The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

I'm keeping a more detailed record of the progress of my Camicia in the "Stitch by stitch" page but I couldn't resist shar...

Stitching the lace onto the neckline...

Yippee!

After cutting, trimming and hemming the 14 tabs for my shoulders I sorted them by width and separated them into two similar stacks of 7 tabs...

I've cut shoulder tabs from the leftover strip from the original button placket and pocket flaps of the coat, 14 in all, and am now work...

The first row of gold trim is all stitched down and together, the second row is down, and the sleeves are pinned in place. I guess I'll ...

No, really! I attached the collar to the loose gown and I'm about 1/2 done stitching the fur together at the neck. I've also got t...

A peek at the printed linen for my 'test dress' (which, by the way, I am finally almost comfortable enough to call a sottana.)

Have you noticed that we are just not as chatty this year? I wonder if it is the heat. Or we have been struck with a collective case of co...

Closed! Open!

More shopping...

After one false start and a bit of experimentation I've gotten the fur lining finished on the left front of my loose gown. I'm using...

It's amazingly hot here (for the beginning of May) and I melt faster just *thinking* about working on my loose gown. So I'm not! Ins...

Another find from today's lovely book. Do you see what I see? In the lower left section, near the bottom of the lady's skirts...peri...

While the exact shape and technique would need to be modified to make a more 16th century pair of drawers, the ideas and discussion around f...

Surely one of us needs this ?

O.K. As you can see, I've started working on the trim. I'm tilting the inner loops in groups of four and I think the new interaction...

It never fails to amaze me what I can find on e-bay!

And on to row four

The third row of braid going on