So I was working on making this floor length but had a miscalculation and ran out of fabric for the final tier. Gotta make a trip to the fabric store in the morning to see if I can match it. Or maybe I can make the last tier white? But that makes me nervous if it’s floor length. What do you guys think?
Was browsing some petticoat related stuff and came across this cool blog entry. I love the details on the back of the hood. I've never seen that kind of pleating before and apparently it was on most cloaks during its time period.
Made a hand sewn tunic with no pattern using a YouTube tutorial (I’ll post the link below when I track it down).
Unfortunately the armscyes were too small. I decided to make a gusset that extended down the full length of the sleeve. I may actually do this purposefully for future projects, because I like the comfort and the finish of the double seam.
Another thing I did for this project, which was a bit masochistic, was after thread pulling I used the pulled threads to sew the whole thing together. That’s why the thread colour matching is downright perfect.
I used the smallest size of pattern from jumpsu.it to scale down to a toddler size based on my kid’s measurements. Learned a lot about pattern resizing in the process!
It was still a bit snug around his middle but he got to wear if for a couple weeks.
Red standard cotton twill.
I don’t know how long I was on Reddit… more than 8 years because it was before my first kid was born. Probably at least ten. Not signing in to check though.