27/07/2006
Cut pieces for the bottom plum stripe.
06/08/2006
Cut the lining for the bottom plum stripe and begun sewing the pieces.
07/08/2006
Finished sewing the plum and began seaming the white lining.
08/08/2006
Finished seaming the lining and attached it to the plum wool.
09/08/2006
Seamed the narrow plum and red stripes.
11/08/2006
Ripped the seam finishes on the wide plum stripe and sewed them down again. Attached the narrow red and plum stripes. It took about 5 hours to do that one long seam.
12/08/2006
Sewed the narrow red stripe to the wide plum stripe.
13/08/2006
Seamed two parts of the top part the skirt. The third part was still wet, so I couldn't sew that.
14/08/2006
Finished the top part the skirt.
17/08/2006
Began sewing the final horizontal seam of the skirt.
18/08/2006
Continued sewing the final horizontal seam of the skirt.
19/08/2006
Finished the last horizontal seam of the skirt and sewed the lining to the wide plum stripe.
20/08/2006
With Dorothea's help made the pattern for the bodice and cut out the lining.
22/08/2006
Cut out the top layer of the bodice and began sewing the front piece.
23/08/2006
Finished sewing the front piece.
24/08/2006
Finished sewing the bodice.
26 and 27/08/2006
Eylets, and lots of them.
29/08/2006
Finished the bodice and attached the skirt to it.
30/08/2006
Sewed the final skirt seam.
I am this close to finishing the kirtle! It is wearable as it is and I may not do anything to it until after Raglan; but I want to put a lining to the narrow plum band, an enforcement strip to the waist and shorten the shoulder straps. When all that will happen remains to be seen.
31/08/2006
Fingerlooped a string for the lacing.
07/09/2006
Fixed the front waistline. I discovered that it was too low while trying on the doublet, the rest will stay as it is.