow-shaped piece that was formerly 2 rectangles with a centre seam that I was (allegedly) pressing. Fortunately I had enough left to cut the piece again & almost enough for the collar I'd forgotten (that piece has very narrow seams!) The under kimono has an underskirt & the lower skirt is lined with another plain white silk cos I didn't have enough lining silk, so I could have cannibalised the other lining if necessary. Today I'll be collecting another soft white-on-white lining silk to use as her Shinto wedding kimono. I recently bought the silk fro her reception kimono. All future ironing will be done, as always, under the old ironing hankie, but using a much lower temperature, & I'll find some use for the interesting piece of silk in another project. by the by, I was looking at a friends flickr site yesterday & saw she belongs to a flickr group - Craft365. Members post a pic a day of the items they're working on & there are some amazing items in the pool. www.flickr.com/groups/crafting365/pool/ sandra
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Post by sorcha on Jun 3, 2009 22:24:11 GMT
Are DIY projects counted? I've stripped the front entry hall hardwood floor (stripper), sanded it 3 times, stained it. At a total standstill there as far as putting down polyurethane until it stops raining. Want to paint up there too.
Took up some very NASTY carpet upstairs today....just FULL of cat pee. Had a shower and I still feed dirty! Finish cleaning up the floor and lay peel and stick tile.
Been working on curtains for the son and DiL....8" red and black chequerboard...have 3/4 of the curtains done, still need to add borders and line them.
No, I don't need anymore Projects!! Still have a baby quilt for the new grandson to think about too.....and maybe re decorate the basement bedroom......
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Post by sorcha on Jun 4, 2009 21:09:44 GMT
Managed to get a coat of poly on the floor, and bought the peel and stick tiles for upstairs. Can't find the 'jungle print' fabric I want for the basement....I'm thinking parrots and macaws....LOL
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Post by ragdall on Jun 5, 2009 6:00:54 GMT
Hi sorcha, Yes, DIY projects are definitely counted. Wow! You sure accomplish a lot. Good luck finding the jungle fabric. Can you order that sort of thing online?
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Post by jennieg on Jul 2, 2009 6:31:33 GMT
I have finished a small project - a Maple Leaf table runner. It was made so we could celebrate Canada Day yesterday in true Canadian style, which we did with pancakes and maple syrup! Pics on my blog: bronzewombat.blogspot.com/Now to get on with putting together blocks for bushfire victims, some friends overseas have sent me lovely blocks to make into quilt tops which I will send (with their backing fabrics) to be quilted and passed on to their new owners.
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