| Project | Blackworked Snood |
| Pattern or Source | Made my own,  Each square is 1 inch |
| Materiels Used | Leftovers from a very nice cream cotton sheet that matches the first Kirtle i made, DMC 310 Cotton Floss, and some Gold metallic beads for each crossing. |
| Date Started | Unknown |
| Date Finished | July 2012 |
| Problems | I pleated it wrong the first time, with all the pleats on one side. had to take it apart and fix it and it sat on my sewing desk for about a month. |
| Modifications | Apart from pleating instead of original idea of gathering, and changing the pleating, not many 🙂 |
| Project | Middle Tudor Court Gown |
| Pattern or Source | Simplicity pattern 2589 for the sleeves and stomacher, my own for the bodice and skirt. |
| Materiels Used | A very synthetic (which is why it’ll be a court gown instead of a camping event gown. I don’t want it to melt) taffeta that I got 15 yards of from the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. A pretty lilac color. The forepart and Undersleeves were made with a floral brocade I found at the thrift store, and I used some old jaquard trim I’ve had for years to border the stomacher (after this picture was taken) |
| Date Started | Feb 2010 |
| Date Finished | December 2012 |
| Status | Beautiful! |
| Problems | I had to use a different pattern than the Simplicity for the bodice. The original pattern was totally jacked up in construction, so i used a pattern i took off of a very lovely bodice i borrowed from an old friend, and used just the sleeves, undersleeves, and forepart patterns from the simplicity pattern, and just used the front from the Simplicity pattern for the stomacher. |
| Modifications | Instead of making it lace up the back, I made the back all one piece and set up the front so it has a lacing panel under a pin-on stomacher. As I generally get dressed without help, it’s darned near impossible to do with back lacing gowns. Pictures will be taken shortly to show what I mean. The Stomacher worked well, but I had to sew on hooks and eyes it so it won’t fall off – the pins fell off about 6 times during yule feast! Hooks and eyes worked beautifully for the stomacher, but for most of the rest of my dresses I’ll have to just deal with back lacing i think. Maybe side lacing on one side but with the sleeves I don’t think it’ll work. |
| Project | Middle Tudor Gown For Urslemas |
| Pattern or Source | Simplicity pattern 2589 for the sleeves and stomacher, my own for the bodice and skirt. I altered my original pattern back, to a v. Worked pretty well for helping to keep the shoulders up. |
| Materiels Used | Brown Suiting, Brown linen for lining. Light brown for the Skirt, and a Synthetic creamy brown silk for the undersleeves and Forepart. |
| Date Started | October 2012 |
| Date Finished | December 2012 |
| Status | Comfortable 😀 |
| Problems | The Skirt is two layers of a very silky material, and it didn’t cartridge pleat well at all, so i had to alter the pleats to a double box pleats, which worked amazingly well. I also had to hem it 3 times to get the correct length. |
| Modifications | Other than doing double box pleats instead of single box pleats to the back then cartridge pleats across the middle back, and having to hem it a lot, it worked out well. I like the way the double box pleats hang… it works beautifully. |
| Project | Pair of Bodies |
| Pattern or Source |  |
| Materiels Used | Heavy Cotton in cream with Woven in Textured Stripes, heavy buttonhole thread in green, bias tape in turquoise. 1/4″ Zip ties and 1/2″ zip ties. |
| Date Started | 1-1-17 |
| Date Finished | 1-17-17 |
| Problems | I’ve had trouble with the Corset pattern before, in the wearing. I added built in tabs. Trying to put bias tape around slits in fabric is a pain in the neck! |
| Modifications | Added built on tabs, did bias tape to seal edges. |