Please, don't try this at home...I have no clue what I'm doing.

[martelvonc]

I made my sleeveless Luttrell Psalter gown for Pennsic. Problem is, I made it too big. I over estimated the size of my bits, and my height. Yes, I did indeed measure my a fore mentioned bits, and measured the fabric. I have no idea what went wrong.

Tonight I took the darn thing apart and took in the shoulders and shortened it. I still like it for a first effort. I will still be able to wear it and enjoy it after I fix it. This means extra work but it is not a disaster.

The next plan is to remake it in linen and in wool. This is once I get the bugs worked out of the pattern. How can something so simple be so hard? Oh yea, I forgot, I'm not a costumer...*face*palm*.

I will freely admit I suck at making a pattern. Give me a pattern and I can sew the heck out of it. But designing my own? Not so much.

In my little world I do have flashes of brilliance - I made the apron for this outfit, "boom" like that. No thought and it came out right the first time. The gown? Truly a labor of love. Heavy on the labor...

Comments

[albreda.livejournal.com]

Funny, I have issues with regular patterns (Kass' excepted, of course) because they are usually just so DUMB.

May I ask what your current pattern looks like for this garment??

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Do not laugh....because this is what the over-dress actually is....

a rectangle for the front and back, and the triangles for the side gores. Using a straight up rectangle for the main body made the shoulders too wide. I needed to angle this in to narrow up the shoulders.