Mini sideless surcoat
I've put my sideless surcoat away for the moment, to work on the other half of my outfit plans for Elfia Haarzuilens - my niece's outfit! I'm making a medieval dress and sideless surcoat for her as well, in the same colours as mine though inverted. So her sideless surcoat will be purple, and her under dress blue.
The sideless surcoat is more or less in one piece, I just need to attach the shoulders and cut the neckline but I'm waiting until I'm sure I know how I want to do the trim - bias tape or gold ribbon. My underdress has gold ribbon as trim, so that would be a nice symmetry, but bias tape will be easier to construct.
While that's percolating I've moved on to her underdress. All the pieces have been cut and are awaiting finishing before I can sew it all together. Yesterday I prepared the sleeves, which because she wants a slit with buttons on her forearm had to be in two pieces each, and the trim has to be attached before I construct the entire thing (trust me, you don't want to do that when the sleeves are attached!). I had found this adorable flower ribbon (at my local Xenos, even) and because it was cheap grabbed 6m of it. It wasn't even until Friday that I thought of using it on this dress, but it looks so cute!
Me trying out the two trims before actually settling on doing it like this.
Sleeve #1 constructed. It's only missing the buttons and the gores for the armscythe.
The sideless surcoat, all the pieces attached except for the shoulders.
The surcoat is lined with synthetic satin to avoid it sticking to the underdress, just like mine is. On the underdress I'm finishing all the pieces with a (cheating) rolled hem* before construction, so that construction just becomes a matter of sewing up everything with simple seams.
I still have two months, so I'd say I'm well on track. I just really really hope it fits her, because I don't think we can swing a fitting in between...
*It's only folded once, because I underestimated my ability to fold a rolled hem twice and still have only 1cm seam allowance :/. It should look nice enough, though, and I'm using a zigzag stitch so that will help against fraying too. And let's be honest, chances are she'll wear this outfit only once anyway. ^_^;
The sideless surcoat is more or less in one piece, I just need to attach the shoulders and cut the neckline but I'm waiting until I'm sure I know how I want to do the trim - bias tape or gold ribbon. My underdress has gold ribbon as trim, so that would be a nice symmetry, but bias tape will be easier to construct.
While that's percolating I've moved on to her underdress. All the pieces have been cut and are awaiting finishing before I can sew it all together. Yesterday I prepared the sleeves, which because she wants a slit with buttons on her forearm had to be in two pieces each, and the trim has to be attached before I construct the entire thing (trust me, you don't want to do that when the sleeves are attached!). I had found this adorable flower ribbon (at my local Xenos, even) and because it was cheap grabbed 6m of it. It wasn't even until Friday that I thought of using it on this dress, but it looks so cute!
Me trying out the two trims before actually settling on doing it like this.
Sleeve #1 constructed. It's only missing the buttons and the gores for the armscythe.
The sideless surcoat, all the pieces attached except for the shoulders.
The surcoat is lined with synthetic satin to avoid it sticking to the underdress, just like mine is. On the underdress I'm finishing all the pieces with a (cheating) rolled hem* before construction, so that construction just becomes a matter of sewing up everything with simple seams.
I still have two months, so I'd say I'm well on track. I just really really hope it fits her, because I don't think we can swing a fitting in between...
*It's only folded once, because I underestimated my ability to fold a rolled hem twice and still have only 1cm seam allowance :/. It should look nice enough, though, and I'm using a zigzag stitch so that will help against fraying too. And let's be honest, chances are she'll wear this outfit only once anyway. ^_^;