Archive for May, 2008
Where small is defined as “not as big as a gown”. Tonight was textile guild at my house, so I pulled out the brown hosen to work on.
But before I talk about that, here’s a picture of the pattern. Somewhere in my sewing room I have five yards of muslin that I [...]
I have been hard at work writing up a handout on how I make cut hosen. It will be done soon, I hope. (I always have trouble figuring out if my explanations are going to make sense to anybody but me.) I needed to check my process (it’s been a year since I made any [...]
Over the past several days I’ve pressed the wool and the damask for the mauve gown, and sorted through the cut damask pieces to see what would work and what wouldn’t. As it turns out, the damask gores, sleeves, and gussets weren’t anywhere near the right size, so I used the gores to cut the [...]
I cut out the mauve gown tonight. I’m trying a couple of experiments with this one. More than a couple, actually.
-> Button cuffs. I’ve done stuffed buttons before, so this isn’t totally new to me, but I’ve never done buttoned cuffs before.
-> Actual math… usually I don’t try to factor in [...]
