kirtle progress
Jun. 13th, 2019 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI don't think I mentioned that I changed my mind about the kirtle construction - I decided to make it with a waist seam and straight skirt panels, rather than gored. Mainly because I want to wear 18thc pockets under this, and I was afraid gores and no waist seam would make pockets full of crap look bulgey and ridiculous... Plus I can generally wrap my brain around skirt + bodice construction better.
So, I made the skirt - sewed the panels together (leaving gaps at side seams for pocket slits, natch) and leveled from the top. I know exactly how much I need to leave to account for my butt, from years of making 18thc petticoats, so that was the easiest way to do it! I didn't hem it yet though, to give myself some wiggle room for length once it's attached to the bodice.
Also finished pad-stitching the bodice interlining to the linen top and sewed the main seams, so I could do one of those hold-it-awkwardly-in-the-back-and-see-if-the-fit-looks-vaguely-ok try-ons. Thoughts on this:
- May need to trim down the armscyes, they seem like they might be pinchy.
- Bodice is probably too high in CF, may have to trim that down as well.
- There is definitely going to be some under-boob crumpling. Not wildly shocking, as the thing's made of one layer of middle weight linen and a layer of duck. Only boning is at the CB just to prevent eyelet wonkiness! Not sure how bad crumple will be, have to put in eyelets so can do proper try-on before deciding what, if any, action ought to be taken. (The point of this kirtle is that I want to see what no boning will do, but I also don't want this outfit to look like ass, so.)
Up next: eyelets! Yay. Haven't had enough of those recently.
So, I made the skirt - sewed the panels together (leaving gaps at side seams for pocket slits, natch) and leveled from the top. I know exactly how much I need to leave to account for my butt, from years of making 18thc petticoats, so that was the easiest way to do it! I didn't hem it yet though, to give myself some wiggle room for length once it's attached to the bodice.
Also finished pad-stitching the bodice interlining to the linen top and sewed the main seams, so I could do one of those hold-it-awkwardly-in-the-back-and-see-if-the-fit-looks-vaguely-ok try-ons. Thoughts on this:
- May need to trim down the armscyes, they seem like they might be pinchy.
- Bodice is probably too high in CF, may have to trim that down as well.
- There is definitely going to be some under-boob crumpling. Not wildly shocking, as the thing's made of one layer of middle weight linen and a layer of duck. Only boning is at the CB just to prevent eyelet wonkiness! Not sure how bad crumple will be, have to put in eyelets so can do proper try-on before deciding what, if any, action ought to be taken. (The point of this kirtle is that I want to see what no boning will do, but I also don't want this outfit to look like ass, so.)
Up next: eyelets! Yay. Haven't had enough of those recently.
