More progress... eventually.

Slept until ashitara called me for tennis after all, and then we had a fun afternoon of sampling dramas and watching one movie. "Hana and Alice" which was cute but... lacked focus.

After dinner, I finally got started on some sewing. I got the chest binder finished first, and while it needs a bit more attention for me to be completely happy with it, I'm glad to have it. (It does actually work extremely well, even without straps, and is fairly comfortable to wear as well. Definitely beats the crap out of ace bandages. ^_^)

I sketched the pants and went ahead with cutting them... but after some basic construction, I'm afraid that they're too small. I'm going to sleep on it before I decide to re-cut, since I barely have enough for another pair. My eyes keep playing tricks with the color of the fabric, making sections look faded, but hopefully if it's true it won't show under the kimono anyway.

(I started watching Project Runway season one tonight. Bad idea. It makes me want to talk at length about all my various design and construction thoughts. Sorry that you all on LJ get subjected to it. >.>)

Not counting any chickens yet...

There hasn't been a banquet yet after all.
But looking things over, I'm only about one button hole and some ribbon away from finished with Izayoiki Masaomi. The con is just under two weeks away. This is mind-boggling.
Masaomi could be 100% wearable /tomorrow/ if needed.
I can make Benkei's obi tomorrow, no problem, the only rough thing left will be if I decide to re-make the cloak, though I got Violet Casa Satin for the new applique in case I do, and I know more about stabilizing and thread tension now. The rest shouldn't be too bad, but time consuming to figure out the proper form for a hood to make it look like his does.
The other thing I /might/ decide to do is open and line the sleeves on Saku's inner kimono. I don't have quite enough of the fabric that I want though, so that may continue to be put off for another time.