I promise, I have some projects that I photographed almost every step of the way, while I was sewing them, I would only need the time to write up the posts on them, however, having a few jobs, and a few time-consuming hobbies gives me precious little time...
Until then, you will have to do with pictures of finished objects, one of which had me make 67 handsewn textile buttons for it.
It was for a girl, who recently joined the reanactment foundation, who is also working in one of the museums, we sometimes have events at.
She wanted a late medieval kirtle, and while we were looking at pictures, we decided (no, she decided :-) ) she likes those that have buttons on them.
For base I used the pattern we made years ago, when I made my late medieval/early renaissance worker's class kirtle, and transformed it down on size considerably, then made a mock up, asked the girl to free up a couple of hours so we could fit the heck out of it to her body.
As it was done in the period, we used two layers, the undershirt, and the kirtle.
The sewing itself is my usual mixture of sewing the long, inside seams with the machine, and doing everything else (mostly felling down the edges inside) by hand. So no machine stitches can be seen from the outside, only handstitching.
The front edges have a rather hard canvas inside, for the button-loops I used cotton embroidery threads.
The buttons were made from leftover fabric-pieces, and were filled leftover pieces that were kind of shreded to even smaller bits.
