NK - Pillaging Prose

[Cat]

Just don't use those shell buttons... they're very pretty but break easily.
I think  oyu make the jacket hip length (with left over room for her
growing bones) then attach pieces of the desired length like tabs around
the hem.
I'm working on an "Easy Garb for Newbies and the Seamstrically Challenged"
with tips and clear drawings and the easy way to do most things.... maybe
not fitted bodices, but things like puffy pants and shirts and t-tunics.

Ankae the Short
of House Ravenoak
 
"It takes a Viking to raise a village"
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> From: Susan O'Neal <shamrock at intcon.net>
> To: Northkeep at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: NK - Pillaging Prose
> Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 12:16 AM
> 
> >	Not interference, healthy competition!  The feedback from the
> >Drape & Pillage continues to entertain me, so we must do it again!  Day
> >after Christmas, anyone?  BIG sale then!
> >
> >					Catrin
> >					Already spending Christmas
> >					money not yet received
> 
> Isn't that always the way, spend it before you have it.  It sounds great
to
> me and do you have any ideas on when the 'Great Garb in a Day' class will
> be?  I have been sewing away one cheise down and one to go.  Kit has a
> peplos out of one of the Complete Anacronist books on Northern European
> clothing, it is fine as long as it stays warm.  After my one T-tunic
> experiment I think I will save those for after your class.  I also am not
> sure if I am ready to do the canvas bodice lining yet, either.  The other
> challenge is making Kit's suade doublet, I am glad I got the leather
needles
> that Talana recomended.  Where should I be able to find good horn
buttons?
> Also, how long should the doublet be (I should know but am unclear on
this
> one) and do you vent them somehow to give the fullness for the hips or
what?
> I do know to put the plackard under the buttons so that the blade can not
go
> through.
> 
> Susan
> shamrock at intcon.net