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dragonlady7Today's new project was hoods.
I am taking a guess that since it has been a cold and rainy spring, and now a cold and rainy summer, that it will continue cold and rainy on the whole throughout the summer. This means that it is important that I work on weatherproof gear for Pennsic.
So I made a pair of nice wool hoods today, for me and Z. I partially flat-lined them in silk noil. They are dark gray. I cut them out both at the same time, approximately based on this pattern but according to a pattern image I downloaded the .jpg of and can't find the webpage for again. It references a "Mistress Tangwystl", who apparently devised this cutting layout for maximum fabric efficiency. It didn't seem all that efficient to me, so I tweaked it a bit to be more like the one on Carlson's page.
Eh.
Though I cut them out together, one is slightly larger, and the linings are wildly different sizes. I am going to have to either sew the edge of the lining pieces down in back, or piece another bit in there, for one of the hoods, but the other one had excess silk at the back, which I folded over to flat-fell the seam with.
I machine-sewed the basic construction throughout. I plan on embroidering them just a tiny bit around the opening, to cover and reinforce the machine stitches there. I am going to piece the shoulder part of it-- I want it to be longer, to come down completely over the neckline of my lowest-cut gown. Dunno if I'll make Z's longer. I might.
The pattern didn't leave enough room for the neck, but I don't mind piecing that too-- it happens I have scraps that are the right size and shape. I am deciding whether to really do buttonholes, though...
Because I figure, if I'm prepared for it to be cold and damp... it won't be. :) Murphy's Law states that whatever can go wrong will, at the worst possible time; as I've explained, my personal voodoo system holds that the worst possible thing is the thing that you are not prepared for. And so if you are thoroughly prepared for the things you most dread, then... they won't happen. (Or, logic explains, they will happen, but won't be so bad after all because you're prepared.)
So I've got to lay in stock of some more good weatherproof rain stuff. As soon as I get the tent again, I want to set it up with the shade fly over it and see if that works. It has its own rain fly, but I'd rather have double coverage, with the option of, if it's hot, removing the rain fly and having the shade fly be a small distance away. (The tent is not well-ventilated with the rain fly on. A shade fly overtop would not only keep the tent dry, but would allow the screen roof to be open. I'm thinking of the Pennsic before my first, which was legendarily sauna-like-- alternately pouring and 100 degrees. What hell would that be, to be trying to sleep in a stuffy tent in the rain at 110% humidity and 90 degrees for the 4th day in a row while mold actively eats your pillow and you're coming down with trench foot? At least I'd like to be able to have some ventilation.)
I have numerous spare tarps; I'll see about getting some hooks and rope, and being prepared to make coverings for camp walkways with them, and the like. (I think I donated a tarp to the camp for the shower curtain, so I'll replace that one again...) If the shade fly thing works, I could even make a tarp wall on the windward side to keep the rain out properly. This needs to be experimented with.
And I have more wool, so I'll make Z a wool tunic, and maybe if there's enough left I'll get a tunic or coat out of it. I made myself a pseudo-wool V-neck gown last year, and I will finish it properly... I really ought to line it with something, but don't have anything to hand. It's a shame to waste silk on pseudo-wool. I suppose I could use cotton, but that wouldn't add much warmth.
Meanwhile I have a very lightweight linen dress done, and have a lightweight cotton and a lightweight linen tunic laid out for Z. The trousers are all going to be made assembly-line style some night when Dave-not-my-Dave comes over-- he needs some too, so we're just going to make a whole bunch with the pattern Nez gave me and I've tested. (I might make one more practice pair if Dave doesn't come soon.)
Maybe the fact that it's raining AGAIN and I'm freezing is factoring in my thought processes here...
I am taking a guess that since it has been a cold and rainy spring, and now a cold and rainy summer, that it will continue cold and rainy on the whole throughout the summer. This means that it is important that I work on weatherproof gear for Pennsic.
So I made a pair of nice wool hoods today, for me and Z. I partially flat-lined them in silk noil. They are dark gray. I cut them out both at the same time, approximately based on this pattern but according to a pattern image I downloaded the .jpg of and can't find the webpage for again. It references a "Mistress Tangwystl", who apparently devised this cutting layout for maximum fabric efficiency. It didn't seem all that efficient to me, so I tweaked it a bit to be more like the one on Carlson's page.
Eh.
Though I cut them out together, one is slightly larger, and the linings are wildly different sizes. I am going to have to either sew the edge of the lining pieces down in back, or piece another bit in there, for one of the hoods, but the other one had excess silk at the back, which I folded over to flat-fell the seam with.
I machine-sewed the basic construction throughout. I plan on embroidering them just a tiny bit around the opening, to cover and reinforce the machine stitches there. I am going to piece the shoulder part of it-- I want it to be longer, to come down completely over the neckline of my lowest-cut gown. Dunno if I'll make Z's longer. I might.
The pattern didn't leave enough room for the neck, but I don't mind piecing that too-- it happens I have scraps that are the right size and shape. I am deciding whether to really do buttonholes, though...
Because I figure, if I'm prepared for it to be cold and damp... it won't be. :) Murphy's Law states that whatever can go wrong will, at the worst possible time; as I've explained, my personal voodoo system holds that the worst possible thing is the thing that you are not prepared for. And so if you are thoroughly prepared for the things you most dread, then... they won't happen. (Or, logic explains, they will happen, but won't be so bad after all because you're prepared.)
So I've got to lay in stock of some more good weatherproof rain stuff. As soon as I get the tent again, I want to set it up with the shade fly over it and see if that works. It has its own rain fly, but I'd rather have double coverage, with the option of, if it's hot, removing the rain fly and having the shade fly be a small distance away. (The tent is not well-ventilated with the rain fly on. A shade fly overtop would not only keep the tent dry, but would allow the screen roof to be open. I'm thinking of the Pennsic before my first, which was legendarily sauna-like-- alternately pouring and 100 degrees. What hell would that be, to be trying to sleep in a stuffy tent in the rain at 110% humidity and 90 degrees for the 4th day in a row while mold actively eats your pillow and you're coming down with trench foot? At least I'd like to be able to have some ventilation.)
I have numerous spare tarps; I'll see about getting some hooks and rope, and being prepared to make coverings for camp walkways with them, and the like. (I think I donated a tarp to the camp for the shower curtain, so I'll replace that one again...) If the shade fly thing works, I could even make a tarp wall on the windward side to keep the rain out properly. This needs to be experimented with.
And I have more wool, so I'll make Z a wool tunic, and maybe if there's enough left I'll get a tunic or coat out of it. I made myself a pseudo-wool V-neck gown last year, and I will finish it properly... I really ought to line it with something, but don't have anything to hand. It's a shame to waste silk on pseudo-wool. I suppose I could use cotton, but that wouldn't add much warmth.
Meanwhile I have a very lightweight linen dress done, and have a lightweight cotton and a lightweight linen tunic laid out for Z. The trousers are all going to be made assembly-line style some night when Dave-not-my-Dave comes over-- he needs some too, so we're just going to make a whole bunch with the pattern Nez gave me and I've tested. (I might make one more practice pair if Dave doesn't come soon.)
Maybe the fact that it's raining AGAIN and I'm freezing is factoring in my thought processes here...
