Aha!

Now I can actually return to thinking about making stuff for ME!!! Considering that artier than thou post I made to SCA-Waste about stuff makin', I it behooves me to make stuff. Tomorrow I'd like to work on a new banner, seeing as my badge has passed and all....

While looking for something else before Estrella, I rediscovered some brown linen I think I bought at Pennsic three summers ago. It washed up beautifully and has the sort of heft that cries out to be made into hakama. I haven't done boy clothes in a bit and a spiffy kataginu kamishimo that pairs beautifully with the plaid "tablecloth" kosode or the cream and tan horizontally striped one would be just the thing for Mists Cynagua War.

Then there was the mystery hunk of two yards of white silk noil. Unless an unrevealed multiple personality went fabric shopping without my knowledge, I have no remembrance of where it came from. I cannot imagine having bought it knowingly because noil is made of trash fibers and feels like cheap, badly pilled cotton flannel and I don't care for it. However, it is silk, which will take the dyes I have under the kitchen sink, and I've been meaning to return to experimenting with shibori for a bit. So I flipped through Wada*** and found an example of miru shibori dating from the Kamakura period. And given the fact that a couple of court members had asked about doing kosode/mobakama ensembles, I'm thinking miru shibori would be a cute way to decorate a mobakama, which would take about, yes, two yards of fabric.
(***melaniewing , you are going to LOVE this book once your copy arrives.)