The moral of this checklist is, “Pick a period and stick to it.”

General

  • Figure out how to finish the spot where four seams meet
  • Get a real ironing board
  • Make a mockup of Burda historical dress
  • Make a mockup of modern Simplicity tunic pattern, maybe out of the green “Indian” quilters cotton that I rejected as a Mongol underrobe
  • Make a hat from the Simplicity pattern

Tudor

  • Research
    • What was the standard corset shape? Was it attached to another layer, or not?
    • What style has the spiffiest hats?
    • What style is the least sweltering to wear?
    • How many pieces can I buy rather than make?
    • What can I do with the fabric I already have?
    • Is there a photo of an outfit I want to reproduce?
  • Start with the corset, and use the Custom Corset Pattern Generator to make a basic front-laced corset mockup

T-Tunics

  • Add rear gore to rose dress
  • Add rear gore to green dress?
  • Finish tacking down seams on green dress
  • Wash green dress already
  • Serge seams of teal overtunic
  • Wash teal overtunic–gently
  • Finish the green cotton failtunic, maybe as a sleeping tunic

Ottoman

  • Make yellow entari – Begun August 7, 2016
    • Based on original pattern used in dark purple entari/ferace, with minimal shoulder sloping and a band of quilter’s cotton along the rear shoulders for stability. Will have pockets.
    • Was able to cut the front and rear panels, all the hip panels, and one sleeve from ~two yards of 60″ fabric.
    • Used yellow linen/cotton that I originally bought for a Morgan Bible-style dress. Theoretically it’s the same fabric as went into the Big Green Dress, but it feels thicker, sometimes almost leathery.
    • And yet it’s thin enough that the color of the clothes underneath show through. Considered lining it with cotton gauze, but the gauze I have isn’t thick enough. Regular cotton doesn’t have enough stretch to work with linen. I can spare enough linen gauze to line to the bottom of the hirka, but it would make the entari thick and warm. Considering doing it anyway, and making the yellow entari winter garb; if the pattern works, I can use the red tablecloth linen to make an unlined summer entari.
    • Haven’t chosen a facing fabric or color.
  • Wash purple hirka
  • Copy pattern of purple hirka with corrections
  • Make a mockup of the copied pattern with armpit gores instead of a solid seam, and see if that works better than the standard pattern
  • Finish dark purple entari/ferace
    • Dust off, literally
    • Fix and bind neckline
    • Fix sleeves–make shorter, possibly a little narrower, cut out curve
    • Reinforce seams so they don’t stretch
      • Never make anything out of Joann’s linen/rayon blend ever again
    • Find out what kind of lining is appropriate for a ferace; make sure it’s either dark or synthetic, because the fabric bleeds like a sonofabitch
    • Hem
    • Add pockets, because screw you, bell curves that make my hips look like they’re wearing ass-jodhpurs they’re actually period!
    • Add spiffy rows of braid? But first, source washable braid
  • Finish “Persian” chemise
    • Add gores to sleeves to get bell curve
    • Add missing armpit gusset
    • Finish seams
    • Wash
  • Finish Egyptian chemise
    • Finish cuffs
    • Finish seams
    • Finish collar
    • Hem
    • Find someone who wants it
  • Get the lightest possible batiste or linen gauze and make a Turkish chemise
  • Finish orange shalwar
    • Get crotch curve right
    • Decide whether to slim lower legs more
    • Add a button to lower cuffs
    • Finish waistband comfortably
  • Create a working pattern from the orange shalwar
  • Make shalwar out of the blue-and-white Indian cotton
  • Make a workable hat
  • Find shoes
  • Somehow, at some point, make a complete set of shalwar, chemise, hirka, and entari that I can wear in public

Viking

  • Finish gathered linen serk
    • Finish sleeve
    • Add second armpit gusset
    • Hem
  • Finish red apron dress
    • Insert gores
    • Fit rear seam
    • Add straps
    • Trim the hell out of it
    • Hem
  • Make blue serk to go with red apron dress
  • Make green apron dress more fitted
  • Make purple trim for green apron dress; add trim
  • Waterproof shoes
  • Make a pair of blue trousers to test theories about crotch curve; if it works, fix green trousers
  • Work on green trousers
    • Wash
    • Make pattern from trousers after washing
    • Replace gathered waistband with flat waistband
    • Add pockets
    • Fix crotch curve?
  • Alter striped Mongol trousers to become Viking trousers Finished August 5, 2016 – not bothering with pockets for now
    • Unpick cuffs
    • Make new, wider cuffs out of linen
    • Raise crotch
    • Add pockets? All poofy trousers need pockets
  • Make an insultingly loud tunic in clashing colors to go with the striped Mongol/Viking trousers
  • Finish jacket
    • Add sleeves
    • Fiddle with overlap
    • Make the outer layer
    • Trim

Mongol

  • Finish purple mockup robe
    • Finish collar
    • Add cuffs
    • Decide whether inner flap is wide enough
    • Sew on ties
    • Hem
  • Think deep thoughts about outfit with blue gauze underrobe and patterned blue/olive overrobe
  • Make veil/cowl out of silk gauze; possibly test with cotton gauze first
  • Ponder shoes

Japanese

  • Finish summer kimono
    • Finish sleeve
    • Hem
  • Make Kimono of Many Colors