Costume Project: Wisteria Fox Day 4

There's a saying in carpentry. Measure twice, cut once. It's so true for any cutting as it turns out. Oh, I should say that today I cut out the pattern pieces in fabric. Most of them.

You would think this is enough fabric!

Unfortunately, the fabric I got was actually NOT a continuous 7 yards. Which kind of worked out sort of. If I was not making this a lined kimono then this would have been enough. However, the other trouble was because I mixed patterns and made a miscalculation. I followed the suggested layout for the McCall's pattern since I was only using the sleeves of the other Simplicity pattern.

Using these sleeves.

The size of the Simplicity brand sleeves was longer than the McCall's sleeves. So while I used the body of the McCall's pattern and the layout would have worked for all that, I ended up not having enough fabric for everything.

What I did manage to cut out were the outer pieces for the main body of the kimono, the "contrasting" neck piece, and one sleeve. I managed to make the lining for the main body with a big of fudging and lining for one sleeve.

There was one pattern piece for the lining that I had to make into two pieces instead of a continuous piece. I'll have to sew it back together during construction but it's the lining...so should be okay.

For now I've ordered one more yard of Peachskin fabric so I can make the lining and outer part of the other sleeve.

The other thing I did was cut out the fox shape that will become an applique.

Simple fox shape.

Things have a lot of chalk marks at the moment.

Next steps include:

Cutting out the other sleeve and sleeve lining
Painting parts of the fox applique (Nose, Eyes, Eyebrow, Ear Tips, Tail Tip)
Dyeing the collar Green
Dyeing the kimono body and sleeves in a gradient purple.
Finding Fabric or Paint to make the flames

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