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The Kappa In Japanese Folklore

  • Kappas are legendary creatures that inhabit the rivers and waterways of Japan. They have beaked noses, shells on their back and a depression on their heads that holds water. Kappa are mischievous troublemakers. Their pranks range from the relatively innocent, such as loudly passing gas or looking up women's kimonos, to the more troublesome such as drowning swimmers and eating children. They feed on their victims by sucking their liver though their anus. They love cucumbers and if you write your name on a cucumber and throw it in the river, the kappa may be appeased by your gift and allow you to swim in peace.

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November 03, 2009

Sewing Disasters

I've been slowly working on this embroidery for a few months ago, it's heavily inspired by this t-shirt at Threadless.com.

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The embroidery isn't the disaster, it turned out great and Ivy loves it. The disaster is the fact that the bodice is too tight--a problem I've never had before, usually I'm so worried about making something too small I make it huge. Ivy has some clothing that she's been able to wear for 3 years. I'm not sure what I did wrong on this--maybe traced the wrong size? It was from one of my Japanese books and sometimes all those lines make my eyes feel wonky. So now I don't know what to do with it. Because of the way I had the embroidery follow the line of the bodice I can't turn it into an embroidered patch on something else. I'm sure there's a way to fix it but for right now I'm so frustrated and annoyed that I've put it away in a cupboard, I need to not look at it for a few days. Or weeks.

Posted at 11:47 PM |

Comments

Katherine

Oh that is a disaster. If you just add on a side patch under the arm, and one at the tops of the shoulders you should be able to salvage it though, right?

Posted by: Katherine | November 24, 2009 at 04:24 PM

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