Progress Pics
Mar. 16th, 2010 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chargirlgeniusI took some pictures of the arming cote last night and the night before, but I don’t have a lot of time to add construction explanation. I have a lot more pictures between the last I posted and these, but I’ll get them up eventually. Or, maybe I’ll just do a “POOF! Something Magical Happens Here!”
Hee hee!
Don’t worry! He WILL be wearing pants! Well, hose.
This was trying it on with both sleeves attached, but not finished on the inside, so they’re a tad lumpy. He’s also missing all of his chest padding. I also want to stitch around all of the seams to flatten them out a bit, but that’ll have to happen *after* this weekend.
There are also eyelets still to be inserted at the neck and at the bottom.
With the maille hauberk. He can’t put his arms all the way down, but that’s more because the maille shirt is a bit tight with all of the extra padding. He can, I believe, also wear it without the maille for the day.
Laid flat. Now I grok why the pictures of the CdB laid flat always look so weird.
The cuff finishing:
The lower sleeve and cuff opening. This still needs eyelets. The original CdB was open to the elbow with buttons, but that was a civilian garment. There’s no reason to have laces above where the wrist is so tight, so I wanted to avoid more eyelets. I also want to avoid too long of laces so that the armor has less to catch on.
The inside at the side slit (near the hip). This is where I bound the inner seam because there wasn’t enough seam allowance to do a decent flat fell. Or rather, I really didn’t want to cut anything off.
Where the arm meets the side seam, the inside. I still have to extend those quilting lines to the seam:
Where the arm meets the back, and the inside of the neckline:
Finishing the inside seams of the second sleeve. Pinned the body panels and seam allowance so they will be inside of the sleeve. I’ll fold the sleeve S/A in and pin again and sew.
Hee hee!
Don’t worry! He WILL be wearing pants! Well, hose.
This was trying it on with both sleeves attached, but not finished on the inside, so they’re a tad lumpy. He’s also missing all of his chest padding. I also want to stitch around all of the seams to flatten them out a bit, but that’ll have to happen *after* this weekend.
There are also eyelets still to be inserted at the neck and at the bottom.
With the maille hauberk. He can’t put his arms all the way down, but that’s more because the maille shirt is a bit tight with all of the extra padding. He can, I believe, also wear it without the maille for the day.
Laid flat. Now I grok why the pictures of the CdB laid flat always look so weird.
The cuff finishing:
The lower sleeve and cuff opening. This still needs eyelets. The original CdB was open to the elbow with buttons, but that was a civilian garment. There’s no reason to have laces above where the wrist is so tight, so I wanted to avoid more eyelets. I also want to avoid too long of laces so that the armor has less to catch on.
The inside at the side slit (near the hip). This is where I bound the inner seam because there wasn’t enough seam allowance to do a decent flat fell. Or rather, I really didn’t want to cut anything off.
Where the arm meets the side seam, the inside. I still have to extend those quilting lines to the seam:
Where the arm meets the back, and the inside of the neckline:
Finishing the inside seams of the second sleeve. Pinned the body panels and seam allowance so they will be inside of the sleeve. I’ll fold the sleeve S/A in and pin again and sew.
