Posts Tagged ‘13th century’
It’s not FINISHED finished, but it is all assembled. And suffering from “looks better on a person than the dress form” disease, but you will get the idea.
For this gown, I tried something new in terms of the neckline – I made bias tape and finished the neckline with it. Since it’s a keyhole neckline, I had to miter the corners, and I even did it correctly on the first try! (Hooray, I get to pass ninth grade geometry!)
In general, I like [...]
The fabric that I’m working with is still annoying, and the results are still beautiful. I have the neckline finished (stay tuned for a post just about the neckline, once I’ve taken pictures of it), both sleeves put in, and the gores and side seam done on one side. There’s a LOT of skirt, and [...]
This evening I cut out HRH’s gown and put together the front & back panels with their gores, cut the neckline, and assembled the sleeves. OK, when I write it that way, it doesn’t seem like all that much for two hours of work. The cutting took me about half an hour. As I was [...]
I finished up Liadain’s underdress last night during textile guild. Hooray!
Here’s a sampling of what the finished seams look like. The shoulder seams were on the selvedge, so I didn’t bother to fell them, I just laid them flat and stitched them down.
I ALWAYS seem to mess up when I fell the [...]
The sleeves were too narrow – fine on top, but not big enough just below the elbow. So I ripped out the old ones and cut entirely new ones. I COULD have just used a teenytiny seam allowance and made the old ones work, but those sleeves are a good size for me, so I’ll [...]
I finally got a picture of Shoshanna in her striped woolen cyclas that she’s had for several months. That plus a brief description are here.
The plan for textile guild this month was for Irene to talk about patterning garments out of Patterns of Fashion and for me to talk about making late 12th – early 14th century clothes. When we asked for head counts it looked like there were going to be a bunch of people for her [...]
