Just days to go
Aug. 15th, 2011 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abendgules ...and we'll be back to Raglan, our favourite event.
I've made pretty good progress on planned items.
- After something of a layoff from scribing, I ploughed through 3 scrolls worth of callig yesterday, and planned out one more with Robert. More perg-cutting to come this evening; then illumination Tues or Wed.
- The new floorcloth is painted but not yet sewn, and still needs a bag. Stupidly ambitious patterned design will have to wait. Finishing sewing to come.
- I managed to draft sleeves and add them to an existing gown, though they're a bit big, and I've debated fixing them (which of course would mean a lot of unpicking...). So far, laziness has won out over insistence on perfection. The easing to get them to fit is less noticeable when I'm wearing the gown!
- the sideless surcoat is *almost* finished - I'm down to the neckline, and the hem.
For such a simple gown, I've spent a lot of time on this sideless surcoat/cyclas. I'm trying to get the Luttrell Psalter look - low, near-horizontal neckline; open armholes that are long, rather than deeply cut into the front/back of the gown; a generous hem.
I used my existing herald's cyclas, taking a pattern from it, then drawing out another version, and making a muslin of the neckline and armholes.
This wool frays something wicked - it's a beautiful colour, and drape, but a nightmare of threads dropping from raw edges. So I needed French seams on all the seams joining two pieces.
The curse of French seams is that they make you think you're working on the outside, when in fact you're on the inside of the garment, and vice-versa. I'd almost gotten all the way through my French seams on this item without having to undo any seams - usually I have to 'pay' with at least one seam done twice - and was feeling really pleased with myself....sigh.
Robert salvaged my surcoat at midpoint when I discovered I'd very carefully stitched the lining to the wrong side of the outer fabric - complete with clipped seams and curves.
I find unpicking really disheartening, especially after a hours of work. My sweetie picked it up from where, after several loud Sewing Words (bit like Computer Words) I'd dropped my surcoat in frustration, unpicked the offending lining pieces, and pinned them all back on the correct side. Bless him.
I've made pretty good progress on planned items.
- After something of a layoff from scribing, I ploughed through 3 scrolls worth of callig yesterday, and planned out one more with Robert. More perg-cutting to come this evening; then illumination Tues or Wed.
- The new floorcloth is painted but not yet sewn, and still needs a bag. Stupidly ambitious patterned design will have to wait. Finishing sewing to come.
- I managed to draft sleeves and add them to an existing gown, though they're a bit big, and I've debated fixing them (which of course would mean a lot of unpicking...). So far, laziness has won out over insistence on perfection. The easing to get them to fit is less noticeable when I'm wearing the gown!
- the sideless surcoat is *almost* finished - I'm down to the neckline, and the hem.
For such a simple gown, I've spent a lot of time on this sideless surcoat/cyclas. I'm trying to get the Luttrell Psalter look - low, near-horizontal neckline; open armholes that are long, rather than deeply cut into the front/back of the gown; a generous hem.
I used my existing herald's cyclas, taking a pattern from it, then drawing out another version, and making a muslin of the neckline and armholes.
This wool frays something wicked - it's a beautiful colour, and drape, but a nightmare of threads dropping from raw edges. So I needed French seams on all the seams joining two pieces.
The curse of French seams is that they make you think you're working on the outside, when in fact you're on the inside of the garment, and vice-versa. I'd almost gotten all the way through my French seams on this item without having to undo any seams - usually I have to 'pay' with at least one seam done twice - and was feeling really pleased with myself....sigh.
Robert salvaged my surcoat at midpoint when I discovered I'd very carefully stitched the lining to the wrong side of the outer fabric - complete with clipped seams and curves.
I find unpicking really disheartening, especially after a hours of work. My sweetie picked it up from where, after several loud Sewing Words (bit like Computer Words) I'd dropped my surcoat in frustration, unpicked the offending lining pieces, and pinned them all back on the correct side. Bless him.
