Good day to sew

Today it is all overcast and looks like rain. Good sewing day. Good thing, because I've never attempted to make anything so major so quickly before.

Yesterday nightbocce and her friend Elizabeth draped me for the bodice to both my English fur-shawl collar overgown and my Moroni Lady in Rose overgown. Today my goal is to make significant progress on the English overgown. I'm not going to bone it and that should cut down on construction time. (I didn't bone my brown doublet, and that fits fine, and the structural support for this outfit will come from the boned kirtle g0atface is making me.)

night_bocce was strongly against my lining my skirt with fur, but the look on my face apparently was enough to convince even her that that is what I really wanted. Like I said before, I'll do a partial lining. And I'll keep the hem of this overgown a bit short in hopes that that will mitigate the danger of the hem getting wet and dragging if it rains.

OK, off to sew now! But first, that SCA Meme:

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11 hours later...

OK,that's not completely honest. I had to go to the grocery store, make food periodically, do laundry, appease the kitties, etc. But mostly I sewed.

-- I got the bodice patterns copies to paper & lines trued(shawl and Moroni overdress bodices.)

-- wool, linen canvas interlining and silk lining cut out.

-- wool and interlining basted together (flat)

-- wool/interlining basted together and tried on with my red, non-boned petticote.

-- front V tweeked. Had to come in 1/2 inch from the draped muslin neckline. Also had to take in about a 1/2 total in the little bit of center front where the bodice meets.

-- wool/interlining pieces stiched together.

-- edges of wool/interlining folded in and herringbone-stiched down.

Overall comment:
Surprise surprise, if you cut a big V in the center front of your bodice it is not going to fit snuggly. But the drape is pretty darn good. If one thinks of this thing as a coat more than as a gown I think the fit is more acceptable. I think when I get the skirt on (which will weigh the bodice down) and the center front gets closed up at the bottom it will be OK. Another thing is that originally I thought it would close only at the bodice point. But the thing really does fit better if it closes from the bodice point to about the waist. Again, not too surprising. Guiding principle is Done And Warm is Beautiful.