Completed sewing projects
Jan. 2nd, 2014 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asthranWell, I've pretty much finished my sewing projects. I was not able to make the blue chemise. I haven't found any medium shades of blue gauze and I really don't want to dye big-ish things in my house, since it almost doubles my project time. I also didn't get to make my silk cotehardie (or 14th century under-gown, or whatever you want to call it) - I vastly underestimated how much material I had. If it have been 60" material I could have reduced the gown's fullness a bit and made do, but alas, it was only 45" wide.
My cotton cotehardie came out pretty well. I copied the pattern based on the "large," because Swedes are tall and skinny, and that was what was recommended for my measurements. I kept it on a hanger for two weeks during the Armadillo - entirely unintentional, but very good for stretching out the bias! I took it in a bit at the sides, wrists, and at the hem (a lot at the hem!), then flat felled everything that wasn't a rolled hem.
The gloves were the most exciting part of my sewing. Because I was cutting up pre-existing items, that took a lot of trepidation out of it - I was worried about teeny tiny seam allowances. I really like how they look, and they are totally different from anything else out there at the moment - plenty of people have handflower/slave bracelets that go from multiple rings to the wrist, and plenty of people have fingerless hand/wrist warmers, but almost no one has palmless gloves, and no one has them like I do. Except, of course, for Nina de Lianin. They still need some work - I need to make the pieces that cross the back of the hand out of something stretchy or elastic, and I probably need to relearn how to properly sew such materials.
The bustle-skirt was slow and frustrating, starting at the fabric store - they had organza in plum and a bright, almost fushia, purple, neither of which were a good shade for me. So I hemmed and hawed, and looked around some more, and did that maybe 3 more times, then found the right shade of purple organza shelved with some navy things! Yay! Then construction was of course a lot of gathering and pinning, and lots of uncertainty about if I was making things well. I ended up making the front of the skirt ankle-length, then extending the skirt into a train in the back. Then the front was pleated up to about 8" long, and the center back got tacked up to the waistband. I don't know if it could properly be called a bustle, but I'll let wiser minds than I let me know what they think.
My cotton cotehardie came out pretty well. I copied the pattern based on the "large," because Swedes are tall and skinny, and that was what was recommended for my measurements. I kept it on a hanger for two weeks during the Armadillo - entirely unintentional, but very good for stretching out the bias! I took it in a bit at the sides, wrists, and at the hem (a lot at the hem!), then flat felled everything that wasn't a rolled hem.
The gloves were the most exciting part of my sewing. Because I was cutting up pre-existing items, that took a lot of trepidation out of it - I was worried about teeny tiny seam allowances. I really like how they look, and they are totally different from anything else out there at the moment - plenty of people have handflower/slave bracelets that go from multiple rings to the wrist, and plenty of people have fingerless hand/wrist warmers, but almost no one has palmless gloves, and no one has them like I do. Except, of course, for Nina de Lianin. They still need some work - I need to make the pieces that cross the back of the hand out of something stretchy or elastic, and I probably need to relearn how to properly sew such materials.
The bustle-skirt was slow and frustrating, starting at the fabric store - they had organza in plum and a bright, almost fushia, purple, neither of which were a good shade for me. So I hemmed and hawed, and looked around some more, and did that maybe 3 more times, then found the right shade of purple organza shelved with some navy things! Yay! Then construction was of course a lot of gathering and pinning, and lots of uncertainty about if I was making things well. I ended up making the front of the skirt ankle-length, then extending the skirt into a train in the back. Then the front was pleated up to about 8" long, and the center back got tacked up to the waistband. I don't know if it could properly be called a bustle, but I'll let wiser minds than I let me know what they think.
