Rarely-worn Wool + Kitten Hijinks

 

A rarely-worn wool hitoe kimono that I love, but it's a strange, busy pattern for me. I'm usually so plain for myself but I love patterns like this on objects and other people. So I need to learn to wear them on myself for once and kimono are perfect for breaking that mold, right?

I love the deep blue background and the bright fire flowers and mustard yellows, the brilliant oranges, the pastel purples... these are beautiful! I kind of wish I had a different obiage to wear it with? But the shibori texture visually makes sense. It's just too formal for the komon status.

It was a surprise though. It works quite well with another piece I've been sitting on for a few year that I thought I'd never find a good match for. I've worn this obi before with a plain blue summer kimono but it wasn't a good match. Orange obijime. But I don't think it was correct... I think other options are fine here. I just need to work on them, just like finding a kimono to work with the obi. It takes time. The two red sets seem to work well here, though. I think the purple I have that matches would disappear on the deep black background of the obi,but a pale purple that matches the kimono is too soft for the obi motifs. Don't have yellow, don't have brilliant blue (and is that too much blue?) Lime green maybe? Feels like too much as well. That's why I did orange last time. Not white. I don't know.

As a bonus, here's some Binx hijinks! Binx is a kitten that is temporarily staying with us. We can't keep her. She's DH's friends' cat. It's just an issue of affording another cat and, most importantly, her vet care. 

Also we don't have another cat "available" on our lease, so. Uh. ... IDK. But mostly, she has a double-fang, where the adult fang is coming in and the old one won't come out. She's got a bad rot in between them and there's signs of redness in the gums, possibly infection. So we don't have the money for extractions (over $1000.) The only way to save her would be to give her to an org that swears to adopt her out and get her care, either themselves or under a future owner, if she isn't taken back by the friend soon. She's a sweetheart, but sadly we can't keep her. Alex is SO in love with her, or I would.