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gurdymonkeyFor the first time in nearly a year I had a bout of gastric reflux and I think I actually got about six minutes of sleep last night despite the fact that my neighborhood is so quiet I can hear the BART pull in to the Fruitvale station a mile away. Honestly, I did not want to write emails in my head for seven hours. I really really did not. I am not going to write the one that needs to be written yet because I know I am not sufficiently cool headed to do so.
So I dragged my ass out of bed and my head out of my ass and had a hot shower that did not involve the use of a stockpot and measuring cup. I scrambled up some of Art's lovely eggs with a bit of ham. They're almost too pretty to crack open - soft greens, subtle browns....
The brick linen says very definitely "cotehardie." I've cut out pieces based on the old muslin which is now too sizes too big. I think I'll run multiple lines of basting stitch along the back and side seams and try fitting it that way. I don't feel the need to subscribe to the Robin Netherton Pour Yourself Into This Gown Theory because (a) I don't have a helper and after the post Twelfth Night break I am ready for some handwork NOW (b) I don't have vast tracts of land, (b) I don't like tight and (c) nobody notices what I look like in cotehardies anyway.
The brown wool I got from Alail is not sure whether it wants to be a cotehardie or 12th century. It would work with that tablet woven belt I got from Ursula's Alcove at the war. The leftovers from the brick could be used for sleeve linings. Maybe a little chain stitch around the neckline..... Won't take scissors to it until I know.
The striped linen jacquard washed up SO soft, all subtle neutrals. It knew it was a kosode on the bolt when I found it at Stone Mountain last week. If the stripes ran lengthwise along the bolt, I would have no reservations about whacking it together as is. Widthwide stripes ARE period but I don't think I want to go there. It occurs to me that I could get an extremely iki effect by cutting it into blocks and piecing it together so that the stripes alternate vertically and horizontally.....
So I dragged my ass out of bed and my head out of my ass and had a hot shower that did not involve the use of a stockpot and measuring cup. I scrambled up some of Art's lovely eggs with a bit of ham. They're almost too pretty to crack open - soft greens, subtle browns....
The brick linen says very definitely "cotehardie." I've cut out pieces based on the old muslin which is now too sizes too big. I think I'll run multiple lines of basting stitch along the back and side seams and try fitting it that way. I don't feel the need to subscribe to the Robin Netherton Pour Yourself Into This Gown Theory because (a) I don't have a helper and after the post Twelfth Night break I am ready for some handwork NOW (b) I don't have vast tracts of land, (b) I don't like tight and (c) nobody notices what I look like in cotehardies anyway.
The brown wool I got from Alail is not sure whether it wants to be a cotehardie or 12th century. It would work with that tablet woven belt I got from Ursula's Alcove at the war. The leftovers from the brick could be used for sleeve linings. Maybe a little chain stitch around the neckline..... Won't take scissors to it until I know.
The striped linen jacquard washed up SO soft, all subtle neutrals. It knew it was a kosode on the bolt when I found it at Stone Mountain last week. If the stripes ran lengthwise along the bolt, I would have no reservations about whacking it together as is. Widthwide stripes ARE period but I don't think I want to go there. It occurs to me that I could get an extremely iki effect by cutting it into blocks and piecing it together so that the stripes alternate vertically and horizontally.....
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Date: 2007-03-11 03:32 am (UTC)The small knowledge I have leads me to believe that most gowns during the cotehardie time frame were pullovers. I could be completely high, but this is IMO a reaonable explanation for the lack of illustrated lacing in many many paintings. Also fits with some of the Greenland finds, I think. This is all to say - if you don't like it tight, for heaven's sake don't make it tight. I've been making cotehardies with rather unperiod high necklines for ages, because I'm just not comfortable showing off that much potential sunburn area.
Mmm. Linen.
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