Dear venturers, This post is long overdue, but still fitting since I seem to be on a medieval kick recently.  So let’s get right to it!   I hope to post a hair and cap tutorial at some point  Here’s my inspiration… I started by making a pattern mock up  using the basic shapes from my 18th century bodice pattern. The bodice is only 3 panels total.  The first two pieces are the front, and the top one is the back piece.  I then cut the same pieces from white lining fabric and sewed the bodice together.  I folded the brown over the white to hem the lining into the bodice. I left the bottom open. After the bodice was all sewed up, I formed the skirt from a rectangle of the brown linen and attached it to the bodice. This was the tricky part though. You want the seam on the skirt to be at the center back. This means that the slit on the front where it all laces up will have to be cut.  So not like this  Here’s how it should look (ignore how it’s pinned together in the front… it should be lac

Dear Venturers, I don’t always venture into the unknown world of medieval-y stuff, but when I do, I make the most extravagant mess of it!   So I made the mistake of looking at Jo Anne’s linen section and I saw mustard and maroon colored linen sitting side by side. I might have been watching too much Secrets of the Castle (a must-watch on Amazon Prime), but together  the two colors looked so 13th century that I couldn’t pass them by! And so, after getting as little yardage as possible, I went home to start work on my new gown. Everything was going so splendidly… one might even describe it as a dreamy, movie-scene style montage… *cue record scratch*  …until I realized that I just spent a good deal of money on linen and I know nothing about the 13th century, excepting Ruth Goodman’s glorious dress.  So I did some research *opens Pinterest* and ditched the Ruth idea and decided to go with a style known as the Cotehardie. A style picked by it’s unique short sleeves (ie. I didn’t have enough