I just can't help myself
Apr. 14th, 2006 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisThe sleeves on Rickard's tunicella has been bothering me for a while. They were too wide and almost reached to the top of the side gore (which also may be placed a little too high, but I'm not sure). So the day before yesterday I unpicked the seams and now one sleeve is attached again, after being cut down. I'm not that keen on unpicking hand sewn garments, especially not when they're made from thin silk twill, but with all the work I plan to put in on the decoration I think it deserves to be as good as it can. But it's boring, so yesterday, at 11.15 pm I decided that now was the time to cut a new Herjolfsnes dress. So I did that. The sleeve pattern needed some testing so I only cut one. I basted it together today, while ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amonik and Anna were here, and tried it and it looked good and fit in the sleeve hole so now I will cut another. And make a paper pattern for it so I don't have to do it again next time I'm doing a dress from the second half of the 14th century. The lovely periwinkle wool blend I used also turned out to be all wool and not a blend (I did a burn test), so I'm really happy about that, I paid c. 2,5 $/metre for it. But that means that I feel obliged to sew this dress by hand too. I know they're nothing wrong with machine seams on the inside, but I just can't seem to help myself.
amonik and Anna were here, and tried it and it looked good and fit in the sleeve hole so now I will cut another. And make a paper pattern for it so I don't have to do it again next time I'm doing a dress from the second half of the 14th century. The lovely periwinkle wool blend I used also turned out to be all wool and not a blend (I did a burn test), so I'm really happy about that, I paid c. 2,5 $/metre for it. But that means that I feel obliged to sew this dress by hand too. I know they're nothing wrong with machine seams on the inside, but I just can't seem to help myself.