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Quilting and padding and layers, oh my!
Jan. 26th, 2010 12:25 pmJeff’s arming cote is going to be pretty thick. This was protection in addition to his regular armor, so that layers of linen provide some protection. I’m also supplementing with a layer of cotton batting, or “cotton wool”, as it seems to have been referred to in period.
The visible lining layer is a beautiful, heavy but drapey, beige linen. The inner layers matter a little less, so I’m using what I have laying around. The second layer on both the inside and the outside has to be solid, though, so a pattern doesn’t show through to the visible layers. Funny thing is that I’ve been using wool instead of linen for so long I don’t have all that much in the way of trash linen.
Layers will be as follows, from inside to out:
Heavy beige linen
Lightweight navy linen
Black and white stripe linen (I think it’s the same stuff that fabrics-store.com carries. I’m guessing around 7oz?)
1 layer Cotton batting
Black and white stripe linen
Mustard 5.3 oz linen (which I like, but is my least favorite of the few solid color linens I have)
Sand colored 12 oz hemp twill.
That’s a LOT of ironing. I ironed a few pieces of linen last night, and cut out two of the layers for the body pieces.
It works out to be about 1/4 inch thick, which means that the outer layer needs to be just a bit bigger than the inner lining. The trickiest part of this garment is going to be cutting to accommodate various layers of padding, and applying that padding.
( nattering about padding )
Quilting is going to be interesting. I’m hoping to start quilting the butt piece soon. I was thinking of sewing a temporary quilting stitch in with the industrial machine. That’ll punch all of the holes that I need, and make it easier to go back and do that hand stitching. Whether or not I have time to mess with the industrial this week is another question. :-)
The visible lining layer is a beautiful, heavy but drapey, beige linen. The inner layers matter a little less, so I’m using what I have laying around. The second layer on both the inside and the outside has to be solid, though, so a pattern doesn’t show through to the visible layers. Funny thing is that I’ve been using wool instead of linen for so long I don’t have all that much in the way of trash linen.
Layers will be as follows, from inside to out:
Heavy beige linen
Lightweight navy linen
Black and white stripe linen (I think it’s the same stuff that fabrics-store.com carries. I’m guessing around 7oz?)
1 layer Cotton batting
Black and white stripe linen
Mustard 5.3 oz linen (which I like, but is my least favorite of the few solid color linens I have)
Sand colored 12 oz hemp twill.
That’s a LOT of ironing. I ironed a few pieces of linen last night, and cut out two of the layers for the body pieces.
It works out to be about 1/4 inch thick, which means that the outer layer needs to be just a bit bigger than the inner lining. The trickiest part of this garment is going to be cutting to accommodate various layers of padding, and applying that padding.
( nattering about padding )
Quilting is going to be interesting. I’m hoping to start quilting the butt piece soon. I was thinking of sewing a temporary quilting stitch in with the industrial machine. That’ll punch all of the holes that I need, and make it easier to go back and do that hand stitching. Whether or not I have time to mess with the industrial this week is another question. :-)