Costuming madness?
2004-10-03 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeWell, here I was, perfectly innocently on a Sunday doing not much of anything when I get the idea to start moving on the doublet idea.
As I mentioned before, I brought with me some lovely green velvet to make into something, and only last week I went into town and bought some corduroy to make a test-garment for this.
The moving consisted of me pulling out my working class toile pattern and marking that out on newspaper (I don't have any proper pattern paper, and no other paper large enough). Of course, the working class outfit has a square-cut neckline so I sort of winged it to make the front piece come all the way up to the neck. The back is also angled down in a V, which won't do at all for a doublet. I winged that bit too. I'm not entirely sure how I should be doing this, it's been too long since I had the book (Arnold) before me that I forgot the details of which pieces that doublet had.
Anyway, I cut the pieces out of newspaper, and then washed my normal interlining fabric (in Swedish termed: "draglakan") and then cut out one back piece and two fronts. I actually sewed it together. One side seam, the front up to bust-level and the shoulders, leaving the other side seam open with the idea that I might fit it to myself. Hah! That's where my steam ran out. Besides, I think I didn't add enough seam allowance for a fitting. And I used up my precious interlining material for pieces that will be thrown away really. I should get some cheap-o cotton fabric in to use as toile material - especially if I'm going to be concentrating on the 16th century for my wardrobe.
Of course, that was so not my plan, but it seems whenever I contemplate my GFD which is in construction right now I yawn and my mind veers off to that damned doublet. Of course, I have to make a kirtle to go under the doublet as well, you know. So it's actually two garments in one. Well, three if we count the practice doublet I will get out of it. But when I realize where my mind is going I have to rein myself in because I really want a gothic fitted dress badly. I know it's going to be gorgeousness and gorgeosity once it's done. On the other hand I have been saying I'm going to make it entirely by hand which is a rather daunting idea for someone with my track record of getting tired of projects.
I couldn't count the number of things I started because it sparked my interest and dropped the minute I realized I had to work for it and the results wouldn't just materialize immediately. *sigh* With an Elizabethan I pretty much have the patterns ready, the seams I need to sew are mercifully short for a bodice and in the skirts - well, may as well machine them, eh? Nobody's going to notice. The only stumbling block there would be attaching skirt to bodice. My working class one laid in two pieces for weeks before I finally re-attached the skirt at last sewing circle. I mean, it doesn't take very long to do it once I do it, but it's the threshhold of doing a boring task. One very large threshold for the GFD are all the damned lacingholes. Oy... There's going to be something like fifty if not more if I go with buttoned sleeves (which I might since I screwed up the cutting of sleeves on my first go). I realize it's quite insane to be picturing that step now when I haven't even got the pieces for the dress cut out. I haven't even had a chance to test the pattern we made at sewing Saturday on each other.
It's all madness I tell you. I get swayed by new and shiny things much too easily.
As I mentioned before, I brought with me some lovely green velvet to make into something, and only last week I went into town and bought some corduroy to make a test-garment for this.
The moving consisted of me pulling out my working class toile pattern and marking that out on newspaper (I don't have any proper pattern paper, and no other paper large enough). Of course, the working class outfit has a square-cut neckline so I sort of winged it to make the front piece come all the way up to the neck. The back is also angled down in a V, which won't do at all for a doublet. I winged that bit too. I'm not entirely sure how I should be doing this, it's been too long since I had the book (Arnold) before me that I forgot the details of which pieces that doublet had.
Anyway, I cut the pieces out of newspaper, and then washed my normal interlining fabric (in Swedish termed: "draglakan") and then cut out one back piece and two fronts. I actually sewed it together. One side seam, the front up to bust-level and the shoulders, leaving the other side seam open with the idea that I might fit it to myself. Hah! That's where my steam ran out. Besides, I think I didn't add enough seam allowance for a fitting. And I used up my precious interlining material for pieces that will be thrown away really. I should get some cheap-o cotton fabric in to use as toile material - especially if I'm going to be concentrating on the 16th century for my wardrobe.
Of course, that was so not my plan, but it seems whenever I contemplate my GFD which is in construction right now I yawn and my mind veers off to that damned doublet. Of course, I have to make a kirtle to go under the doublet as well, you know. So it's actually two garments in one. Well, three if we count the practice doublet I will get out of it. But when I realize where my mind is going I have to rein myself in because I really want a gothic fitted dress badly. I know it's going to be gorgeousness and gorgeosity once it's done. On the other hand I have been saying I'm going to make it entirely by hand which is a rather daunting idea for someone with my track record of getting tired of projects.
I couldn't count the number of things I started because it sparked my interest and dropped the minute I realized I had to work for it and the results wouldn't just materialize immediately. *sigh* With an Elizabethan I pretty much have the patterns ready, the seams I need to sew are mercifully short for a bodice and in the skirts - well, may as well machine them, eh? Nobody's going to notice. The only stumbling block there would be attaching skirt to bodice. My working class one laid in two pieces for weeks before I finally re-attached the skirt at last sewing circle. I mean, it doesn't take very long to do it once I do it, but it's the threshhold of doing a boring task. One very large threshold for the GFD are all the damned lacingholes. Oy... There's going to be something like fifty if not more if I go with buttoned sleeves (which I might since I screwed up the cutting of sleeves on my first go). I realize it's quite insane to be picturing that step now when I haven't even got the pieces for the dress cut out. I haven't even had a chance to test the pattern we made at sewing Saturday on each other.
It's all madness I tell you. I get swayed by new and shiny things much too easily.
