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So you've seen Skelfthyrnir's basic shirt. You've heard me say my general intention for it was to act as a lining for more colorful tunics. You've even heard that it serves as a mockup, so tunics using fancier fabrics can happen.
I must admit I got fancy basically the day that shirt landed in Cryptid's hands.
Once again using Cynthia Virtue's worksheet as a guideline, and remembering to add a little length to the arms, I adjusted the sleeve heads to be more curved, later-period, and thus fancier, and played in my stash of fat quarters.
This is just a black cotton with a gold metallic overlay printed on, but it sure looks like something woven half of black wool and half of cloth-o-gold.
But I said to myself, I said, "Self," I said, "If I have to do another facing, I will scream."
So I decided to line the whole tunic. No big, dig into my stash of Old Sheet and whomp something up, right? That's what the Old Sheet stash is for, linings and mockups.
But then I said to myself, I said, "Well, it's not a very complicated shape. Instead of lining it before I do the side seams, how much harder could it be to make the whole thing reversible?"
( Come see 28 more of my pics and 17 of Cryptid's and see how much harder making it reversible actually was. )
I must admit I got fancy basically the day that shirt landed in Cryptid's hands.
Once again using Cynthia Virtue's worksheet as a guideline, and remembering to add a little length to the arms, I adjusted the sleeve heads to be more curved, later-period, and thus fancier, and played in my stash of fat quarters.
This is just a black cotton with a gold metallic overlay printed on, but it sure looks like something woven half of black wool and half of cloth-o-gold.
But I said to myself, I said, "Self," I said, "If I have to do another facing, I will scream."
So I decided to line the whole tunic. No big, dig into my stash of Old Sheet and whomp something up, right? That's what the Old Sheet stash is for, linings and mockups.
But then I said to myself, I said, "Well, it's not a very complicated shape. Instead of lining it before I do the side seams, how much harder could it be to make the whole thing reversible?"
( Come see 28 more of my pics and 17 of Cryptid's and see how much harder making it reversible actually was. )
