Ooooh, you FOLD the hem!! I have never bothered to find out why that blind hem setting on the machine made no sense to me at all, but that is so simple and makes so much sense.
I love how you also showcase errors. It makes me come to terms with my inner perfectionist. Seriously, through watching these videos it makes me a confident seamstress in realizing that mistakes small or large are all 100% a part of the process. That way I don’t hate myself or scrap my project because I messed it up. 😃
I just attended a class on Saturday where we learned ball buttons. It was fun and not all that hard. Advantage: no purchasing, buttons match garment, and you use up some scraps.
Much better to be too large than too small, belts solve a multitude of sins, especially on a man, and in period clothes were often second hand it inherited, thus often bigger than needed.
I'm a trans man who had always loved historical costuming, so these videos make me so happy! It's always felt like I have to choose between being comfortable and presenting as a man or having fun and making garments I adore.
I saw a low star review on Amazon that said something like, "The instructions said to make a mock up, but I've been sewing for decades and didn't have the time to make one anyway. This pattern is bad because the finished dress doesn't fit right!" Sure. Blame the pattern.
@@beagleissleeping5359 :) Not to worry! I'm sure it was nothing important since honestly I can't remember it. Likely just more incoherent, sleep-deprived babble that RUclips will never miss.
I realized that this video is over 2 years old , but I must say .... I really appreciate the way you explain what /how/why you're doing it. You have a plain and simple way of explaining things . And that's absolutely great!!! Some go off on a tangent and start talking about steps that they wouldn't do, thus confusing people.
As a designer I love the way you are prepared to have a best guess and go for it even though you may have to go back and redo it. The more one does that the better one gets at guessing. I enjoyed the video very much, thanks from merry England.
Hurrah! Love seeing the self-drafting process. And thank you so much for showing the hand sewn buttonholes. My hand sewing skills are rubbish, but making buttonholes with my sewing machine is such a headache, so here is a perfect chance to perfect things. Will save me from wanting to throw my machine out the window and will give me something to practice until perfect.
I love both methods, although machine buttonholes greatest strength (speed!), means that I just tend to mess up faster! :p Hand sewn means I slow down a little, and usually get things right :D
Other people: learn how to sew by watching tutorials on how to sew pyjamas, circle skirts etc. Me: Learning how to sew by watching Morgan and Bernadette :D
I know what you mean. I knew how to sew a little before discovering costubers, but they're really what sparked my interest in sewing and introduced me to several new techniques.
Oh, I've always put wooden pearls inside fabric buttons - I just started doing this when I had no research material available. Your description showed me a new technique I'll definitely try out! :)
Oh, and one accidentally swapping sleeves, etc. The night before my Laureling, I was up most of the night, finishing my elevation robes (as on does...). At about 2:30am, I realized that I had CARTRIDGE PLEATED one of the sleeves (these are basically academic gown style-- HUGE) on SIDEWAYS. I had a sewing room full of friends (and Rotrude, of course), who were finishing the application on the Laurel leaves on the eight miles of hems, so there was much commisseration, but I still had to pull it out and start over. 😢 Fell over at twenty to 5.
This was lovely. I particularly like how much I kind of learnt by accident about pin placement, using tape for easy seam allowance depth, etc. Enjoyed the video production and style too.
I love this series! Besides repairing clothes I only ever made a coat of arms for my knight of the cross(my 2year old). Very simple 2 colours and a red cross in the middle. The inside was a mess, but I was so proud of it. This year I want to make him a 'robin hood' type of tunic. Not sure how to do that though, but this series had given me a lot of advice, for instance to use an old shirt to take a pattern, the aglets, types of stitches, etc. Thank you!
Thank you very much for the Tutorials, they are realy Great!!! Can't wait for your next Tutorial for the Hood. What I would also love to see is how you make the Clothes of a Carpenter's Wife, including a period Coat and Hood for colder evenings.
Thank you for this video! I’m ready to take on a new project for my husband for Renaissance festival garb. And might I say, Mr. Donner is a handsome fellow, indeed!
I am not a sower (is that how you say it?), I'm a knitter, however it's really interesting to see the process for sewing a item of clothing vs how I would do it in knitting. I wish someone would make a channel like yours but with knitting as I really love medieval and renaissance clothes, but sadly patterns don't seem to be as plentiful for knitted items (or I'm not sure if knitting was a thing that far back)
There isn't much in the way of medieval knitting, but there's tons of extant knitted items by the end of the 16th century! I know for sure that there were hats, gloves, socks, jackets, and bags by then. Check out www.larsdatter.com/knit.htm for some lovely examples! I don't know anything about patterns, but there's got to be a few out there! A youtube channel on historical knitting would be great, you should be the one to start one!
dresden The Wikipedia page on the history of knitting mentions paintings of Virgin Mary knitting that date from the late 14th century, by which time knit items have begun to appear in tax records.
Exciting, That's a neat trick. It's like a sewing action movie. Well done. I'm curious how a practical garment like this evolved over the centuries, or didn't evolve. How does a carpenter's tunic hold up, where would most of the patches be found? (or tears which can be random). [I wonder what the Romans and Greeks did. I can't see workers, male or female in any rigorous physical tasks fussing with togas all day long.] I have very clear memories from being a child in museums looking at old garments, uniforms, etc none of them looked the least bit comfortable and a lot of the dresses looked like they wasted a lot of fabric. I was a pain in the butt kid, probably not paying attention, but these sorts of questions form the foundations of my questions about the garment aspect of clothing. And people seem to forget. I grew up in Detroit wearing mostly cotton. I remember my feet would go numb about Thanksgiving and stay that way until May. The wool socks that were available fell apart in a few weeks. Synthetics were a huge innovation, but stank. I finally got an Icelandic wool sweater at some tourist shop and began discovering that people in the past weren't primitive incompetents. Something else I've learned. When traveling and camping, and even at home I often like to sleep in a sleeping bag liner. What I think I've discovered is that even in a nicely made bed, lots of covers that drape over the side... there must still be drafts which interfere with sleep. (I usually sleep really good, but with a liner I sleep even better). So my 'drafts theory' of bedclothes, taken over to clothing. I would always want to know, how well do these historical garments keep people warm and cool, where are the drafts? and what did people do about them? And (to dig my nonsense hole even deeper) I think perhaps the 'most perfect' historical garment is the Inuit caribou anorak, because it kept people comfortable in the most extreme conditions on the planet. And it's design is similar to your carpenter's tunic.
This was incredibly helpful! Between this video and a site that told me the measurements to take for a t-tunic, I was able to make a pretty decent looking tunic on my first try! A half circle skirt with pockets is the most complicated piece of clothing I'd attempted until now. I made errors and managed to correct them.
I am once again using this video to make a much better tunic than my first one. It looked decent but definitely had some issues. I've become a much better seamstress in the last 10 months (but still by no means a great one)
Oh the so familiar final stitches in the car on the way... Well done! Also, can I just add that I am delighted to know how to make those bobbley little buttons? Genius. Additionally I am happy to see you know the proper buttonhole stitch ;)
So satisfying! I made a hand drafted dress based on an existant dress I made previously in 8 hours! Sadly I wish I had a period chemise or smock undertunic thing to go with as the dress is wool and scratchy
My goodness you're a patient seamstress. Where you unpicked the hem to sew the side seam I would have said, "Screw it" and just sewn it down leaving the inside seam allowance showing from the bottom. I laughed about your sleeve comments too. So many sleeve mistakes in my history. I tend to be extremely careful now. Love the videos. That polkadot underdress is gorgeous! It's a shame it has to be hidden.
I popped by to use this video as a reference for the buttons of an off the shoulder cloak that I'm making! It's nothing fancy just using up some... more plastic than wool blend fabric into a garment that I can easily shed should it start to melt on me
@@MorganDonner, I have a Kingdom A&S competition tomorrow so what am I doing right now? Yup. Steaming linen to make a new dress for an extra layer in our -33 wind chill weather. YAY 9th century norse persona with ALL THE LAYERS OF WARM!
Notches!!! The easiest way to prevent putting sleeved wrong. Honestly so far puting front sleeve setting point (FSS) and back sleeve setting point (BSS) was the most useful in work flow trick I've learned. You mark them arbitrarily front and back on the place of the armhole dividing the armhole circumference where you dont want to ease the sleeve in to the armhole under the arm and keep the surplus of the sleeve on the top of the armhole. It helps a lot with movement of the arm. You do one notch in seam allowance in thr front and two notches 1 cm apart at the back. And of course you mirror them on the sleeve. Honestly it's a foolproof method to improve sleeve setting experience
The fabric button! Always wondered how those were made. When you were choosing the piece of fabric you said one of them wasn't big enough -- how do you gauge how much fabric a pattern will take? Do you lay them all out or do you just know from practising? I find that so daunting when I'm buying fabric for a homemade project, especially if it's got a directional pattern; I'd rather have too much than too little of course but overestimating is expensive! Do you have any tips?
It looks great. You make so much cool historical garments. I was wondering about the pattern books you use. Are you going to make a video/blogpost about that? :)
Great video! My kiddo and I recently joined the SCA this has been a great series to watch. Where did you get your books? I’m used to patterns and have done quite a bit of sewing that way. I feel lost trying to make my own. But for basics I’m not finding affordable options and making my own seems the way to go.
Awesome! I purchased most of my costuming books from Amazon (I'll update the description box to include those), but occasionally there will be a merchant at an event with books. They are handy to have! I couldn't afford patterns when I started, so plunging in through self-drafting is how I learned to sew! Now that I could probably afford to buy some patterns, I don't bother since I have gotten along fine without.
I buy from medieval event merchants and thrift stores if possible, since I like to see and feel the fabric before buying. If I need specific colors, or I am just hunting for deals, I'll often search Ebay for wool, and hope that it is nice when it arrives. Buying online can be a bit of a gamble!
I’ve recently discovered your work via Bernadette Banner! But I’m a SCAdian from AEthelmearc and hope to meet you at an event some day. Vivat to you for creating these tutorials! They (and you) are glorious!
I have no idea what's expensive or not but all linen commercially available in sweden is between $12 and $14.5 per metre. So the difference between historical recreation linen and modern linen is negligible at best. Don't know wether that's lucky or not... at least it's all marked environmentally responsible? Ironcally the historical wool is way cheaper than modern but it's still about $30 per metre at the thin side. ..... i am not at all doing research.
Not me debating if i should attempt to make this for my dad whose a 60+ year old woodworker and would most likely not wear it cuz its not "work clothes" for him ;W;'
Wait… you were packed and ready for an event 2days before the event? I don’t understand. Starting garb the day before an event … that I do understand. 😊
They are nearly identical, really only varying in application, but the mechanical stitch is pretty much the same. I feel that folks are more likely to call something a fell-stitch if they are trying to keep the thread somewhat hidden, and this is often used on the seam allowance inside a garment (folding the excess down and felling it inside) - I tend to think of whip stitch as the version where you don't care how visible it is (or perhaps you are even specifically intending it to be visible as a decorative element). I feel folks are more likely to call it a whip stitch if you use it to join two pieces of fabric (rather than just tacking down a free edge like with fell). I hope that helps at least a bit!
Why are you using a glover's leather needle when making the button holes? The sharp triangular edges of the needle will cut the threads that make up the fabric which makes the fabric weak and easy to rip. A glover's needle is meant for leather and it literally cuts a hole into the leather. A normal sewing needle has a real hard time piercing leather, so people have invented a needle with cutting edges on it to cut holes through the leather to bring the sewing thread through. You should use a normal sewing needle which is designed to push the threads of the fabric aside to allow the sewing thread through. This causes far less damage to the fabric which helps keep it strong. Other than that, nice tunic. The fabric button technique was interesting. I haven't seen a fabric button done that way before. Usually people just take a normal plastic button and cover it in fabric. Making a 100% fabric button was cool.
Sometimes all you have on hand is a wildly inappropriate needle, and you just have to make do! You are absolutely correct, it's not what I would recommend using! Fortunately, this fabric has enough of an open weave that it didn't hurt anything too badly I suspect.
I admit, it always baffles me why you sew the side seams first then add the sleeves. They're so much easier to put on, then sew the side seams. Awesome otherwise.
The traditional last-minute handwork on the drive to the event. Been there, done that.
It’s not a real event without a panicked rush to finish sewing something.
Ooooh, you FOLD the hem!! I have never bothered to find out why that blind hem setting on the machine made no sense to me at all, but that is so simple and makes so much sense.
I would love to see more garb for mr Donner!!
I love how you also showcase errors. It makes me come to terms with my inner perfectionist. Seriously, through watching these videos it makes me a confident seamstress in realizing that mistakes small or large are all 100% a part of the process. That way I don’t hate myself or scrap my project because I messed it up. 😃
I just attended a class on Saturday where we learned ball buttons. It was fun and not all that hard. Advantage: no purchasing, buttons match garment, and you use up some scraps.
Much better to be too large than too small, belts solve a multitude of sins, especially on a man, and in period clothes were often second hand it inherited, thus often bigger than needed.
Karen Blackburn
You can always take in a garment that is a little too big, but it’s a lot harder to enlarge one that is too small.
Larger clothes is much more comfortable. I hate the feeling of clothing restricting my movement at all
yes and they made the hems on girls skirts large so they could let them out as they grew. Very smart IMO.
@@DeterminedDIYer Me living in the poverty part of the UK having the same hems on my trousers growing up
I'm a trans man who had always loved historical costuming, so these videos make me so happy! It's always felt like I have to choose between being comfortable and presenting as a man or having fun and making garments I adore.
I saw a low star review on Amazon that said something like, "The instructions said to make a mock up, but I've been sewing for decades and didn't have the time to make one anyway. This pattern is bad because the finished dress doesn't fit right!"
Sure. Blame the pattern.
x'D x'D
I saw someone zero star a pattern a while back because the person purchased the wrong pattern- which clearly was the pattern's fault.
@@thecourtlyalchemist sorry! I deleted a response I made to you. I was repeating my own comment. Duh.
🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼
@@beagleissleeping5359 :) Not to worry! I'm sure it was nothing important since honestly I can't remember it. Likely just more incoherent, sleep-deprived babble that RUclips will never miss.
I realized that this video is over 2 years old , but I must say .... I really appreciate the way you explain what /how/why you're doing it. You have a plain and simple way of explaining things . And that's absolutely great!!! Some go off on a tangent and start talking about steps that they wouldn't do, thus confusing people.
As a designer I love the way you are prepared to have a best guess and go for it even though you may have to go back and redo it. The more one does that the better one gets at guessing. I enjoyed the video very much, thanks from merry England.
Thank you! I am a big fan of just going for it, and hoping for the best. At worst, I learned something :D
As a designer I'm very much envious! I get overwhelmed by prepping too much usually for my historical garments especially XD
Hurrah! Love seeing the self-drafting process. And thank you so much for showing the hand sewn buttonholes. My hand sewing skills are rubbish, but making buttonholes with my sewing machine is such a headache, so here is a perfect chance to perfect things. Will save me from wanting to throw my machine out the window and will give me something to practice until perfect.
I love both methods, although machine buttonholes greatest strength (speed!), means that I just tend to mess up faster! :p Hand sewn means I slow down a little, and usually get things right :D
I use a two pencils taped together with some scrap wood in between to mark seam allowences.
Ooo, that is very clever, thank you for sharing!!
Could use an adjustable compass.
Other people: learn how to sew by watching tutorials on how to sew pyjamas, circle skirts etc. Me: Learning how to sew by watching Morgan and Bernadette :D
I know what you mean. I knew how to sew a little before discovering costubers, but they're really what sparked my interest in sewing and introduced me to several new techniques.
Oh, I've always put wooden pearls inside fabric buttons - I just started doing this when I had no research material available. Your description showed me a new technique I'll definitely try out! :)
Oh, and one accidentally swapping sleeves, etc. The night before my Laureling, I was up most of the night, finishing my elevation robes (as on does...). At about 2:30am, I realized that I had CARTRIDGE PLEATED one of the sleeves (these are basically academic gown style-- HUGE) on SIDEWAYS. I had a sewing room full of friends (and Rotrude, of course), who were finishing the application on the Laurel leaves on the eight miles of hems, so there was much commisseration, but I still had to pull it out and start over. 😢
Fell over at twenty to 5.
This was lovely. I particularly like how much I kind of learnt by accident about pin placement, using tape for easy seam allowance depth, etc. Enjoyed the video production and style too.
Thank you! I am still very much a video noob, but I love it when people say I am doing a good job! :D
YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY! So happy you've decided to keep making videos.
Yay, me too! It has been a fun project!
That was CRAZY fast work! 👋🏼
I love this series!
Besides repairing clothes I only ever made a coat of arms for my knight of the cross(my 2year old). Very simple 2 colours and a red cross in the middle. The inside was a mess, but I was so proud of it.
This year I want to make him a 'robin hood' type of tunic.
Not sure how to do that though, but this series had given me a lot of advice, for instance to use an old shirt to take a pattern, the aglets, types of stitches, etc. Thank you!
Thank you very much for the Tutorials, they are realy Great!!! Can't wait for your next Tutorial for the Hood. What I would also love to see is how you make the Clothes of a Carpenter's Wife, including a period Coat and Hood for colder evenings.
That would be fun! The book I am using as a reference does have a few ladies (mostly cooks) so that is totally doable!
Thank you for this video! I’m ready to take on a new project for my husband for Renaissance festival garb. And might I say, Mr. Donner is a handsome fellow, indeed!
Ohhhhhhhhhhh thats how a blind hem works!! I've always seen that stitch on my machine but never looked up how to use it
This is an excellent overview of several finishing techniques along with a fun project! Thx.
The fine tradition of sewing the night before an event.
really appreciate the care on the sleeves since my crest is crossed seamrippers on a field of curses
I am not a sower (is that how you say it?), I'm a knitter, however it's really interesting to see the process for sewing a item of clothing vs how I would do it in knitting. I wish someone would make a channel like yours but with knitting as I really love medieval and renaissance clothes, but sadly patterns don't seem to be as plentiful for knitted items (or I'm not sure if knitting was a thing that far back)
There isn't much in the way of medieval knitting, but there's tons of extant knitted items by the end of the 16th century! I know for sure that there were hats, gloves, socks, jackets, and bags by then. Check out www.larsdatter.com/knit.htm for some lovely examples! I don't know anything about patterns, but there's got to be a few out there! A youtube channel on historical knitting would be great, you should be the one to start one!
Morgan Donner thank you so much for the info!!
dresden
The Wikipedia page on the history of knitting mentions paintings of Virgin Mary knitting that date from the late 14th century, by which time knit items have begun to appear in tax records.
For middle ages do you also know how to nalbind aka needlebind? Just curious because I'm a lone wolf out here
YES I am more of a knitter than seamstress as well and would love to see more historical (or even just experimental) knitting ❤
Exciting, That's a neat trick. It's like a sewing action movie. Well done. I'm curious how a practical garment like this evolved over the centuries, or didn't evolve. How does a carpenter's tunic hold up, where would most of the patches be found? (or tears which can be random). [I wonder what the Romans and Greeks did. I can't see workers, male or female in any rigorous physical tasks fussing with togas all day long.] I have very clear memories from being a child in museums looking at old garments, uniforms, etc none of them looked the least bit comfortable and a lot of the dresses looked like they wasted a lot of fabric. I was a pain in the butt kid, probably not paying attention, but these sorts of questions form the foundations of my questions about the garment aspect of clothing. And people seem to forget. I grew up in Detroit wearing mostly cotton. I remember my feet would go numb about Thanksgiving and stay that way until May. The wool socks that were available fell apart in a few weeks. Synthetics were a huge innovation, but stank. I finally got an Icelandic wool sweater at some tourist shop and began discovering that people in the past weren't primitive incompetents.
Something else I've learned. When traveling and camping, and even at home I often like to sleep in a sleeping bag liner. What I think I've discovered is that even in a nicely made bed, lots of covers that drape over the side... there must still be drafts which interfere with sleep. (I usually sleep really good, but with a liner I sleep even better). So my 'drafts theory' of bedclothes, taken over to clothing. I would always want to know, how well do these historical garments keep people warm and cool, where are the drafts? and what did people do about them? And (to dig my nonsense hole even deeper) I think perhaps the 'most perfect' historical garment is the Inuit caribou anorak, because it kept people comfortable in the most extreme conditions on the planet. And it's design is similar to your carpenter's tunic.
I really like that grayish green fabric
oh, those beautiful, authentic, machine sewn garments...
a pleasure!
This was incredibly helpful!
Between this video and a site that told me the measurements to take for a t-tunic, I was able to make a pretty decent looking tunic on my first try! A half circle skirt with pockets is the most complicated piece of clothing I'd attempted until now. I made errors and managed to correct them.
I am once again using this video to make a much better tunic than my first one. It looked decent but definitely had some issues. I've become a much better seamstress in the last 10 months (but still by no means a great one)
That's a Herringbone weave...or not...not sure...🤔
👍🧝♀️🧙♂️Awesome video, thanks Morgan!!!
Very nice!. Love the buttons and your voice over
Oh the so familiar final stitches in the car on the way... Well done! Also, can I just add that I am delighted to know how to make those bobbley little buttons? Genius. Additionally I am happy to see you know the proper buttonhole stitch ;)
Wonderful.Really enjoyed watching this.Love your dogs!! ❤️from Cumbria.UK xxx
I love your pincushion on the back of your hand
The Website you recommended is awesome!! Thank you
Wow you are talented. That might as well have been magic.
Aww, thank you!
I really want to go to one of those rennaissance fairs
I enjoy your tutiledge.
Love, love, love those buttons!!! :)
So satisfying! I made a hand drafted dress based on an existant dress I made previously in 8 hours! Sadly I wish I had a period chemise or smock undertunic thing to go with as the dress is wool and scratchy
My goodness you're a patient seamstress. Where you unpicked the hem to sew the side seam I would have said, "Screw it" and just sewn it down leaving the inside seam allowance showing from the bottom.
I laughed about your sleeve comments too. So many sleeve mistakes in my history. I tend to be extremely careful now.
Love the videos. That polkadot underdress is gorgeous! It's a shame it has to be hidden.
I popped by to use this video as a reference for the buttons of an off the shoulder cloak that I'm making!
It's nothing fancy just using up some... more plastic than wool blend fabric into a garment that I can easily shed should it start to melt on me
Very nice and instructive, thank you!
Ah ha! Looks very much like a G63 though less full in the body. Dead easy, looks good on everyone. 😊
Woohoo! Nothing like sewing garb the day before the event!
I like that grey color
wow that's awesome 👍👍👍
It just occurred to me now. The Donner ( sewing) party! Hope nobody gets stranded on that camping trip! Lots to eat for a while anyway.
WHY AM I WATCHING THIS I NEED TO SLEEP GODDAMMIT
This made me laugh so hard! I do that with EVERY. SINGLE. EVENT. I attend!
Lol, I end up doing last minute sewing too often! 😆
@@MorganDonner, I have a Kingdom A&S competition tomorrow so what am I doing right now? Yup. Steaming linen to make a new dress for an extra layer in our -33 wind chill weather. YAY 9th century norse persona with ALL THE LAYERS OF WARM!
:D Last minute layers are the most satisfying though! Hope you got it done in time!
@@MorganDonner I did!
Im having flasbacks to cranking out 20 tunics so my brothers friends could join us for lillies. . . So little sleeping lol.
Notification squad!
Your Videos are awesome!
Would you mind me recreating the pants and tunic for a school project?
Go for it! The whole reason I post these is so that people can learn and make their own stuff too!
Morgan Donner
Thank you so much!
Notches!!! The easiest way to prevent putting sleeved wrong. Honestly so far puting front sleeve setting point (FSS) and back sleeve setting point (BSS) was the most useful in work flow trick I've learned. You mark them arbitrarily front and back on the place of the armhole dividing the armhole circumference where you dont want to ease the sleeve in to the armhole under the arm and keep the surplus of the sleeve on the top of the armhole. It helps a lot with movement of the arm. You do one notch in seam allowance in thr front and two notches 1 cm apart at the back. And of course you mirror them on the sleeve. Honestly it's a foolproof method to improve sleeve setting experience
The fabric button! Always wondered how those were made. When you were choosing the piece of fabric you said one of them wasn't big enough -- how do you gauge how much fabric a pattern will take? Do you lay them all out or do you just know from practising? I find that so daunting when I'm buying fabric for a homemade project, especially if it's got a directional pattern; I'd rather have too much than too little of course but overestimating is expensive! Do you have any tips?
It looks great. You make so much cool historical garments. I was wondering about the pattern books you use. Are you going to make a video/blogpost about that? :)
Ooo, that would be fun! I'll add it to the list!
Seconded! I'd love to see a video on that
Great video! My kiddo and I recently joined the SCA this has been a great series to watch. Where did you get your books? I’m used to patterns and have done quite a bit of sewing that way. I feel lost trying to make my own. But for basics I’m not finding affordable options and making my own seems the way to go.
Awesome! I purchased most of my costuming books from Amazon (I'll update the description box to include those), but occasionally there will be a merchant at an event with books. They are handy to have!
I couldn't afford patterns when I started, so plunging in through self-drafting is how I learned to sew! Now that I could probably afford to buy some patterns, I don't bother since I have gotten along fine without.
Off the peg clothing is often imperfect too - frumpy as a rule
I have a question. I don't have a sleeve pattern. Would the medieval chemise video work for drafting sleeves?
Ahh, the time honored SCA “start a new garb project the day before an event”! Been there, done it...regularly...
I managed to sew into a neckline once!
Cute, I'm way too lazy to hand stitch that much 😉
What is the machine model? My old faithful finally quit and I'm in the market for something a little more fancy.
The curvy arms eye confuses me how does it match up to the armhole? What’s your opinion on one peice patterns?
Can you please share the pattern and sizes for this particular project?
When I'm sewing garb my mantra is, I hate sleeves! Lol
When/why did one-piece sleeve seams migrate from the back of the arm to the underarm?
Where do you get your fabric? I was going to get some from korps, but it was way too expensive with shipping to the us and foreign banking fees.
I buy from medieval event merchants and thrift stores if possible, since I like to see and feel the fabric before buying. If I need specific colors, or I am just hunting for deals, I'll often search Ebay for wool, and hope that it is nice when it arrives. Buying online can be a bit of a gamble!
Morgan Donner I'll have to be more observant
I really want to go to one but it hasnt been possible for me
Sorry to comment on such an old video, where do you get your wool?
tunic time
What kind of thread do you use?
Men sewing? Never! - One Medieval camp weekend later.. Oh this video is good..
I’ve recently discovered your work via Bernadette Banner! But I’m a SCAdian from AEthelmearc and hope to meet you at an event some day. Vivat to you for creating these tutorials! They (and you) are glorious!
how many pins do i need?
I have no idea what's expensive or not but all linen commercially available in sweden is between $12 and $14.5 per metre. So the difference between historical recreation linen and modern linen is negligible at best. Don't know wether that's lucky or not... at least it's all marked environmentally responsible?
Ironcally the historical wool is way cheaper than modern but it's still about $30 per metre at the thin side.
..... i am not at all doing research.
Not me debating if i should attempt to make this for my dad whose a 60+ year old woodworker and would most likely not wear it cuz its not "work clothes" for him ;W;'
How you cut arm
Wait… you were packed and ready for an event 2days before the event? I don’t understand.
Starting garb the day before an event … that I do understand. 😊
What is the difference between a whip stitch and a fell?
They are nearly identical, really only varying in application, but the mechanical stitch is pretty much the same. I feel that folks are more likely to call something a fell-stitch if they are trying to keep the thread somewhat hidden, and this is often used on the seam allowance inside a garment (folding the excess down and felling it inside) - I tend to think of whip stitch as the version where you don't care how visible it is (or perhaps you are even specifically intending it to be visible as a decorative element). I feel folks are more likely to call it a whip stitch if you use it to join two pieces of fabric (rather than just tacking down a free edge like with fell).
I hope that helps at least a bit!
@@MorganDonner awesome! Thanks!!
We all have a free roaming pattern pieces.
Bernadette said sleeves are the devil's work
Im pretty sure everyone hates sleeves
What book do you have for patterns i would like to get one
rachel freeman I am a big fan of all the Janet Arnold "Patterns of History" books, and the Tudor Tailor series is great too!
Why are you using a glover's leather needle when making the button holes?
The sharp triangular edges of the needle will cut the threads that make up the fabric which makes the fabric weak and easy to rip. A glover's needle is meant for leather and it literally cuts a hole into the leather. A normal sewing needle has a real hard time piercing leather, so people have invented a needle with cutting edges on it to cut holes through the leather to bring the sewing thread through.
You should use a normal sewing needle which is designed to push the threads of the fabric aside to allow the sewing thread through. This causes far less damage to the fabric which helps keep it strong.
Other than that, nice tunic. The fabric button technique was interesting. I haven't seen a fabric button done that way before. Usually people just take a normal plastic button and cover it in fabric. Making a 100% fabric button was cool.
Sometimes all you have on hand is a wildly inappropriate needle, and you just have to make do! You are absolutely correct, it's not what I would recommend using! Fortunately, this fabric has enough of an open weave that it didn't hurt anything too badly I suspect.
Morga,...make..a..cloak..or..cape..one..for..guys..and..another..one..for..women
you are beautiful :)
I am just not good at pattern drafting
I admit, it always baffles me why you sew the side seams first then add the sleeves. They're so much easier to put on, then sew the side seams. Awesome otherwise.
But why sewing machine... It is not correct for medieval/renaissance period :(
Because I needed done in a day lol. Handsewing is better suited to projects that aren't needed right away :)