I spent all day Saturday making (and fixing) Theo's outfit. Story time. I used babytarragon's tutorial (on DoA; need a free subscription to view), but made both the kimono and yukata out of pillowcases. I will definitely do this again, but suffice it to say I learned a few lessons from this. First lesson: read all the instructions before cutting anything. Second lesson: pay attention to where your fabric is before cutting anything. I'll admit it, I have a terrible habit when it comes to sewing projects. I get a little scissor happy. And this cost me. My first mistake (even though I didn't figure it out until I'd made the second mistake) was not doubling the torso width of my piece. I thought it looked much too skinny, but I thought maybe the collar would help widen it. I was wrong. I just missed a step, like a dork. My second mistake, and the one that I'm still smacking myself in the forehead over, was that I cut the V for the neck out of both front and back pieces, because I had the fabric folded over. I ended up sewing a triangle into the back panel and it looked ridiculous. Somewhat fortunately, it looks slightly less ridiculous now, since once I put it on Theo and realized how tiny it was I cut out the entire back panel and sewed in a new, slightly larger one to make it big enough to at least connect in the front. It looks all right with the yukata underneath, but it's very tight. In the future, I would also cut the sleeves separately and attach them as per the tutorial, both so I don't have the funky underarm thing Theo's got going on, and so there's no tacky seam on the arm.
I am, however, proud of the random knot I pulled off for Mi'kael's hakama. I totally just whinged that.
Anyway, we had a blast. Hope got his jointed hands (I'm working on stretching them out a bit so they're less snappy, and I want to get some shoots of him talking with them), and Theo and Mi'kael got a lot of attention and time at the tiny goban. I swear, I was going through some of these photos and forgot that it wasn't a full-sized board. The stones were super hard to place, and it was also hard to gauge a 2 or 3-point jump because the spacing is so off when you're used to looking at a full-sized board. I have this trouble with my half-sized board sometimes, but it was even more of a challenge on this one! We used some historical games from the giant book of them the SGC has on the shelf. I can't remember the one Theo and Mik are playing, but tenuki and I played out a bit in the corner after M and I placed the game (the bit Mi'kael is so puzzled about, in his lower left corner. He's definitely dead there. "How did that happen?" he's wondering. He resigned).
The tatami room was very popular, and a fun place for a lot of photoshoots. I hope we get the chance to host another meet here sometime!
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