Fabric
1) Yellow. I need to burn test the yellow. It's getting used no matter what because I already have it and it's the right color, but then I'd know what it is.
2) I need to buy green linen; a nice hunter green if possible; a medium green will do. I have to get it locally because I didn't think about needing linen until now and I can't afford to wait for an online store to ship it.
3) Wash the living daylights out of both in a washing machine on hot with no regard for the typical care instructions for these fabrics. (Inside a pillowcase to prevent all the excess fibers from clogging the drain - a trick I just learned.)
4) Make a pattern.
All of this must be done by the end of the day Saturday if I'm going to stay on schedule. Plus I have to make food for church, spend time with my neglected husband, and look after the wiggly little person we created this year.
I have essentially three days to complete the project, plus finish my 12th Night garb: Friday the 26th, Friday the 2nd, and Saturday the 3rd. That's it. Seems more until I spell it out like that.
5) Cut & sew the lining according to the pattern. Try it on.
6) Make adjustments to the pattern as necessary. It's the liripipe that will need adjusting. I want a fat liripipe exactly like this guy's, but longer:
http://ercc-glaison.blogspot.com/2012/03/wool-hood-finished.html
This is the look I'm going for. Every single unarmored male in this 1344 Romance of Alexander has one.
http://medievalromance.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/A_cycle_of_Alexander_romances
There's even one female that wears one when she is traveling on horseback.
In The Vows of the Peacock, women are shown, if not wearing hoods like this, then at least throwing them over their shoulder.
7) Cut & sew the outer fabric. Hopefully the adjusted pattern works perfectly. I'm not worried about the lining pattern exactly matching the outer fabric because the liripipe lining only needs to exist, not be perfect.
8) Decorate outer fabric with applique / embroidery. A cardwoven band would be nice if I had time, but I don't think I do.
9) Machine sew the collars together. This will take a while if I do a dagged edge, which I think I will.
10) Cut close to seam, turn inside out.
11) Hand finish around face hole.
Alternative construction:
1-8) as described.
9) Cut lining fabric collar short so that it ends above the dags of the outer fabric.
10) Machine finish collar of lining fabric.
11) Machine sew face holes together.
12) Cut close to seam, turn inside out.
13) Hope the outer fabric is the kind that won't ravel (and/or blanket stitch the dagged edge if time allows)
I'm thinking that may even be historical, given some of the examples in the Romance of Alexander that have dags a different color than the rest of the hood (which is what this would look like if you turned it inside out).
2) I need to buy green linen; a nice hunter green if possible; a medium green will do. I have to get it locally because I didn't think about needing linen until now and I can't afford to wait for an online store to ship it.
3) Wash the living daylights out of both in a washing machine on hot with no regard for the typical care instructions for these fabrics. (Inside a pillowcase to prevent all the excess fibers from clogging the drain - a trick I just learned.)
4) Make a pattern.
All of this must be done by the end of the day Saturday if I'm going to stay on schedule. Plus I have to make food for church, spend time with my neglected husband, and look after the wiggly little person we created this year.
I have essentially three days to complete the project, plus finish my 12th Night garb: Friday the 26th, Friday the 2nd, and Saturday the 3rd. That's it. Seems more until I spell it out like that.
5) Cut & sew the lining according to the pattern. Try it on.
6) Make adjustments to the pattern as necessary. It's the liripipe that will need adjusting. I want a fat liripipe exactly like this guy's, but longer:
http://ercc-glaison.blogspot.com/2012/03/wool-hood-finished.html
This is the look I'm going for. Every single unarmored male in this 1344 Romance of Alexander has one.
http://medievalromance.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/A_cycle_of_Alexander_romances
There's even one female that wears one when she is traveling on horseback.
In The Vows of the Peacock, women are shown, if not wearing hoods like this, then at least throwing them over their shoulder.
7) Cut & sew the outer fabric. Hopefully the adjusted pattern works perfectly. I'm not worried about the lining pattern exactly matching the outer fabric because the liripipe lining only needs to exist, not be perfect.
8) Decorate outer fabric with applique / embroidery. A cardwoven band would be nice if I had time, but I don't think I do.
9) Machine sew the collars together. This will take a while if I do a dagged edge, which I think I will.
10) Cut close to seam, turn inside out.
11) Hand finish around face hole.
Alternative construction:
1-8) as described.
9) Cut lining fabric collar short so that it ends above the dags of the outer fabric.
10) Machine finish collar of lining fabric.
11) Machine sew face holes together.
12) Cut close to seam, turn inside out.
13) Hope the outer fabric is the kind that won't ravel (and/or blanket stitch the dagged edge if time allows)
I'm thinking that may even be historical, given some of the examples in the Romance of Alexander that have dags a different color than the rest of the hood (which is what this would look like if you turned it inside out).