New fabric!

[frualeydis]

I've got new fabric. My mother took me and my sister to Boras (another town, ca 40 minutes from here by car) and bought us fabric. I bought some myself too, but she gave me 70$ which means a lot of fabric. First I bought 5 metres thin, slightly off-white linen for Vendela's and Valeria's new shifts and 3 metres light pink-lilac (we call it lingonberry and milk sometimes)thin linen for a underdress for my bliauts. I have one I like very much but it's from cotton/polyester twill and I will sell/get rid of it. Then my mum bought me 4,5 metres black cotton velvet, so now I can start on the Janet Arnold loose gown that belongs together with my loose kirtle. I will probably start on it later in the autumn, but now I have the fabric. She also gave me money so I could buy 5 metres striped wool. It is striped in brown tones and blue, a tabby and slightly fulled. I'm going to wash it and see if it fulls some more. The current plan is to make a 16th century middle class dress from it, but I need more inspiration. I just know that I want to wear it with a black wool partlet on top. Does anybody have any sources for striped dresses or just good examples of middle class clothing with a partlet like that?
I have now finished Vendela's blue wool dress so all that is left to do on the clothes side is to make the shifts and sew one side of athin ribbon on one of the sleeves on Maja's last linen dress.
Then I can turn my attention to fixing some stuff on the pavilion. Tomorrow is laundry-day again. We don't have very much tiem so I won't get all the fabric washed, but since I can't start on any new projects before Visby anyway it's only the white linen that needs to be washed.

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[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Actually, after thinking, it's more the kind of dress an ordinary artisan's wife would wear that I want to do. That can be called middle class, but isn't what people usually percieve as middle class.
I have just pre-washed the fabric. I'm quite sure it isn't 100% wool, but it looks good to me so I don't mind.