June 2017 Projects
It's still earlyish...totally counts. Time to check in with the project list and see how I'm doing for progress.
• Underbodice pattern for green and peach silk bliaut
• Dye green linen for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat and salwar)
• Dye yellow linen for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• Stamp orange silk for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat)
• Resist stamp and dye blue silk for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• K's green and yellow striped silk salwar
• Patterns for K's Persian garb (salwar, short sleeved coat, long sleeved coat)
• Reshape and finish cuisses and knee cops
• Cut and punch red plates for lamellar coat
•Pattern and make coral poppy sundress
Okay, so I only get to cross two things off the list, but there are a bunch of unlisted things and partial things done.
The cuisses and knees are completely done! Including quilted lining I can remove and wash once in a while to keep the rich scent of old sweat from infiltrating every part of my shoebox apartment.
Also, I bought a helm! Or at least I absconded with it and am in the process of paying for it. By mid-July it'll be actually mine, and it needs some modification and a great deal of padding to be usable. This (again) depends on shop time, so I'm not making it an official goal goal.
The coral poppy sundress is...uh...half-made, in pieces on my friend's sewing table. Theoretically tonight I'm getting it closer to three-quarters-made, and the rest will be done on various forms of transportation.
Absolutely zero dyeing, stamping, or patterning has happened for K's Persian garb. Well, not quite zero; I had him try on a mock-up of salwar I'm hoping to squeak out of two yards of fabric, and discover I needed to make dramatic modifications. I'll cross off a single "s" for that.
I do have three yards of embroidered trim finished, and I'm hoping to get the fourth done by the end of the week. After the next two-yard strip, I'll have to switch to the trim for the sleeve cuffs until I have a bodice pattern finished and know how much fabric I'll be using for it and the sleeves. I need the final circumference of the skirt before I finish, to save embroidering trim that just gets cut off—that's a step too tragic for me—and since the point of this bliaut is ostentation, I'm using whatever is left of the ten-yard length of dress fabric after bodice and sleeves for the skirt. All of it. My math tells me it shall be a glorious approximately-seven-yards of hem, which I have cleverly arranged to be made of selvedge so I don't have to hem all that. I might anyway.
• Underbodice pattern for green and peach silk bliaut
• Dye green linen for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat and salwar)
• Dye yellow linen for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• Stamp orange silk for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat)
• Resist stamp and dye blue silk for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• K's green and yellow striped silk salwar
• Patterns for K's Persian garb (salwar, short sleeved coat, long sleeved coat)
• Reshape and finish cuisses and knee cops
• Cut and punch red plates for lamellar coat
•Pattern and make coral poppy sundress
• Reshape and pad helm
Goals for this month: finish the skirt trim for the bliaut (which entails doing the patterning and fabric allotment for different sections); cut, punch, wax and stitch lamellar coat; finish the coral poppy sundress; get K's salwar patterned.
The (May) List
• Embroidered trim for green and peach silk bliaut• Underbodice pattern for green and peach silk bliaut
• Dye green linen for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat and salwar)
• Dye yellow linen for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• Stamp orange silk for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat)
• Resist stamp and dye blue silk for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• K's green and yellow striped silk salwar
• Patterns for K's Persian garb (
• Cut and punch red plates for lamellar coat
•
Okay, so I only get to cross two things off the list, but there are a bunch of unlisted things and partial things done.
The cuisses and knees are completely done! Including quilted lining I can remove and wash once in a while to keep the rich scent of old sweat from infiltrating every part of my shoebox apartment.
Also, I bought a helm! Or at least I absconded with it and am in the process of paying for it. By mid-July it'll be actually mine, and it needs some modification and a great deal of padding to be usable. This (again) depends on shop time, so I'm not making it an official goal goal.
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| Sneak peek of the skirt, the long seams of which are (gasp!) machine sewn. |
Absolutely zero dyeing, stamping, or patterning has happened for K's Persian garb. Well, not quite zero; I had him try on a mock-up of salwar I'm hoping to squeak out of two yards of fabric, and discover I needed to make dramatic modifications. I'll cross off a single "s" for that.
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| Yes, I do have a reprehensible Chipotle habit. The bags are great for storing all kinds of things, though. |
The Ongoing List
• Embroidered trim for green and peach silk bliaut• Underbodice pattern for green and peach silk bliaut
• Dye green linen for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat and salwar)
• Dye yellow linen for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• Stamp orange silk for K's Persian garb (long sleeved coat)
• Resist stamp and dye blue silk for K's Persian garb (short sleeved coat)
• K's green and yellow striped silk salwar
• Patterns for K's Persian garb (
• Cut and punch red plates for lamellar coat
•
• Reshape and pad helm
Goals for this month: finish the skirt trim for the bliaut (which entails doing the patterning and fabric allotment for different sections); cut, punch, wax and stitch lamellar coat; finish the coral poppy sundress; get K's salwar patterned.
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