2 steps forward, how many back?

While my mom was here this weekend, she took a look at my outfit and gave me some pointers.  Don't get me wrong, she was very nice about the whole thing.  Any added emphasis is mine  ;o)

I need to riiiiiiiiiiiiip out the sleeves of the dress, shorten the length of the shoulders and drop the bottom of the armpit down a ways.  Otherwise, the dress is wearable, but not very comfortable (kind of like most of my clothes - I have rather wide shoulders and very few clothes fit, off the rack)

Anyway, I have one sleeve almost completely torn out (remember, everything has been frenched/flat felled/sewn forty million times, so it is not speedy) ;o)

If I can get them put back together in time, I'll have quite a bit of handwork to do to/from Crown this weekend, but on top everything else?  Dunno

Oh - I missed this one

I decided pleat the front and back of the pants and lace each side.

I even made eyelets  ;o)

Lotso triangles...

So here is the first triangle added

And here's the beginning of the layout - this is the back

Right now, I am rather concerned that this is going to be too small around, especially with a gadzillion layers underneath.   I do have enough fabric left over to add to the girth if I need to.  We'll see. . .

Trim progress

Been braiding a lot of trim lately.

Here's the same 2 'broad lace of 5 bowes' against 2 different fabrics

My dress in the recycled cotton

The chocolate kaftan.  I might use the same patter for both items, but guess which one really deserves it?

And just for the heck of it - some others I've been playing around with 

That thing that has been taking up my time?

Well, here's a picture of it.   A very nice, parti-colored cotehardie for my sweetie. 

I used a Medieval Misc. pattern for it, which worked very well and pewter replicas of Elizabethan coins for the buttons.  The sleeves are a silky type fabric picked expressly so the poor man does not melt into a little puddle in the summer time heat (which is where he wore it for the first time).  It is definitely a winter outfit for him