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So, I pulled out one of the bags that has been sitting on my spare bed since forever and looked inside it to find the culottes that I bought second-hand and butchered for the wool. Now this wool is lovely, it is charcoal grey, one would say almost black, it is thin, it is lovely it is fabulous. It might be enough for a bodice, with shoulder treatments, but not sleeves. It is definately not enough for a skirt.

Ponderng my wool I got to thinking about Bess' fabulous new Kentwell outfit, and the portraits she used for inspiration. Now I can so see this turning into a dress of that kind. Only I still don't have enough for a skirt. So my mind starts to tell me, well, skirt-schmirt, make a doublet! Bad ideas attack me like this, I don't know what to do.... I could do pinks, put a poly behind it, looks like satin nobody would know. I could make it faboo! But seriously, I do not need another project. Besides, if I make a doublet, I've still got nothing to wear underneath it! I do have the grey wool which was bought, meant for a kirtle, and still meant for a kirtle..

... a bit later...
I am probably insane. Statistically it wouldn't be a bad statement. Considering I could not, simply could not, let it be, instead I went ahead and pulled out my bodice pattern, the same as the tudor court gown, and with a couple of adjustments, moving the side seam so that more is in the back, and changing the shoulder strap angle I drew the pattern onto my wool with my chalk. Check it out, front and back. I mean, it just beckons to be cut out now. But it's low-cut, I can't make a low-cut jacket. I have two more of the same size pieces as the ones in the pictures too, so I could make sleeves, as well as use the surrounding bits for wings, rolls and doo-dads.

It's a sickness I tell you, starting dead-end projects. I can't concievably make a dress out of this! I just really, really wanted to try out the curved shoulder-strap bit that