week (or so) in bullet points

[anotheranon]

• Two snow...events. Not enough to slow things down, but enough to look pretty and make the freezing weather a little more bearable.
  
• Cut out and pieced the scholar's robe that I've been threatening to make D. for some years now. This is technically an update for the past 2 weeks as it took one weekend to draft and one to cut out/piece back together.
  D. is a tall guy, so I had to shove all the furniture in the library against the walls just to get enough floor space to draft the pattern. Cutting it out was more manageable, as the fabric was only 36" wide I cut up the pattern and pieced along the selvedges as was done in period (another example, if you scroll almost to the end).
  
  Also discovered a subtly brilliant 16th c. tailoring technique with help from the good folks at the FB Elizabethan Costuming group. I was confused when the "armhole" on the large back piece just wouldn't line up with the front. Turns out that is the back shoulder seam - the curved edge trains the bulk of the fabric backwards; the back armhole is just a straight edge. The drape is even apparent at 1/4 scale sample I ran up in scrap. Such a small change, such a large effect.
  
  To give you some idea of the size, this is just the back, and not laid out flat either:
  
  


• Go the F**k to Sleep, Avengers version is the funniest thing I've read all day. Here's Samuel L. Jackson reading the original [YouTube, starts about 1 min in, NSFW] if it helps you imagine Nick Fury reading it.


• Lesson learned from brief illness earlier in the week - sometimes it's better to just give in and be sick, hydrate and rest than try to power it out. Yes, I know, this shouldn't be a revelation, but it is.


• Weekend: getting rid of clutter and getting a proper lamp and something to put a suitcase on for the guest room.

Comments

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I may need to try another scholar's robe just to try out that version. (Also: because I haven't gotten the hang of how Alcega's sleeved are supposed to work.) the two I made for 12th night both used the back yoke approach to manage the fullness. (I think I was interpolating between one of Alcega's designs and something in Arnold.)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I originally thought I'd have to use a yoke, but couldn't figure out how to draft one. I'd love to see photos of your finished robe, if you have them!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

There are some linked to on my fb account (taken by other people). See if this works:

3/4 back view (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4149339055356&set=t.1848155179&type=3&theater)
front view (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4149339015355&set=t.1848155179&type=3&theater)

If those links don't work, check my timeline photos for early January.