Shoshanna and I will be at Aethelmearc coronation next weekend, and we’re counting on the weather being coolish. Since her brown flannel tunic is getting too small on her and I’m not sure that the cotton smock, red linen tunic, and coat will not be enough. I had been intending to make her a tunic or cyclas to match our brown wool striped ones and this seemed like a good time. So last night I cut it out and sewed the gores together; I had forgotten just how ravelly the wool is so I felled them open. And since each gore is 4 pieces, that was a lot of seaming and felling. This morning I cut out the neck and the facing. Since I did the seam finishes on the machine I’ll probably just do the whole thing by machine, which I rarely do.
I’m hoping that this will fit her for a good long time, so I made the gores really wide across the top to give it a lot of room in the body – I’ll try it on her and if it’s WAY too huge I’ll put a quick pleat into the top of each of the gores to take it in before I face the arm openings.
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