Sunday, 7 April 2013

Clara Weather Charm

Hello everybody!
Have you heard of "Kuragehime" (meaning "Jellyfish Princess") by Higashimura Akiko?
It is a great manga that combines otaku with fashion and business-spirit in a very humorous way. The drawing style is also really good! If you like the genre slice of life, I really recommend reading this or watching the anime (which only shows the first part of the story, but is also very light and full of loughs).
This awesome manga served me as inspiration in making my first weather charm. And here it is:


my own interpretation of Clara, the jellyfish (also the mascot of "Kuragehime").

It is made out of some old pieces of white and pink cloth and the eyes and mouth are painted with fabric paint. There is also a trick of sewing the "neck" twice in order to get the head in the shape of a slightly squished sphere (an oblate spheroid) and the body as thin as possible right below the pink fabric.
Well, I don't know if this is what the author Higashimura Akiko had in mind when she thought Clara up, but this is the best I could do with my sewing skills.
Either way, the weather charm did actually make the latest days more sunny (although still a bit too cold for my taste).


Have nice and sunny spring days everyone!

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