I need to work on something, I need to plan, and I had picked up this pattern from Reconstructing History. This will not fit me as the largest size is 5 inches too small in my middle and so I will be Toileing the crap of this to make it work, I also? Don't like the kirtle which to me? Looks like Henrician kirtle, and really? I don't know to my eyes like the correct time period so I am going to make my Kirtle from my Margo Pattern.
So here is the pattern I will be using for the overgown:
(https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/image_lib/FlandersGowncover.jpg)
Kirtles I have found on the net that I will be working from:
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Qz7oK8zzxoY/SRCO6pJBQpI/AAAAAAAABBE/CQUpNNMMO9Y/s400/splendorsoliskirtle_frontside7.jpg)
Sarah Lorraine's Wool Kirtle:
(http://www.modehistorique.com/portfolio/16thc/chocolate/DSCF4914.jpg) (http://www.modehistorique.com/portfolio/16thc/chocolate/DSCF4925.jpg)
Dame Drea's Kirtle
(http://www.elizabethancostume.net/wardrobe/dublet/kirtle1.jpg)
From 2008 Drea Talk:
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DmjLsKiy9Ww/SCjv62umX2I/AAAAAAAAA18/mT4s17gG32k/s512/DSCI0113.JPG)
Now this one is different as it is a Petticoat with Bodies.
A Side Laced Kirtle:
(http://bp3.blogger.com/_P3kJjgclJNA/RmNsKSxdSdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ykLVJcm8fq4/s1600-h/Cat+in+Brown)
I have this luscious 100% deep Aubergine Linen, that I have made the Tunic from so I don't have to worry this is all mine now!
It is just about 4 yards but it is 61" wide.
I have 7 yards of 100% Linen in Gray, and I want to put black as trim on that (yep, typical, eh?). Why Linen? 105 degree heat in No Cali and I do not handle heat very well. I will be using lining of Duck Cloth in white, for the bodice and there will be boning adding to the bodice, I will box pleat the gown's skirt to the bodice, and then get to play with the Gray Linen to make the gown. If this works? I have some burnt orange and reddish/purple linen that I think will compliment each other very nicely for another gown.
Musings
Cilean
Centuries made a beautiful English fitted gown from the Tudor Tailor pattern (IIRC). She has pictures posted in the Finished Projects thread.
Good luck with this! I absolutely love this look, but Milord calls it "prudish." ::)
Watch it with the RH patterns: there are fit issues with some and I've had to redraft bits of others to make them work. Make a toile and fit carefully. Oh, and watch the sizing! Some of the larger sizes for women can be inaccurately drafted. I had one that was three inches shorter round the waist than the stated pattern size measurement. And this was over a corset laced to the stated pattern size.
Reconstructing History's quality,
I sometimes think because she is a very smallish person, not over a size 10 I don't think she is. Then she is using pattern drafting program but since she is not a big person and really does not work with beta testers perhaps she misses the point on those of us who are larger? When I made her Jacket Pattern I wanted to kill myself and then her, because it was NOT anywhere near the size it should have been. so I am making a toile as soon as I finish the kirtle.
She does however have better sewing instructions, since the last time I bought from her. I notice people who are from a size 8 to a 14 are fine, I was on the great pattern guide and it seems this is so....who knows eh?
But thank you I shall be making up a toile and using it to fit before I ever cut good fabric.
I remember when I would use cut and made do, I was so naive back then! And wasted so much lovely fabric too!
Cilean