I worked on Fan's kimono again last night but I didn't accomplish much since I was fiddling around with some of the photo options on the new computer. I took a photo of Fan (right) just to see how well the built-in camera works. What do you think? Yes, I know it's a mirror image of the canvas. I can't find how to change that in my fancy new photo editing software.
Back to the kimono. The whole thing has a very thin black outline around each arm. The body is divided from the sleeve by it, for example. I've held back stitching the column that this outline on the body until I get the sleeve done, then I will be able to see where the two columns meet exactly and plan how I compensate each area's column where the two meet.
Once the whole thing is stitched, I might do a few back stitches here and there to reinforce the lines, but that needs to wait until the end. Butterfly's face has a pink backstitch outline and I think Fan's left sleeve might need some around the bottom rounded edge. I'm not going to decide until I have everything stitched on Fan. Anyone who has done a lot of XS will know exactly how this is done, but basically you just backstitch a line right over the border between the two areas that seems to need a little definition.
