I finished my tekkou today. Let's cut right to the chase!
So the push-button fastening method didn't work in my taste so I had to cut yet another tekkou, boy I've screwed up two now... oh well, this time it went well so it's ok, practice makes perfect.
I won't show you again the first steps of tekkou making because those have been described in part 1 and 2 already. But after I had cut out and decoration stitched around a new tekkou and folded in the sides I went and got the leather fabric again and drew two 50 cm long and 2,5 cm wide ties on the wrong side of the fabric with an ink pen. I made sure to check that the fabric stretched horizontally so that the ties would stretch a bit if needed. I used one tie per tekkou.
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| I've drawn out the ties... |
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| Cut them out |
After that I just made a middle fold on both the tekkou and on the middle of the ties and sewed them on. I just made a single straight vertical seam on the middle of the tie.
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| Testing it on.. ties are just wrapped around once and tucked under |
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| No retarded side buttons hihi |
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| And they overlap closer to the middle, yay! (I didn't bother to get them to be aligned lol) |
Now there was only left to do that finger ring thingy. Mom earlier got the idea that I could use two of those curtain ring hanger thingies if I just removed that hanging clip part. Easily done.
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| Former curtain rings, they'll soon get a new more exciting use ~ |
I made a small loop for the rings to go through and hand-sewed it to the underside of the tekkou. Machine sewing won't work for obvious reasons...
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| Hand-sew to and fro for strength |
After that I was pretty much finished. Yay, no more errors! I'm glad my "use ties to fasten" idea worked as well as it did, when I do it my way it doesn't derp ~ *coughyeahrightcough* Well, not always as this proved! D:
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| Finished product (sorry it bunches, it does that if I move my hand certain angles) |
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| Under arm <3 |
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| Finished tekkou, front and back side |
Hmm... what's next? Probably make the blue kimono ~
