Pink bits

[sister_raphael]

While I'm thinking about a few things, I'm sewing again on the pink, wool kirtle which I don't have a real need for at the moment (maybe December?) and although I haven't really decided on the final style, I will need some buttons, so I've cut some to sew in between other things and at lunch time at work.

The buttoned sleeves are a given. Fewer buttons and a couple for the neck means it's early 14th century and I can wear my pie hat and barbette which I'm in love with at the moment, BUT a buttoned front to the navel means I can button all the way up to the elbows and make it a fitted kirtle instead of a looser gowne.

I am completely torn, but I don't have more fabric to make one of each, so it's to be one or the other. I have enough fabric to make a TON of buttons, so I can see that might be where I go. and I don't have a hot weather kirtle in wool and I do have a hot weather gowne in wool in the woad blue.

Decisions, decisions...