[Steppes] 12th Night garb for newcomers

[Randy Shipp]

Ladies,

Thanks for the encouraging words.  I'm definitely planning to be at the
Clothiers Guild meeting on Tuesday.  If I can get a good idea about how much
fabric we'll need and where to go to get it relatively inexpensively, I can
maybe have that by Tuesday.  I hate to cannibalize from another project, but
I suppose I already have some fabric that would work.  I have a bunch of
white linen and a fair amount of green linen, though it's fairly heavy stuff
that I bought online for use in fighting garments.  If I used it for this
project, I'd just need to replace it when the time comes (soon, I hope) when
I learn enough to start in on the fighting kit.

I imagine I'll be machine stitching this if that's easier.  I may challenge
myself with the shoe pattern I mentioned in another thread.  Time to get
started, eh?!

So, any way to estimate how much fabric is needed for each of these outfits?

Thanks again.

--Antoine

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Sunny Briscoe <sunnyday72 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Antoine,
>
> It depends on a lot of things, but yes, in its most basic form, completely
> doable by 12th night.  I have made a list of things to think about to help
> with that goal:
>
> Pick good fabric.  It doesn't _have_ to be period (I can't believe I just
> said that), it just has to be easy to work with.  That said, I find natural
> fibers in plain weaves without any sort of pattern (printed or otherwise) to
> be the easiest to work with.  They won't slide around, and there is often no
> up or down or back or front.  Plain linen, wool, or raw silk would be your
> best bet, and there are several places you can actually find those things
> (even on line with time left for sewing)
>
> Go for simplicity.  Sure, you _could_ embroider bits around the neck and
> sleeves, and hand sew all the seams and all of that (even in your time
> frame, if you don't sleep), but to ease the stress, just plan to get all of
> the pieces together and fitting well.  If you must, consider topstitching a
> plain cord around the neck and wrist edges (Baroness Amalia of Elfsea does
> this lovely detail on many of her garments - and it's period too).  There
> are ways to do it by machine that will make it go very fast and easy.
>
> Try to make it loose fitting.  Tightly fitted garments just seem to be more
> complicated than looser fitting ones.
>
> Come to Clothier Guild meetings.  The next one is next Tuesday (I think,
> check the calendar to be sure).  There are a few people there that would be
> happy to help (myself included).
>
> If you are feeling brave and want to do this and have more questions,
> please feel free to contact me.  For a bit of background info, I love
> costuming, I am especially interested in clothing of "every man" and the
> evolution of costuming.  I am no in to fussy clothes, but I am in to well
> made clothes.  I recently transplanted here from Bryn Gwlad (Austin), but I
> have been in the SCA for 15 years and sewing for much longer than that.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Signora Elisabetta Morosini
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Randy Shipp <randyshipp at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Are the garments in this link from the Steppes 12th Night page doable by
>> beginners in the timeframe we have (around 2-3 weeks)?
>>
>> http://housebarra.com/EP/ep06/09anglodress.html
>>
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