Silk surcote... almost there!

[sister_raphael]

I had hopes to share a standing view with the train out behind, but sadly, a phone selfie with a timer on the camera is the best I can do for today!

I'm very pleased with this and have been using it for photos for the new books even though there's still a piece at the back to fix. When cutting it out, I somehow didn't take into account that the two types of silk, being very different types, would hang and drape differently when finished. The result was the the hems didn't line up and needed quite a bit of trimming. Obviously, wanting to keep the train as long as possible, I faced the hard choice of shortening it quite a bit to make the hem even, or, piecing a small extra wedge into the back.

In the old days, I would have just not considered the latter, but after realising that medieval people really did piece their clothes if they needed to, I figured I'd be substantially happier with a long, pieced surcote than not. I'm a bit surprised how it doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would.

I took a series of phone selfies, and many of them worked really well, so I'm feeling pretty good about that.

Wearing this circlet did bring to the forefront another issue though... the circlet is way too thick. Too much metal. I do need to make several others (which is the topic of a separate, upcoming post) so I am in the process of doing that too.

Comments

[yarnofariadne]

It looks so lovely!