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Made most of a Thing
May. 20th, 2015 11:47 pmApparently I cannot be left unsupervised on my days off. Usually I'm chatting online with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dragoneyes19 and/or hiraimi, who keep me in line, but Not Today! I have eight hundred already-started things I could have worked on, but naturally I decided none of them were exciting enough.
On the bright side, I should be able to finish it tomorrow!
You see, I was going through my email, and clicked through to look at a linen sale, as it's about time I buy that yard of red linen for an 18-teens spencer if I want it, and of course had to browse through the remnants, and came across a charmingly obnoxious orange/blue/white plaid that would go very nicely as a fichu with that blue/white scallop print cotton I have for a 1770s jacket...
...and then read a post on CW warm-weather clothes by the Two Nerdy History Girls on my blog list, and remembered that I've wanted to add something lightweight to my 18thc wardrobe for a while, to replace my red-and-white-stripe jacket. Because I know Virginia summers are horrid, but Philadelphia summers aren't far behind them.
So I'm calling it A Philadelphia summer jacket. ;) Ideally it might be made of a lighter-colored fabric, too, but this was the only thing that fulfilled the "lightweight and cotton and 18thc print" in-stash. Plus that plaid fichu inspiration! Because I don't have enough fichus already. Definitely not.
It's adapted from my cream stripe wool jacket pattern, to be like that infamous swallowtail jacket from Costume Close-Up that everybody and their mom has. I think at this point it probably is over-represented, but it is cute, so... add me to the horde of swallow-tail jackets. It's unlined except for the "tail" bits, which are backed with a lightweight linen. Another reason to do this kind of jacket in a print... disguises all the stitches that show through!)
dragoneyes19 and/or hiraimi, who keep me in line, but Not Today! I have eight hundred already-started things I could have worked on, but naturally I decided none of them were exciting enough.On the bright side, I should be able to finish it tomorrow!
You see, I was going through my email, and clicked through to look at a linen sale, as it's about time I buy that yard of red linen for an 18-teens spencer if I want it, and of course had to browse through the remnants, and came across a charmingly obnoxious orange/blue/white plaid that would go very nicely as a fichu with that blue/white scallop print cotton I have for a 1770s jacket...
...and then read a post on CW warm-weather clothes by the Two Nerdy History Girls on my blog list, and remembered that I've wanted to add something lightweight to my 18thc wardrobe for a while, to replace my red-and-white-stripe jacket. Because I know Virginia summers are horrid, but Philadelphia summers aren't far behind them.
So I'm calling it A Philadelphia summer jacket. ;) Ideally it might be made of a lighter-colored fabric, too, but this was the only thing that fulfilled the "lightweight and cotton and 18thc print" in-stash. Plus that plaid fichu inspiration! Because I don't have enough fichus already. Definitely not.
It's adapted from my cream stripe wool jacket pattern, to be like that infamous swallowtail jacket from Costume Close-Up that everybody and their mom has. I think at this point it probably is over-represented, but it is cute, so... add me to the horde of swallow-tail jackets. It's unlined except for the "tail" bits, which are backed with a lightweight linen. Another reason to do this kind of jacket in a print... disguises all the stitches that show through!)
