The voices stopped talking to me

( I look at my stash, I look at my want-list and I come up Eh... )

I suppose I'll go through my inventory again and add any further little finishing touch to the list and continue working on that rather than starting a new project when the voices aren't speaking to me.

For reference, the updated niggle-list:

1. woolen hose
2. leather gloves
3. tudor court gown foresleeves
4. french hood
5. silk veiling
6. garb repairs of various and sundry nature: hems, ripped seams etc.
   
7. sleeves for test doublet
8. lacing cord for various and sundry gowns
9. rip open and add eyelets on second side-back seam of tudor court gown
10. sort out jewelery for 16th C
11. Manufacture girdle belt with the heart-shaped pomander I have waiting
12. Make a new bag to replace the ratty one I always use for events (and mundanely too)
13. one or two secret projects to be given away
14. Make fichets (pocket slits) happen for the lilac surcote.
15. Fancy, but warm!, sleeves to lace into the Spanish ropa.
16. Padded carrying thing for camera at events
    

Rummage brings inspiration!

I had a look through my many plastic bags in which I keep scraps and forgotten projects and found the rest of the corduroy to make sleeves for the test doublet, and also the full length linen lining I cut out for the surcote. Now, colour me crazy, but it spoke to me.

It said it wanted to become a 16th C kirtle rather than a boring surcote lining. A side-laced linen kirtle with gored skirt (because that's what I've cut out already). I did have to piece the lining at the waist, but that's OK as I would be making the skirt and bodice up separately anyway - just have to unpick the stitching I did (oh yes, there was stitching, flat felling by folding the edges in toward each other and hemstitching on both the folds rather than the more standard "run-and-fell") and recut the bodice.

The front is cut on a fold, so that would be smooth, the back has a seam, so that's fine. The lacing would go in the sides. All that is left to do is modify the bodice to the proper profile. Being cheeky I can get cotton cheaply to line the skirt, interline the bodice and line it with some of my white linen and away we go.

I started by taking out the original bodice pattern I created off my corset, redrawing that on some newspaper and rearranging the waistline (which was too long there) and the side-seams (which were angled much farther back for the nobility) so I should be able to lace myself into it with a little bit of manouvering. I may have to cut the shoulderstraps out new, but that shouldn't be a problem, I have leftover fabric (I think).

I dub this the day I officially start the 'surcote lining kirtle'. I found my sewing fu - hurray!