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Project Elf Chain
Feb. 25th, 2012 11:51 amAnother long one coming up, you might want to sit down and brace yourselves for impact have a cup of tea to go with this.
Project Elf Chain is still ongoing. Until I've set the final ring in this thing it's not going to be dubbed "finished". Lately I've been working on getting the armscyes closed. At Drachenfest last year we had a sleeve cap of scales and last entry of this project I had attached the underarm 4-in-1 and lengthened the sleeve somewhat.
I've also been working on a little scalemail skirt to go with it. I wasn't quite sure about the skirt though, so I wanted to see how the entire outfit would look together. It's always a tight squeeze to get into these garments (you don't want flappy chainmail!) but even more so if it has to go on the mannequin because she can't be bent and prodded and bulged into the right shape.
Yesterday I was still working on closing up that armscye. Here's how I marked it.
If you lift up the sleeve, you can see a crease forming at the underarm (even though the mannequin is quite armless). I figured that's the point where the increase should start so I could create a kind of half-circle to fit the sleeve to the armscye. I marked the place where this happened, but I didn't want to do the increase in one point so there's two places to increase.
( More behind the cut )
At the very least I've got some experimenting to do and I can just see myself sewing a new, better fitted gambeson for swordfighting lessons in another dark green. Ah, the work! The angst!
Project Elf Chain is still ongoing. Until I've set the final ring in this thing it's not going to be dubbed "finished". Lately I've been working on getting the armscyes closed. At Drachenfest last year we had a sleeve cap of scales and last entry of this project I had attached the underarm 4-in-1 and lengthened the sleeve somewhat.
I've also been working on a little scalemail skirt to go with it. I wasn't quite sure about the skirt though, so I wanted to see how the entire outfit would look together. It's always a tight squeeze to get into these garments (you don't want flappy chainmail!) but even more so if it has to go on the mannequin because she can't be bent and prodded and bulged into the right shape.
Yesterday I was still working on closing up that armscye. Here's how I marked it.
If you lift up the sleeve, you can see a crease forming at the underarm (even though the mannequin is quite armless). I figured that's the point where the increase should start so I could create a kind of half-circle to fit the sleeve to the armscye. I marked the place where this happened, but I didn't want to do the increase in one point so there's two places to increase.
( More behind the cut )
At the very least I've got some experimenting to do and I can just see myself sewing a new, better fitted gambeson for swordfighting lessons in another dark green. Ah, the work! The angst!
