So, sometime during the season, while bemoaning the fact that I had absolutely *nothing* to wear to faire, the clue fairy dropped in to give me a good whack with a blunt stick and I said, "Hey! What about that grey dress that teddy told me I should actually *finish* someday?" (From one of last year's diaries.) So I dug it out of the closet, and I thought about finishing it, but I'd long since lost the fur I was going to use (more accurately, a cat left a memo on it, and it had to go byebye), and I could only find one of the lower sleeves (I swear, I thought I only had one box left to unpack!), and I never did figure out what to make a hat out of. So rather than finish, I wore a simple wired veil with it, and stamped it Close Enough(tm).
There's a great lot about the construction in the diary. It worked out pretty ok. There's a horridly annoying wrinkle diagonal-wise on the bodice to remind me that I need to take it in about 3/4" at the armscye on each side, and I should take in the sleeveheads a little at the bottom.
Beyond that, it's a rather solid little middle class number, and I kinda like it. I'm even enamored with the silly little veil. ;)
Photo Credits: Yvonne Curley, who takes some of the best darn pictures... Chainmail Girdle Courtesy of Chris Kailhoffer. If you're looking for one, I can put you in touch with him.
