Wow.

[soldiergrrrl]

I'm sure there's a less fabric-intensive way to cut a cote....but I'm not finding it right now.

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[quodscripsi.livejournal.com]

cut it to make the pattern or cut it from the cloth to make the garment.

[lorihalia.livejournal.com]

What kind of cote? Can you take a pic or sketch out or something what your layout is?

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

It's an eight panel cote, but it's got a very full skirt. I'll take pictures when I'm done. So far, I've got almost all the cote and lining cut out. Go me!

[lorihalia.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[rixende.livejournal.com]

That is one of the drwbacks to that particular pattern, however you will LOVE the results. However, you can probably have some decent cut-offs to use for making clothes for the rug-rats, or for applique.

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

:-) I love the pattern, even if it does take a whale of a lot of fabric. :-) I feel SO girly in it!

Oh, and I know I won't embarrass anyone in it, too.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, and it may be on the aotc Yahoo Group (or maybe even the AgeOfTheCotehardie group) is a set of putative layouts for cutting out cotes with minimal fabeic useage.

found them! Don't know if they'll still be there or not, but check out formfunction.org/temp/4-gore*.gif -- ok. Those pages aren't there any more -- neither is the web site (and I just checked the wayback machine. Anyway -- She shows getting a cote from 3 yards of fabric (the least amount of fabric) but in that one one gore is upside down -- so you could probably pull out of 3.5 yards. Anyway, the hem is 160" ...

If you want to email me or message me (or poke me on facebook) and either give me a snail mail address and/or a fax number -- I can get these layouts to you in the next couple of days.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah -- these are 4 panels plus gores .....

[estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com]

I think you are worried too much about the nap of the fabric...but you've already cut the cote now, so ignore me if you like...

In period, clothing was cut to save fabric as much as possible, because it was expensive...not the labour. So there's a tonne of piecing and it matters not sometimes, which way the grainline or nap is headed. Now that fabric is cheap and labour expensive, we waste a lot of fabric. Next time, don't fret so much about it. Just dive in and cut it out!

BTW, I'd love to see pictures when it's done

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

For the first one, I went with a plain black cotton something or other. :-) If nap didn't matter so much, then I'll see what I can do with the cinnamon.

Thank you! (And I rarely ignore those who know more than I do! It's a good way to get them to stop sharing information with you!)

[fieryredhead.livejournal.com]

What Rix said. With this particular pattern and how it is made you have to suck it up on the fabric. My cotes take 10 yards of fabric as I cut the skirt really wide in order to be able to fit over the hindquarters of a horse. So I feel your pain!

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Wow. Looks like I'll just have to buy more fabric.

Darn.

:-D

Actually, I do need some red corduroy to make a red and white cote, so it's good to know how much more I'll need.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

If there's any nap to the fabric whatsoever? Nope. There is no halfway-efficient way to lay it out. At least, not that I've ever found.