I really need to make a wider belt and a better undergown/scarf/partlet thing for the neck area, but other than that I am quite happy. As far as the neck filler-inner bit, I had a great deal of trouble with a straight cut scarf. It kept bunching up funny. I ended up using a square veil and folding it on the bias kerchief style, which worked well but looked quite bulky. I think either a partlet type thing or a v-neck under shift will work better in future.
Friday, April 29, 2011
The finished Houppeland!
Here it is, in all it's smurfy glory! I am really pleased with how this gown turned out. The linen ended up working well, and the gown is very comfortable. It's very, very blue, but oh well.
I really need to make a wider belt and a better undergown/scarf/partlet thing for the neck area, but other than that I am quite happy. As far as the neck filler-inner bit, I had a great deal of trouble with a straight cut scarf. It kept bunching up funny. I ended up using a square veil and folding it on the bias kerchief style, which worked well but looked quite bulky. I think either a partlet type thing or a v-neck under shift will work better in future.
I really need to make a wider belt and a better undergown/scarf/partlet thing for the neck area, but other than that I am quite happy. As far as the neck filler-inner bit, I had a great deal of trouble with a straight cut scarf. It kept bunching up funny. I ended up using a square veil and folding it on the bias kerchief style, which worked well but looked quite bulky. I think either a partlet type thing or a v-neck under shift will work better in future.
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Looks good!
ReplyDeleteI love it, and it does not look smurfy to me. Smurfs are more to the aqua side of blue... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower going out of shadows. I must say I really appreciate your blog, because medieval clothing is one of my areas of interest (not expertise, far from it) and it's good to read about it on such a clear blog... I mean, your blog is a pleasure to look at and read through, and that means a lot to a reader...
It's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you all! The whole thing looked much more smurf-like when I had the white muslin mock-up of the hood on with it :)
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