janestarz | When does the hurting stop....

I know I shouldn't sew under stress. I generally never do. I'll just grab ye olde costume from the cupboard or even cancel an event to avoid sewing under stress. It always turns right around and bites you if you try anyway.
Today isn't any different.

I nearly proceeded to cut out four mantua body pieces. How? Well, I had figured that it might have been wisest to open up the fabric and lay the body piece next to the selvedge on either side. It would leave a 30 cm scrap on one side, as the arm bit would otherwise overlap, so I would offset one side.

I open up the fabric, fold it double widthwise and proceed to cut out on pair of mantua body bits. Ready to proceed to the other side, my brain catches up with my scissors and I realise I have just cut out two body pieces where I had intended to cut one. This is not as bad as actually cutting four body pieces in stead of two, but still...I was left with a strip of fabric 70 to 85 cm wide and nearly 3.5 meters long as well as the rest of my cloth.

Not to worry though! This is something you can do with historical costuming and not with modern dressmaking:
Cloth is woven, but back in ye olde days the looms came up to a certain size. Pieced pattern pieces were not unheard of. The mantua pattern said so too, speaking of the width silk came in.
This is how I came to cut my side gore into two pieces, after first having taped the turning gore to it in the proper place. You could argue my turning gore just became really big too, if you like.

*sigh*
I will now continue sewing and probably making mistakes and blogging about it to entertain the masses. To be continued, no doubt.