Yellow Cote (late 14th - early 15th Century)

We got to 12th night and I finished the last eyelet in the hotel room (it wouldn’t be 12th night if I wasn’t madly sewing in the room.) It’s done!! It’s done!! Post Mortem It turns out that I didn’t completely remove some of the markings on the inside of the garment. Just over my left breast it says “LF”…

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Yellow Cote (late 14th - early 15th Century)

One sleeve is done. Just one more to go. I decided to hand sew the sleeves as it gives them the right look. I’m using back stitches to attach them to the body of the garment and then a running stitch across the seam at the back of the arm. At the wrist I used a running stitch to roll…

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Yellow Cote (late 14th - early 15th Century)

Edith came over and graciously agreed to help me fit sleeves for the dress. We fit them tight and then marked where the “real” seam should be. Then I cut them apart and moved the gap to the edge so that the “real” seam would be in the right place. I ended up trying on the dress several times to…

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Yellow Cote (late 14th - early 15th Century)

Yet more eyelets. Finished all but one eyelet. Good enough to try the dress on and mark the hem. When I went to try on the dress I realized that the lace that I’d set aside for this dress was too short. I fingerlooped a new lace in white silk (5-loop round braid)(about 1-2 hr to fingerloop). Flying to Montana…

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