I have join the Historical Sew Fortnightly!
With a new deadline every 2 weeks and amazing inspiration from other participating in the challenges, I am journeying forward with a small skip in my step to complete my first challenge.
The Requirements for the Challenge ~ due Friday 15 August.
Get out into the weather and dirt with an item for outdoor pursuits.
Fabric:
Pattern:
Year:
Notions:
How historically accurate is it?
Hours to complete:
First worn:
Total cost:
For the Great Outdoors challenge I am working on a men's coat/justaucorps. I technically began working on it in February last year, but due to school projects had to set it aside and then never had a chance to pick it back up.
My desire to build a coat like this begin back in September 2012 when my University mounted a production of Twelfth Night and the Costume designer for the show showed us the sketches. The time period was roughly 1710. Each of my classmates were assigned a different character from the show to cut for, and I was given the Duke Orsino. Thus began my love of justaucorps!
To cut to the chase, I built his costume and then decided that his coat was to fabulous not to build one for myself.
The great thing was our Orsino was roughly the same size as me, so with some minor tweaking to a pattern I had already worked most the kinks out of, I ventured forth ;)
After finding a delightful woven navy fabric at Dressew for $3 a meter I got to work.
After pre-washing, cutting and mounting the fabric, I began with the fun task of Pad stitching!!! It was then that I had to put aside this project.
But with renewed zeal and a deadline in less then a month, I am thrilled to pick up this project once again.
Check back soon for more updates :D
Oh the pleats ^_^
