So, I kind of promised that I would work on dress diaries more often...obviously, since my last blog post was over a month ago, I slacked. Shame on me, I know.
But, here it goes. In the last month or so, I've been working on three major projects, plus some others; testing my glove drafting (which I later taught a class on, and will write a post on later) with a trial pair in upcycled leather, sewing on the
16th century Irish Leine, and both developing a house waistcoat pattern for myself and making the first piece from it.
The photos are in approximately chronological order, and jump between projects...so pay attention:
To start, gloves. Since I've been playing with 1560-70s Northern Europe, I wanted to work on a pattern that would be appropriate to that....it was both easier, and more challenging than I expected. Actually drafting them wasn't that difficult...finding examples from the correct period which show any detail was. Still, I managed, even if I'm still not certain of whether there should be a gusset into the thumb.
