Checking in

[tudorpot]

Slowly recovering. Before Brambling became ill, I was not in great shape. This made it all so much harder to cope with.

Here's a last pic of the dear girl. As you can see she was comfy, had just lapped up some beef broth.

Comments

[mundungus42]

*huge hugs* I'm so glad your last picture of your sweet girl is the universal "food-good-more-please-now?" doggy face. It stirs affection and fond exasperation in equal measure. I'm glad you have some spring beauty for comfort and, if not warmth, then some less-cold :D Ooo, I'm so impressed you're taking on Tudor bodice-making. It's an art I certainly haven't mastered (ditto anything relating to sewing), so I'm looking forward to watching your project progress so I can cheer you on and enjoy your success vicariously.

[tudorpot]

Thank you dear. Spring is struggling to arrive, it will last about 2 weeks, then we will have a snow storm, followed by wicked high temps.
Love that you cheer me on. I need to post more. I've been reluctant since it's all been so negative.

Tudor bodies

[lauradi7]

Whew, a blast from the past. I spent a great deal of time years ago researching and sewing, in order to made middle-class Elizabethan garb for my daughter. We mostly used Drea Leed's pattern generator. I just looked at the Elizabethan costuming page and it brought it all back
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/index.html

Fond memory - going through the video (not DVD) of Shakespeare in Love scene by scene and realizing that the extras were used over and over "Look! it's the woman with the striped sleeves again!"

Re: Tudor bodies

[tudorpot]

Drea Leed's pages are great, I've used them for years. This is my first venture into a bodice, been making generic t-tunics for various reasons. Now I have a draped pattern, I must get it turned into a real set of garb.
You may notice period garb from other films/tv shows being re-used in other shows.

Re: Tudor bodies

[lauradi7]

If the clothing is too OOP I tend to find that I can't watch the show. I've tried a couple of times with Reign, but not long enough to know if they have messed with history, because I can't get more than 30 seconds into it before saying out loud "What is she wearing?" and changing channels. An exception is that we've managed to stick with "Vikings," which is absurdly variable - some of the clothes are OK, some are out of a fantasy novel, I guess. Sleepy Hollow (and the new Turn) are doing alright with 1770s era clothes as well.

[iulia_linnea]

I'm so sorry about Brambling. *hugs*

[tudorpot]

Thank you dear, hope your mum improves rapidly. HUGS

[zafania]

Brambling would want you to get a puppy soon. I'm sure when pickle went she left cat notes all over the house for her successor- branston definitely read the one about never allowing me to pee unsupervised

I've found the important thing with those bodices is to make sure they're a bit tighter than you think you need, as one of mine is that little bit too loose and I'm never comfortable in the bloody thing. I keep meaning to take it in

[tudorpot]

I'm going to take a break from puppies for a few years. Want to do some traveling, they get so upset when I'm gone, also dear brother and SIL need a break from puppy sitting.
Nice to be able to put stuff down and not worry that the dog is going to eat it, pee on it, or toss it all over the house.

Thanks, this bodice has three layers - light linen, heavy cotton duck canvas and a light linen canvas - sewn together to make it act as one. As per your method, I'm going to put the fashion fabric on at the end of the process. Lots more to do and I will be making it tight. My back aches horribly when I don't wear a bra.

[zafania]

Ive said the same about kittnes before, but then Its so lonely without a little furry bastard in the house.

Def make sure its tight enough then, tight means support

[blamebrampton]

I'm so sorry about Brambling, what a beautiful dog she was!

As for the bodice, I'd start by taking a great wodge out of the shoulder. It looks as though the strap is sitting in the wrong place, too. I quite often cut shoulder straps off flush with the front line of the garment and pin them separately to get a good fit on the toile, then recut them as single pieces with the next draft. Then some out of each side seam working from the bottom up. You could easily stitch a few pieces of boning to the toile if you will be wearing it without a corset, not enough to get it rigid but enough to provide a bit of help with the smoothness. Some from around the centre front angled out to nipple line would help.

[tudorpot]

Great help, but I can't visualize placement of the boning.

[blamebrampton]

If you imagine wearing a waistband at your waist, stick you thumbs in at the centre front, as though you were a cowboy. Move them out a little, towards your hip bones, until there is a gap of about 10cm between them. These are the bottom points of the bones. Draw diagonal lines upwards from these points towards your nipples. These are the lines your bones should take, though in actuality you will probably want to spread just a little bit outside them so that the bones act like the side supports in a bra and lift your boobage a bit. You don't want them to go right to the side, because you also want the stiffness to do a bit of boobage evening out, giving you a bit of that cone shape.

If you want the full cone, bones EVERYWHERE along the front! And then one or two at the back and a short couple at the sides. Which is not as uncomfortable as it sounds, actually.

[tudorpot]

Bodice2 is very comfortable and supportive. I'm wondering how boning would work with my very short waist, only a few inches from underboob to waist.
link to latest version- I used your suggestion of cutting the straps separate, worked very well.

forgot link -
http://tudorpot.livejournal.com/434189.html?view=3151885#t3151885