The other dye showed up this morning. Currently the fabric is in a wash cycle having already had it’s blue-green bath. It looks kind of bright, but I won’t know until it’s dry in another hour or so.
A cold autumn rain / tapping on the window sill / keeping me from sleep / the sky weeps for fallen leaves, / unabashed melancholy
The rain this morning around three launched me out of bed until I wrote that poem. The rain has since given way to snow and wind. And I finally made it Facebook Official, so I’ll say the same here, I intend to keep up daily tanka for at least a year. That also gives me something to share daily after I finish the travelling outfit and before I move on to the hitatare kamishimo (that’s a men’s ensemble).
The okumi overlap panels were finished last night, and today I’ve been working on a lovely rolled hem while attending a few classes at a virtual SCA event.
Moment of truth for the fabric…nope. It’s noticeably different. The first round of dye was done with old dye, and I suppose that is what caused such a difference. There was also about a yard and a half less in this batch. It is a pretty color. It’ll get used for something else.
I have enough scrap fabric to make one sleeve and can turn the piece that was to be the collar into the other sleeve. I’ll use one of the okumi off cuts for the collar. This is the only way to complete the garment. It means I have to hem the sleeves and collar instead of using the selvage edges. Boo. Unless I enlarge the sleeves…it was done. Eh. I think I’ll just keep the miscut sleeves in case I decide in the future to lengthen them. And by lengthen I mean the dimension moving from the shoulder to the wrist horizontally across the arm. Heian ladies were known to exaggerate their sleeves, to the point that some ladies had their sleeves on only one side cut extra large for hanging out of carriage windows. I believe Sei Shonagon of Pillow Book fame lists this as a distasteful thing.
