Green Florentine Dress

[isabelladangelo]

Yay! The green dress is done! :-) The waistline looks wonky but that's because dummy mummy is bigger than the lady this dress is intended for. It looked funkier on the broken dress dummy.

Now, doublets!

Also, if anyone is interested in some beginner information, I posted a tutorial over on my blogspot regarding taking a commercial "historical" pattern and making it more accurate. I used a one popular Elizabethan looking pattern for the tutorial that I bet many people still have. I need to make a new 'Bethan and didn't feel like drafting it myself (I loathe attempting to get the armholes right!). So, why not make a tutorial out of how I take a pattern that already has decent armholes to it and make it closer to what I'd draft out anyway? Or so my thinking went...

The new 'Bethan will be out of gray wool with this beyond fabulous matching wool trim in green and yellow. It's very lower middle class but it should look good when it's done. Particularly with the chemise I'm working on.

Right now, it's doublets. I need to make a black wool doublet and a grey one. I'm leaving the black wool one plain but I might add some trim to the grey one. We'll see.

Comments

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

That looks great!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see it on the lady I made it for.