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More machine sewing has occurred. I have finished 3 shirts, and most of the red dress. I have ordered more linen.


The pennsic project count (beginning mid May as that's when my Pennsic panic started).( Clicky clicky... you know you want to. )

Of the nearly 133 yards of linen, I currently have about 10 yards left and 10 on order. Which means I have sewn ~110 yards of linen already. Wow (yup even for me).

Ok... so this will probably be the last of the pics for a while, until I figure out what I'm going to do about replacing my little Fuji fine pix. [sigh]

Last night was productive in other areas than actual sewing. My new sewing/ textile artillerist badge is done! Thanks Simona/Kat. She brought me the art so I could create a new icon.:D It is suppose to be horizontal, but I wanted to show more of the art work. Its a cannon barrel and a spool of thread. Almost a literal translation of textile artillerist. But the visuals are in line with the NomNuts badge (which is making several heralds twitchy...)( new badge )

My stoodint got practice taping a guy and not giving him man boobs. That was fun and Griff was a great sport about the whole thing. We also talked about cartridge pleating, when to use, when not to use, box pleats, why its better to hand sew those and why we use a simple gather (which is period) for garments being attached into a waistband. I think I like this learning/teaching thingy.

Though I made progress sewing stripes for pants and doublet, and hand attaching my new fencing skirt to its top.

Matt's pants- pictures speak a 1000 words. And I really cant do better than a visual except to say, I love sewing for the gaudy lower class soldier.... (yup those are the legs, same pants). The doublet will be the opposite.( pants )

Costumer tricks 269 & 270- Concealed buttons and sewed on garters.
When I'm working on armor, I am most concerned with how the garment looks and its structural integrity. So I am not using 100% period techniques and occasionally I add a modern element that is concealed. Like buttons. The only way you are going to see this is if you are up close and very personal with the fencer and you better be buying breakfast. This adds a level of safety to the garment in case a tie fails. Which is not very likely, but is possible.Though oddly enough i draw the line at velcro... A girl has to have some standards.( buttons )

I don't know about you... but some people I know have a hard time getting all the parts of their garb and themselves to the same event. Garters are one of those pesky items that complete the "finishing" touches on the pants, but... I know that they would get forgotten, lost, mutilated, etc... who know what else would befall these little fabric strips. Heck, I consider it a win if the garters actually make it to the rapier list tied properly (as opposed to "still pinned" neat little ironed rolls). Solution, sew them to the pants. If the pants make it to the event... the garters make it to the event. If the pants don't make it, then we have a different problem.( garters )

Done- Bear dress, soldier's coat, 1 shirt

On deck- Shirt, coat collar, Kampfrau ties, Lissa skirts

Sorry... no pics today.

I feel like I'm behind...  I know I'm not.  I am hoping I get a lot accomplished today.
Alesone: cut 3 pants (cause I used matt's pattern which didn't work out so well for my curvy hips),  new cap and 2 shirts
HRM: cut hood,
Melchior: cut 1 pant, 1 set of stripes for pants + lining, 1 shirt
Organized: got everything labeled, hanging, and ready to go, fabric in tubbies and off the table.

On deck:
HRM deconstruct waffenrok skirt from bodice (as I don't like the way it was hanging.)
Lissa: Dress and shirt
Alethea: soldiers coat
Melchior: waffenrok sleeve
Project day: teach Lissa, serve food, have a great time with everyone!

Yesterday was a bad breathing day, so I got an extra hand sewing day into the mix. I was able to make headway into the sleeve ties, only to realize that the new fencing armor needs ties too... Sometimes I really want to take short cuts. I mean, you don't see the ties. I could use a D ring on one side and one set of ties on the other, thus eliminating the need to do ties by 1/2. Then the other side of my brain kicks in and says, "you've gone this far, just do the darn ties". We shall see how many actually get done before pennsic. I might be a couple of sleeves short for a dress.( For those keeping track at home... )

Currently I am still ahead of schedule.

This kinda goes with the Pennsic panic post.  I feel like Im forgetting something somewhere. I am anal (hyphen) retentive about these things. I put everything into MS project and created a calendar. If you should be here and aren't, let me know.

In theory, if you are on here... you can see when I will be working on your stuff.  Calendar's here.