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Making a 17th century shirt, part 3- Setting the sleeves and gussets
Cross-posted to own journal
The shirt is nearing its completion, the only thing left are the cuffs. The sleeves are very wide with only a portion of that gathered at the top of the shoulder. As with the collar, the body of the shirt is top-stitched to the sleeves.
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Making a 17th century shirt, part 1
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Bring on the Fambly Silver!
This time in dress form...
( Once more with feeling... ) -
One Musketeer Lady To Go!
Progress at last! With Christmas out of the way and a couple of days wedged in between that and going away for New Year, it was time to get on with the first of the two gwons I'm doing for ME! Yay ( Read more... ) -
Doublets R Us! The next installment.
Seem to be making nothing but doublets these days...
Well, that's not strictly true, but The Big Sekrit Projek we have just completed and is to be collected tomorrow can't be published until after Christmas, so I'm afraid it'll have to be another doublet! AND the coat was based on a doublet pattern anyway!
This, I admit, one of my more eccentric ( Read more... ) -
The effect of judiciously applied insanity...
...is the Mad As A Box of Frogs Field. Everything outside this field is nominally normal (well, for certain values of 'normal'. This is sewing, after all). Everything inside starts to look a little eccentric...
( In Which Kate Prepares to Look Like An Oven Ready Chicken! ) -
How to be Completely Bonkers in One Easy Lesson.
Make a silver doublet!
OK, so I thought 'I want need a space-age silver doublet for a game in November. What cdan I make it out of?'
( Doing the weird stuff again... )
