hoist the Jolly Roger!

It's your fabric that we want, and your fabric we shall have!

Kindly granted use by flummoxicated, who can't remember where she originally found it.

I should make a flag of this and fly it outside my house :P

Two Harry Potter films and ~200 yards of silk thread* later...

Today I huddled up on the sofa with "Chamber of Secrets" and "Prisoner of Azkaban" to make a final long-winded "push" on the doublet. I have largely succeeded :)

All of the buttons are now on, all of the buttonholes are now finished. I may add one additional button near the top to make sure there are no blade-friendly gaps, but even so, all that remains would be that button and hole and hooks and eyes for the collar (the buttons are round beads that might feel "choking" if pressed into my neck by the mask).

Pictures forthcoming, hopefully including me in full kit with Vera once my over-the-knee socks arrive :)

* No exaggeration: each button and hole took about 3 yards of thread each. I used up almost 2 spools of 110 yards each on this thing!