Or, Sabine needs better-fitting hosen.
My existing ones aren't
bad, but...well, I did make then in an adrenaline-fueled rush during the six hours preceding Kingdom A&S one year. They don't not fit, but they're made of the same not-wool as the yellow cote, so they aren't nearly elastic enough to get the nice smooth fit depicted in most medieval art of the late 12th to early 13th century. I'm also not delighted with having a seam along the center of the sole; it's not comfortable to walk on, and makes fitting the toe even more challenging than it needs to be.
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| I had to hobble across the apartment to get the sharpie to draw those lines. |
So I got out the old sheet I've been using for patterning, and pinned my leg into it. I used a three-piece design this time: one piece for the leg and heel, one for the instep, and one for the sole, which let me get the foot and ankle much more tightly fitted and moved the seams to more convenient locations.
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| So stylish. |
I marked the seamlines with a sharpie before unpinning and flattening the pieces to trace out again with smoother outlines and notes on orientation (but not on intersection points, which it turns out was a somewhat crucial oversight).
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| Feet are such weird shapes. |
New foot pieces came out of the old leg panel, which was slightly too small to recut along the lines of the new leg piece.
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| Sheets are fabulous for muslins. They go on forever. |
And the new leg from the remainder of the sheet, which is getting
washed before I use it again. It's covered in cat fur, and I was a sneezy mess by the time I was done with it.
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