It was already / Later than I had hoped / And my muse spoke not / I let the silence whisper / Inspiration in her stead
Finally.
I finished hemming the second okumi, overlap panel, tonight. I expect things to start to progress rapidly from here. This step was a time sink. Yet another reason to try not to ever do it again.
Hindsight being 20/20, I’ve already figured out how I could have avoided hemming the okumi during layout this time. Not super helpful until I make another kosode with the same width fabric. The next garment, the hitoe, needs selvage edges for the sleeves and the overlap panels in order to avoid hemming work.
And I still haven’t settled on how to finish the seams.
Tomorrow I’ll start in on the steps I outlined for the okumi attachment in yesterday’s post.
