I'm a looooooooser

What's this, blog number 5? 6?
I want to have somewhere to document the steps I take to make a frock, that isn't my wahwah blog. Hopefully, it will mean that I:
a) Will stop and consider WHY I do what I do, and therefore, perhaps, force me to make some actually period choices.
b) Will have a record of what I do. I'm finding that after my break from costuming, I've forgotten some pretty basic stuff.
c) Maybe, at some point, will share it with intrested parties. Not like this is hard to find or anything, though...

And to start, here's a list of UFOs in the work pile at the moment:

• Fz's late period shirt. It's mostly done. It needs a hem, and the collar and cuffs gathered and put into bands. It's made very simply, with small gores at the neck (I'd never done this before), and a tiny reinforced spider web at the neck opening. It's to go with baggy 1580s German pants and jackets. These are yet to be made.

• The armholes on my recent partlet. I wore it at Midwinter unfinished. It's the work of 30 minutes. The partlet pattern was based on one I'd made earlier. I can't remember why I chose this shape and stuff...that's why I have this blog! It's cotton voile, and the ruff is attached. I chose to pleat the ruff not into triple Vs, as on Renn Tailor, but only doubles. I wanted to reduce bulk in the partlet collar, and make something delicate.
  
  

• There's also some mending/fixing/doing that has to happen to the new gold frock. The sleeves need tweaking, the 'dills need redoing, again. The skirt is a little too short - I'd like to unhem it, add a bias strip and see if that gives me more hem. My other option is to bind the whole edge.
  

Coming soon - The Festy List.