{"id":14204,"date":"2026-05-08T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=14204"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:35:43","slug":"go-habs-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/go-habs-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Habs Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing you may not know about me is that I am descended from hockey royalty. Newsy Lalonde<\/a> was my great-grandfather. While this isn’t something that generally overlaps with my kimono interests, sometimes a girl’s just got to represent hometown and familial pride, in the form of a coordination evoking the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> team colours. Especially now that we’ve made it into series two of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Go Habs Go! Tricolore jusqu’au bout!*\u00a0<\/em> I’d originally planned to put this up before Series 2 Game 1 on Wednesday but was feeling under the weather, so I’m making sure it goes up before Game 2.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sadly, I don’t have any hockey-themed accessories, and I don’t think my father would be too thrilled with me using things like his grandfather’s Hockey Hall of Fame<\/a> ring as an obi-kazari, so I had to work with the “tricolore” (three colours) emblematic of the Habs \u2014 red, with blue and white as accents. Our primary jersey colour is, of course, a nice bright red, and as is standard in the NHL the away jersey is white so of course this red-and-white yagasuri komon was the perfect base. I just always forget how danged huge it is, which makes putting it on the mannequin a little awkward. It also looks a bit pinker in these photos; blame the light in my room. In person it’s definitely a true red.<\/p>\n

Sadly I don’t have any obi that are quite the right shades of blue, but this one works pretty well. I tied it in a karuta musubi because the square shape with the red and white lines of the obijime reminds me a bit of an ice rink, if you squint! There’s no significance to the cat motif, I was just going for colour cohesion. It does tie in nicely with the blues and white and the motif on the haneri though, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\t\t