Some brief updates
First... thanks to a friend on my needlework BB, I'm getting some code help, and this place will soon get tidied up a little. No major redecorating (though she offered!), but a few structural additions. Fun, fun. When I can wrap my brain around the information she sent me. :)
Second... thanks to more friends on that same BB, I have decided to line the Ren-Friendly Rainwear in color! I'm thinking that the navy blue wants some sort of deep fuchsia (the trim, which is gorgeous, has fuchsia in it). This will also coordinate wonderfully with a certain beautiful hat.... Still undecided on the other colors. It looks like I'm going to have to order the lining (from the same place I got my Coriander), so that'll take a couple of weeks to get here. And fair starts in 3. Ack.
Lastly... I have finally, after *weeks* (no, months in fact. No... actually, about 2 years) of thinking about it, figured out exactly how I'm going to make the doublet! I'll be using Butterick 4574 almost exclusively, but with a straighter cut front and a band collar. I was really intrigued by this doublet from House of Anoria, but after much soul-searching as I was cutting out pattern pieces, decided that that waist seam was going to make my model's fitting issues too hard (for me, at my skill level) to deal with. Alas. But I think that the free form of the Butterick doublet (really more of a jerkin) will make it much more forgiving, on both of us.
I've also been *hugely* inspired by the work of Baroness Doune, especially this doublet she made for her husband. I love the silhouette of it, as well as the turned-back "lapels." I think I can work with something like that, and even better, I think I've figured out how to do it! So I have half the pattern pieces cut out, and had better go do the rest, if I want to get them ironed tonight.
Anyway, I am *determined* to get SOMETHING done this season! Sure, I have that new black bodice, but I'm really not all that thrilled with it.
Well... off to snip pattern pieces, iron pattern pieces, and then decide if I need to do more revision tonight or not.
Second... thanks to more friends on that same BB, I have decided to line the Ren-Friendly Rainwear in color! I'm thinking that the navy blue wants some sort of deep fuchsia (the trim, which is gorgeous, has fuchsia in it). This will also coordinate wonderfully with a certain beautiful hat.... Still undecided on the other colors. It looks like I'm going to have to order the lining (from the same place I got my Coriander), so that'll take a couple of weeks to get here. And fair starts in 3. Ack.
Lastly... I have finally, after *weeks* (no, months in fact. No... actually, about 2 years) of thinking about it, figured out exactly how I'm going to make the doublet! I'll be using Butterick 4574 almost exclusively, but with a straighter cut front and a band collar. I was really intrigued by this doublet from House of Anoria, but after much soul-searching as I was cutting out pattern pieces, decided that that waist seam was going to make my model's fitting issues too hard (for me, at my skill level) to deal with. Alas. But I think that the free form of the Butterick doublet (really more of a jerkin) will make it much more forgiving, on both of us.
I've also been *hugely* inspired by the work of Baroness Doune, especially this doublet she made for her husband. I love the silhouette of it, as well as the turned-back "lapels." I think I can work with something like that, and even better, I think I've figured out how to do it! So I have half the pattern pieces cut out, and had better go do the rest, if I want to get them ironed tonight.
Anyway, I am *determined* to get SOMETHING done this season! Sure, I have that new black bodice, but I'm really not all that thrilled with it.
Well... off to snip pattern pieces, iron pattern pieces, and then decide if I need to do more revision tonight or not.
posted by Elizabeth Bunce | 10:12 PM
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