Cutting out the muslin for my new arming cotte.

1. Finish commission up to hem
2. Clean sewing room
3. Clean bedroom
4. Finish Mending
   1. Red trunkhose
   2. Blue fencing doublet
   3. Day shade
   4. Green doublet sleeves
5. Make Shirt
6. Make Brais
7. Pattern Pourpoint
8. Cut out pink doublet
9. Cut out Wool jerkin
10. Embroider on Jacket
11. Cut out Coty’s suit
12. Cut out Pluderhosen

I was going to finish the mending before moving onto anything else but once I had finished the day shade I needed to work on something else before finishing the blue doublet.  So I cut out and started assembling my pink fencing doublet.  I’ll finish the blue doublet sometime during the week.

1. Finish commission up to hem
2. Clean sewing room
3. Clean bedroom
4. Finish Mending
5. Make Shirt
6. Make Brais
7. Pattern Pourpoint
8. Cut out pink doublet
9. Cut out Wool jerkin
10. Embroider on Jacket?
11. Cut out Coty’s suit
12. Cut out Pluderhosen

I finished the first 3 today and I’ve been making good headway on the fourth this afternoon.

While cleaning up my sewing room (it was so bad I couldn’t find anything and it stressed me out just to be in there!) I found my new Venetians waiting to be put away and I realized I had never taken a picture of them for you.  So with out further ado here are pictures of the Venetians I finished in April/May.  Please excuse the mess in the guest bedroom and fact that they were taken with my cell phone.  The camera is still MIA.  I’ll be taking better pictures for the website once I’ve found the camera.

Front view of my new Venetians.

Side view of my new Venetians.

I’ve also been spending my time experimenting with boning layouts and working on my next article for Foundations Revealed.  I’m having a blast with that.

We’re planning on visiting Fort Raleigh tomorrow.  I’ll make sure to take lots of pictures for you guys.

Enjoy the holiday!

Keeping up with my marshalate responsibilities has been taking up most of my copious free time but I’m sure things will be lightening up pretty soon.  I know I still owe you guys pictures of my Venetians (I promise they are coming!) but I’m already moving on to my new doublet.  Practice last week just reaffirmed that I’m really tired of not having my spaulders for C&T and my old fencing doublet is just too old to make adding points to it worth it.  So I really need to finish my new one.   Maybe I could finish start the alterations for my other doublet that I mentioned last month (or the new mending I picked up at Sapphire Joust…).  Two new doublets!?!  I don’t think I’d know what to do with myself.

In other project related news I finally have pictures of my finished venetians.  I’ll try to get them up this week for y’all since I’ve been so slack about posting recently.  I did start my new position last week though.  It’s keeping me very busy but I’m really enjoying it.

To update you on the article I was working on when I last posted, I wasn’t able to get it finished during the week so I ended up skipping Tourney of Friends to finish it up and get it turned in.  I was sorry to have to miss the event but it worked out for the best (plus my hubby was able to make it and had a marvelous time).

I did finally accomplish some sewing this weekend.  I managed to finish a bunch of mending and alterations and I’m very pleased with how things have come out.  The last alteration I need to finish is altering the sleeves on an older doublet.  Sadly I’ve never worn this doublet because I didn’t notice the issue until after it was finished and by then I couldn’t bring my self to take it apart and fix it.  I finally took it apart yesterday and I think I can fix the issue with a little simple piecing.

Alterations aren’t always easy.  Over the weekend what appeared to be a quick pants alteration to shorten the waist band ended up taking close to 4 hours because both the lining and outer shell had to be removed from the waistband separately and then, due to the way the pants had be constructed, the only way to reattach the newly shorten waistband so that it looked right was to sew the whole thing back together by hand.  But it was totally worth it because the new pants fit better and I was able to use this opportunity to take out the cartridge pleating I had used originally and replace it with knife pleating which I think will suit these pants better.  Now it’s like having a whole new pair of pants!  Altering the doublet is going to take more work and quite a bit of piecing but it will be worth it to be able to put that piece of clothing into regular rotation.

I did get my Venetians hemmed over the weekend so we are now only ~8 buttons away from pictures of the final garment.  I just need to decide if I want burgundy buttons or pink buttons that match the trim.