Val Day is tomorrow and I’m making progress! This dress just may happen and I *might* still be able to sleep tonight.
Another productive evening – I have something resembling a gown hanging from a hook on my closet door!
Last night I was able to fully attach all skirt panels, attach the skirt lining to the outer skirt fabric, and pleat the combined skirt to the bodice. Continue reading ❧
I may be on target to complete my dress (at least to a wearable point) by this weekend.
The fabric I am using (hooray for stash garments!) is a very light upholstery fabric, so just for fabric integrity I’m flat-lining the whole garment. Continue reading ❧
My gowns have all shrunk.
I blame the laundress.
So, having nothing to wear, I decided that since I am going to Val Day for the first time I need a new dress. A red one.
The husband joined the SCA primarily as an excuse to spend time with me. He has been an indifferent Anglo-Saxon, mainly because he wanted to wear pants.
At Pennsic in 2013, he surprised me by seeing a pattern for a 16th-century Polish coat (zupan) and loudly announcing, “I’d wear that!” Happy that he took an active liking to something, I agreed to make one for him. Continue reading ❧
