I don't know why accepting a commission makes me so mental, but it does. Maybe because I'm afraid the person won't like the final result. Anyway, I'd promised to come up with a pair of "fighter pants" for one of the Estrella Rising Sun guys, basically a pair of tattsukebakama (aka "ninja pants") with a velcro closure instead of hakama ties, for under armor wear. I said I'd make them in any color I could find except black (it's too damn hard to see what I'm doing on black any more!), and quoted him a price dependent on Cheap Cotton Duck from Walmart, delivery to be made at Estrella (where I can peel it back off him and make adjustments if necessary).
Anyway, I got up this morning and started cutting them out, only to discover that shrinkage in the wash meant an emergency run to the Walmart where I bought the duck in the first place. Fortunately they still had plenty on the bolt and I was able to get home and get the extra bit washed and dried while I worked on the part I could cut out. A few hours later, I just have to pleat the tops into the waistband and pleat the legs into the kyahan.
I have NARA SHOES!!!!
I had to think a bit about size and shape. I was waiting for my nabe-udon leftovers to reheat and found myself staring at a wooden kitchen spoon in the utensil bucket and it was just the right shape and size.... I know. My mind is a weird place.
The toe ornaments are sewn and glued onto the shoes. I discovered after I started sewing the first one onto the toe of the shoe, it was causing the fabric to lift off from where it had been glued. So I finished stitching along the front edge of the sole, reglued that edge down. Then I put some glue onto the point of the toe, pressed the "flower" back into it until the glue had hardened and ran another line of glue along the top of the shoe where it met the back of the shoe. After that was dry, I added a few stitches along that upper line as well. We'll see how they hold up.
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