The hemd came out beautifully. Running it through the wash did rumple it a little but it was easily revived with a quick ironing. I did find that the collar may be a bit too tall for my neck. When I tie it closed it bends and folds oddly. I think if I’d made it 2″ tall instead of ~3.5″…
Pics or it never happened
Sunday was the first run with the new Kampfrau dress. Good: – Wulsthaube worked fantastically well. I will be publishing my “how to” as soon as I finish writing it (and include pictures).(Published here) – Dress and hemd were “done” – Vertical stripy socks are cool. I’ll need to buy more of these. Bad: – I’m still fat.. no dress…
Firepit
Old Firepit Purchased from DragonWing Pavilions I want a new firepit… calling it a firepit is misleading… I want a mobile cooking station that could accomodate a 30-50 person feast without need of a feast kitchen (or something that can compliment a feast kitchen). For some reason cooking at event is one of the things that really excites me about…
Progress: Smocking done
At Mists Investiture this last weekend I finished the last of the smocking. I think it’s beau-ti-ful (click to embiggen). I’ve removed the pleating threads and stretched it out a little. After all the smocking the neck came out a little bit bigger than 50% of the original width. I’ve decided to line the collar both for comfort and to…
Down to the wire
I see the end. It’s over there. I’m supposed to wear the dress for the first time in 5 days. I think I’ll have it all done in time (I’m hopeful that I won’t be madly finishing hand stitches on Saturday morning). Still left to do: Required: – Finish Hemd(Plan to finish this tonight) Line the collar Add ties Add…
Cover Thy Head
Things which are curiously similar: St Brigitta coif(12th-16th century) Maciejowski Bible women’s “coif”(French origin 1244-1254 AD) Jorvik Silk cap (Viking woman head gear from the 11th century) How the Jorvik cap is -currently- interpreted: I’m reading over the descriptions I can find of the Jorvik cap.. and I’m looking at the re-drawing of it.. and I’m really really really tempted…
Hemd
Along with my Trossfrau/Swiss Dress I need an appropriate hemd(chemise). Inspirational Pictures Plan There are several acceptable styles(high neck, low neck, rounded neck, etc). I’ve decided I like a high-necked front-opening hemd with honey-comb smocking at the neck. When I made the shirt for Fearghus’ Waffenrock I used a pattern very similar to one suggested by Rainillt in the Pleatworks…
The neckline
I’m making Fearghus a new fighting tunic and decided to give it the same sort of neckline as the Viborg shirt. His neck is 18.5 inches. I mathified this (C=2pi*r) and figured out the radius of the circle that is his neck and then cut out a square that could bound the circle of his neck (each side of the…
Sleeves (said with fear and horror)
I’ve only ever draped sleeves.. or left them for last and just kind of faked it. This time I want to draft a pattern so I have a sleeve pattern to use on my next dress. I’m planning to make a bunch of German dresses so it seems silly to have to fake the sleeves every time. So.. I grepped…
Skirt: The Fiddly Bits
The bottom of the bodice is smaller than my hips. In order to be able to get into/out of the dress I needed to leave a slightly longer opening. To hide this I want to slightly overlap the front skirt closure. The right-hand side of the skirt ends flush with the right hand side of the bodice. The left-hand side…