Monday, December 31, 2012

My Historical Sew Fortnightly Project #0

Item, one coif, embroidered in red.

I confess that I have been involved in 16th century costuming for more than 3 decades and yet this is my *first* coif!

I followed the basic, 'fold a rectangle of cloth and fit it to the back of your head' method but added a couple of small darts to shape it more smoothly to the head in back.

I started with one of a pair of embroidered guest towels, Flora from Pottery Barn, which I bought on eBay.




Marking the curve


Cutting out



I french seamed the edge and then pinned in the darts



All sewn up



Voila!











My gosh! That really was super simple!

No comments:

Post a Comment