oooo - pretty!

Ya know - I just love silk.  Wish I could have more of it  <sigh>

Still chunkin' away at the triangles and dress trim, but needed a bit of break and thought I'd get started on the entari.   Cut out the black linen and then started eye-balling the gray silk that will be the lining. 

The plan is thus - Cut most, if not all of the edging off and move it front opening, around the neck and maybe the bottom;

use the striped part of the silk for the sleeves
and for the top of the lining;

should (?!?!) have enough of the silk left to completely line the linen, with lots showing on the outside (the re-positioned edges) and having the gores slit to flash.

It may seem odd to have the silk inside the linen, but structurally, it makes sense.  The silk is pretty fine and while the linen isn't monstrous, I think it would hang really weird.  Plus, I really like the look of the black with the gray and silver accents

Layer 2 DONE

Woohoo (again) !!!

The dress is Finished!  Just completed the hem and the sleeves.

(Will post pictures of the extra credit (braided trim) as soon as it is attached.)

Layer 1 - Extra credit

Here's a picture of the fingerloop braid and eyelets I did for the side lacings on the salvar (pants).

The braid pattern is the one color version: a round lace of v bowys -- c. 1475 found at fingerloop.org

Layer 1 - DONE

Hallelujah  and pass the peanut butter.

The gomlek and the salvar are done ;o)   Front, side and back pictures - as requested.

slowwwwwly making progress

It has almost been a month since I last posted - bad, bad, bad.    Super way busy with what seems like 3 full time jobs (I only get paid for one) ;o)

However - over the past few days, I have made some progress.  I removed the sleeves from the dress,  lowered the top of the side gores, cut about 2 1/2 inches from each shoulder and put the sleeves back on.   MUCH BETTER.   I'll do some before/after pictures once I have the whole thing put back together.

Next step with the dress - finishing frenching the other side and hand-stitch the seams down, hem the sleeves and bottom and it is DONE!