Oh, also...

[mandie_rw]

RE: the 16thc jacket...I've started to wonder whether it would not be smarter to make it out of wool? You know...October. Potential cold. That kind of thing. I'm pretty attached to the shade of green of my linen that I was going to use, but I wouldn't mind it out of some forest-green wool I've got either.

Only down side to using that green wool is that, well, it's already in a dress. My green medival dress, to be exact.

On the one hand, I do like this dress. It's comfy (yeah, ya think? IT'S NOT FITTED) and drapey and wicked fun to swan around in. That train! On the other hand, I'm not super-super attached to it, it's not a very exciting dress, and I made it four years ago and have worn it a grand total of twice. There's just no reason for me to do medieval!

There would be a few other options for jacket-fabric in the stash, except I really want the green & orange color scheme! So it's either sacrifice the medieval dress and have nice warm wool, or save the dress and have my ideal color scheme, but possibly (probably?) be cold.

HELP HELP I CAN'T MAKE DECISIONS.

Comments

[the-aristocat.livejournal.com]

If I were you, I would sacrifice the old dress, I'm ruthless like that. :) But now that I'm just giving an advice, I can't bring myself to say you should cut up something so beautiful.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Hah, you're no help at all! ;) I think I am going to sacrifice the dress after all, after much thought...I have projects I can use the linen from the underdress for as well, so I think that decides it!

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

are you planning to stay past sundown? If you're going to leave before say 6ish you'll probably be fine with the linen. BUT if you're gonna stay through finale or joust it's going to dip very quickly into the 50s and I'm guessing you'll want the wool. I have some frozen memories of evenings at faire. Third idea, don't you have alot of other types of wool? could you just flatline the linen with wool for warmth?

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Well, depends on what you all do (if you all go home I don't really want to stay by myself!), but I usually stay for the joust anyway...it's a far enough drive that I like to stay all day to get my money's worth! So to speak.

And I actually do have some Ugly Wool that I could use for lining, that's a good idea - but I've realized I can use the linen from the underdress for another project, so that decides it. Dismemberment it is! :D

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

IF Rob and I go...and it's a BIG if, we'll probably stay late or even over with friends so we're probably not the ones to take your cues from....