Help me decide whether to buy a bolt of fabric

[CenturiesSewing]

Gem get the green! You can make the kirtle from Tam Lin.  I plan to one day once I decide on fabric.

Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee,
And she has broded her yellow hair
A little aboon her bree...

[Kate XXXXXX]

If you don't want the purple fabric, buy it anyway and donate it to me!  Do I count as a Good Cause?   

[gem]

Doesn't Gem just do the most beautiful kirtles? She and Centuries Sewing are my kirtle role models. I'm *GREEN* with jealousy over Gem's purplr kirtle and think she needs make a green version

Ohmigosh, you guys, you're making me blush! Centuries is MY role model--she's amazing. I've only managed to make one kirtle successfully, and really, it was a long time coming. I declared 2011 the year of the kirtle and vowed to retire my sewing machine if I couldn't finally manage to make one. Glad I didn't have to keep that vow!

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The fabric is on its way! Huzzah! When I remembered that I could get free shipping for $50, and the fabric was $42, that made it even easier. I won't be repeating the purple kirtle--sorry, all!--but it will be going into the stash... possibly for the dreamed-of-but-still-amorphous Greensleeves Gown, or for good fabric to have on hand for a new ensemble for Milord or his Mum or my forthcoming twin nieces-or-nephews or... 

[LordPaulet]

What color is it that makes it "not period"  I think we REALLY downplay the ability of those renaissance dyers sometimes...

[Wickedvox]

What color is it that makes it "not period"  I think we REALLY downplay the ability of those renaissance dyers sometimes...

Well, I suppose *someone* at *some* point may have used butter yellow, who am I to say 

[gem]

I got the green tablecloths today, and they're lovely! Sort of a soft, medium ivy green. A very nice addition to my stash! Will upload photos (to the fabriologist thread) when I have a chance.

(Which is now cast about everywhere in my office, as I was pulling scraps for a friend's granddaughter's birthday.)

[Wickedvox]

Gem I'm starting to appreciate "the stash," that underbust corset I'm making is *all* stash fabric lol! BTW that yellow fabric I got frays and sheds like my dog when it's stressed out!!! Arrrgh!!

[LadyFae]

Hey Wicked- look at my avitar pic, I'm in butter yellow and from the closeup you posted before, my material is VERY similar to YOUR material.  Rock the butter yellow, girl!

[Wickedvox]

Hey Wicked- look at my avitar pic, I'm in butter yellow and from the closeup you posted before, my material is VERY similar to YOUR material.  Rock the butter yellow, girl!

Lady Fae, I'm gonna hot rock that butter yellow till it melts and I can poor it over lobstuh!! lol! I'm going to make a pair of under sleeve covers, a forepart, and a stunning h/a bodice, mayhaps some pirate pants, a dress for the dog, slops for the husband (oh yes, he *will* wear slops if it *kills* one or both of us!), or emergency lenders....