Weekly patternmuster (Knitting)

I am still all about lace...

This time, I am showing you a gorgeous lace dress.

It has so much I love in knitting. 

It is the Seashore Blouse (Though it is more like a tunic or a short dress for me).

The summer of Rococo: Petticoat and waistcoat

As I already said, since I was making three sets of rococo clothes, sometimes I did forget to make pictures... So the pictures of the finished items should be suffice.

Just like with the petticoat and the waistcoat...

As for the petticoat, the 18th century skirts are the simplest of things. Practically two squaresm and two waistband (or rather ties). The only trick is to balance the length, according to what kind of structure we are wearing underneath. If it is some kind of bumpad, then the back is left longer (just how much, depends on the type and size of the said bumpad), if there are some kind of panniers, then the sides need to be longer. They usually achieve this by cutting the skirt out, try it over the underwear and adjust it at the waist.

Which would require another person to help, which I did not have, and so, the back is slightly too short, but, since I left enough material at the hem, I can adjust it anytime. 

The fabric for the petticoat is the same damask/brocade (I don't really know which) that I used back in early summer, for the white waistcoat, with the tiny flowers.

The waistcoat is adjustable at the back. As for the pattern... there is none. I modified a pattern I had for the jacket (more about that, when I'll get around to write about the jacket). For the back I used linen. Just when I got the silver and blue brocade, I also scored some smallish pieces of linen (about 1-2 meters), and though i was intending to use them for something else, maybe for modern clothing this time, they suited this set of clothes much better than anything else could. 

And here is me, trying to get a breather from the blazing sun, and the heat in a bookstore... 

Fabric: I Love Textil 

Photos: Norbert Varga @Bodeszphoto

Short Comment

Back to the basics. Knitting lace again.

 

Weekly SO

 My strong opinion this week is that I think it is very much contraproductive, that social media (I saw this both with Facebook and Instagram, but maybe FB is the worst offender), keeps you offering people and pages to follow.... but as soon as one does follow someone, the algorythm pushes them back and you see much less of them, than when you were only liking their posts (without following them). 

Did you noticed this, or is it only my feeling?

Ancient finds - finishing a sock

This sock has been in the making since... I don't even remember... 

I had the yarn, since.... I don't really remember, not even where did I get it (though I usually remember, even the small bits of sock yarns), but it is one of those mainly cotton (and some wool and acrylic) sockyarn I have a big box of, and I had this ball on my shelf, right next to my bed, to use it... soon. 

But it was there for years.

I also don't exactly remember, when I actuall started it, as it was "knit in the car, when dark" category, and to top it all, I knitted it with a smaller than usual dpns (however, I do remember, that those needles were bought with one of my packages I ordered from Ice Yarns, but they do not have the sizes printed on them... they might be 2 mm, or a bit smaller than that).

The socks were in that small bag I put the small knits (like socks, mittens) into, along with the minimal tools /notions I take with me - if I take that bag at all. 

If I force my mind to think hard on the issue, I would say, that most probably I started the socks right after we bought my purple boots in Prague, which was at least three ir four years ago. (I don't remember ever writing about those boots, should I?)

The socks got pushed away quite often, as I knit mostly historical stockings in the car (when I have enough light), and shorter, less shaped socks get the nighttime knitting. (Yikes, I just checked, and I did tell you this, probably more than once, last time when I showed you my other modern socks).

Anyhow, we did travel, and I had other reasons to sit in the car, or places, I did not want to take the much bigger historical socks (or did not want to think about knitting, just knit in the round mindlessly), and they did get finished. 

Weekly Pattern Muster (Sewing)

 

This week I am bringing you the Paris Top from Fiber mood. 

It has a foldover cut and ruffles, so it has a flattering cut and a bit of romance. 

The summer of Rococo - Riding Habit Shirt

Before I made any big decicion about the Riding Habit, I  started to work on, what I thought the simplest item... the shirt. 

I thought an all out ruffled shirt is, what I want. But then, I have not made a historical shirt for myself (at least the traditional "men's cut" shirt, I did not)... I had a piece of nice, optic white cotton linen fabric, and I started with handhemming the ruffles. 

(I have no idea, why this picture is out of line, and I cannot make them line up... sorry.)

And then I made the collar and the cuffs.

And then proceeded to sew up the shirt, but I cannot find any pictures of the shirt itself, only, when I tried it on later, with the waitscoat, I saw, that the nexk-ruffle, with the high closing waistcoat might not be the best idea.

I left it as it is, but the thing would not leave my mind, also, I was just finishing up a longer piece of handmade linen lace... 

And I was thinking, that I spent about two years making that lace, and how I am always going on, making lace that I CAN use, so here is the perfect opportunity, and how cool would it be to have my own handmade linen lace on my shirt? 

Thus the last evening, before we left for the event, (just after I got home from performing / doing living history at the world famous Island Festival /Island of Freedom... it had many names since it started), I dug out from my stash a fairly old (probably bought it before Covid) linen, that was thin, almost like some gauze, then cut out and started sewing the shirt

I've put it together enough that the machine sewn seams were done, and I could finish the seams, and other stuff by hand, which I did in the car and the hotel. 

Because just to make my life easier, about two days before Norbert decided, he wanted to see/photograph the partial eclipse, and we left a day more eralier, than we planned...

Here I am in the hotel-room, cutting the thread after sewing up the last button. 

The shirt on a hanger on the hotelroom's door...

and on me:

I did take both shirt with me to the event, but it was VERY hot and I grew rather attached to the lace cuffs (which will have an effect later on, but that is a whole different story), so I washed it at night, and wore only the lacey one. 

However, I am sure that I did not made the other one for nothing, as there WILL be an event, when I will need both, besides, if nothing else, it did serve as a mock up, now, I do know, what size I will have to cut my pieces, if I want to make another shirt.

P.s.: I was asked, what do I do about thee lace when I wash the shirt... do I take it off? 

Well, no. I wash the shirt with hand, then iron it carefully, using spay starch on the lace parts,