Rummage brings inspiration!
2006-08-20 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeI 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!
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!
