Wisteria Fox: Day 12 Tail!

Made the tail. Finished hand sewing the sleeves and I'm not 100% happy with them but I also don't want to futz with them anymore. I just won't make future sleeves in the same way.

How the tail will work is this. I'm using the default nylon webbing belt that it came with. The obi will fit over it.

Things are really coming together quickly now. The only things left are details. I'm going to hand paint wisteria flowers onto the kimono. But I'd like to use stencils for some of the parts. I found some vector graphics and made files for my 3D printer. This past weekend I ran some tests with the newly armed 3D printer/cutter. Unfortunately, it is not ready to cut vinyl or paper at this time. The bed on my 3D printer is not level and no matter how I fiddle with it, some parts of it remain uneven. (Likely a bit of warping or something. Hot metal can do that.) So I'm looking into getting a CR Touch to auto-level my 3D printer. Which will help in the long run.

In the meantime, I'm thinking about how I want the painted pattern to flow and how I want to paint the mask.

Lastly, I have some ribbon to make another kanzashi hairpiece. I want to make a slightly bigger one to cover my human ear since my hair is shorter on one side. Other than that, just need to make the adjustments to the parasol and set up a photo booth. OH...and think about makeup design.

Still knitting the shawl too. Starting on the 3rd wedge. (I think there needs to be like 8. So...man...wish I was a bit more productive on that but...it is looking good.)

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