#CinnamonLinenSkirt

Sini TuuliaI could have worn a bigger petticoat, but since my hat is of a slightly later end of the nineteen-oughts, I only wore the slimmer one I just made. Here with gloves also, though it was way too hot indoors for them. The jacket has so many process photos in the hashtag... I'm still not super happy with how the back and back sleeves sit, but I'll take it! <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenJacket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenJacket</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a>

Sini TuuliaI have photographed the things I made! Join me for a brief thread! Remember the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenJacket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenJacket</a> and the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a>? Here they are, also with new slimmer petticoat and Second Largest Hat, which I never previously took any good photos of.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoryBounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryBounding</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoricalFashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoricalFashion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Edwardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Edwardian</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Tailoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tailoring</a>

Sini TuuliaAlso. Remember the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a>, that I finished some time ago? Originally I was planning on putting the same black lace on the hem (and I need to check but I think have enough lace for it, too) in the spirit of Late Victorian and early Edwardian more is more... But I don't know. I think I want to, but it's also some four metres of hem to fuss the lace onto.And just how extravagant would it be to have just the tiny orange beads tucked into the lace, where they'll be safer from wear?

Sini TuuliaI'm idly planning a little jacket from the leftovers of the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> (which I've finished apart from the decoration, which I haven't yet settled on) fabric and am just pondering which year and style of sleeve I want, and how much I care about historical accuracy for something I'm making to wear and for fun... And above all, what the heck do I even want? 😆 Thus, browsing old books. It's nice.

Sini TuuliaHave been slowly attaching the hem facing to the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> while listening to an eldritch podcast. My facing fabric is a bit too dense and stiff to prettily compress, even cut on bias, so I've been both pleating little tucks into it as well as taking out wedges where the joining seams of the strip are. Victorians weren't fussed about pleats, creases and such on their hem facings, and this technique is from a period sewing manual, but I'd prefer it to be as flat as possible...<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a>

Sini TuuliaThe <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> hem has for sure settled so I could actually finish it and I'm not doing much else. Just cut up a bunch of bias hem facing out of some random crisp thin cotton I had lying around... Now all I have to do is even out the hem and attach the facing. I'm thinking I'll just overlock the one edge I'll be hand sewing onto the skirt itself with hem stitch because it's for wearing not for historical recreation. But overlocker loud and hem trimming scary 😶<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a>

Sini Tuulia<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> update: This is just after one day of hung to stretch. The hem was even and it's already warped and shifted enough to no longer be even at all! Ideally I'll even out the hem in a couple of days, but this is precisely why you leave long coats, jackets and skirts to settle before you hem them.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a>

Sini TuuliaWith a great deal of effort I have almost invisibly put on the waist lining on the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a>. Tried it on, it doesn't negatively affect anything and might indeed affect it positively... But here we are. The skirt falls nicely even sans a petticoat, which is nice. Now I just need to sew all the tacked on bits nearly invisibly!<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a>

Sini TuuliaToday in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> - I've figured out the reduction I still need to do to the waist, and have sewn up and tacked on the waist lining... But now also need to unpick a bunch and then sew it all up again. It's not horrendously difficult, just tedious! I hope that some eldritch horror podcast sufficiently tickles my brain as I do it. It's also cold as heck so I've donned a shawl and a Winter Bird Brooch, the latter for morale purposes.

Sini TuuliaI need to take in the back darts more, but it fits well enough that you get a little clip with me wearing it! Gosh the linen moves so nicely, and I didn't fuck up the pattern drafting it seems!<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoryBounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryBounding</a>

Sini TuuliaToday in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> I put all the main skirt pieces together and now would need to try it on, with appropriate petticoat, to see if I need to increase the darts or anything else. This would of course mean taking my current clothes off for a little bit and it's cold so I don't want to. We'll see. 😶

Sini TuuliaI have accomplished the fiddliest bit of the entire <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> - the placket. First you sneakily sew the eyes inside the seam. (Here in the wildly shaped by a very wide gore side back seam.) Then you finish the rest of the seam, do it on the other side as well, press, baste a heck of a lot, put on the hooks as well matching points, then tidy up with another facing by hand.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HandSewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HandSewing</a>

Sini TuuliaContinuing the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> by working on the fiddly bits. Have hand tacked all the darts, cut out the waist lining, idly blanket stitched the placket sides and put on the eyes of the hooks & eyes while listening to a delightful horror podcast. In a very little bit I might actually do some machine sewing on the actual skirt pieces!<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a>

Sini TuuliaToday in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> land: I overlocked the skirt pieces last night and cut out two rectangles for the placket, and... That's it, until I can get the perfectly matching thread I ordered that is of course taking much longer to get to me than usual. I could probably sew some hooks and eyes onto the placket bits with not quite as matching thread because it gets hidden, but there's a lot of other things I should nominally be doing so I might not. And thus I wait.

Sini TuuliaMeanwhile, in what is to be the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CinnamonLinenSkirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CinnamonLinenSkirt</a> I have ironed all of my hecking fabric and it's so lovely that I absolutely do want to make the skirt out of it. Will there be enough of it for it? Is my skirt pattern absolutely garbage? We'll see! It took me about 45 minutes to iron it all so it feels like there should be enough! Relatedly, here's an old fashion illustration of what I am vaguely going for.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sewing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoryBounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryBounding</a>

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