I am the world's slowest sempstress, I swear.

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I read about people putting stuff together in two days and I wonder what the hell I'm doing wrong.  For me, even an easy project is at least a couple of days, and usually weeks. 

However, I did FINALLY get the serger working last night, and get the sleeves put together.  Now, I'm going to put the lining and the body of the cote together and see what it all looks like.  Then, I'll see about making a few more. 

:-)

Not sure what other fabrics I'm going to use, but I'm sure I'll find something.  Cotton twill would be nice and I do have some lovely silk, but I need to make sure that's back with a very very strong lining fabric to take most of the stress off the silk.  The cote is very fitted, and it has to be to support the breasts, but I'm worried that the silk will just shred if it's not back with something very stable.  Not heavy, necessarily, but stable.  Just something very tightly woven.  Probably a cotton sheeting.

If anyone's got any advice for making a very fitted cote from silk (why yes, I am looking at HRH at the moment, but she's really busy, so I'm not looking TOO hard....), would you tell me your solution?
 
The silks are from this post, the one with all the fabric pictures.  :-)  I am trying to avoid buying more silk, like oh...silk twill.  So far, I'm successful.

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Sorry, I was out of town for a couple of days. I actually live in Humble. I love hanging out with the equestrians, but it feels kind of weird. Lady Michelle and Buttercup taught me how to ride again several years ago. I usually hung out with her, Lorraine, Annaliese, and Sir Alexis mostly. I lived on Guinhavre's (I know that's spelled wrong) farm (Camelot) for a while and she taught me more about riding and creating garb. (Unfortunately, our mental and emotional issues did not mix well and I was a lousy friend to her.) I really miss the equestrians.

Who are you in the SCA? I'm Lady Edith Gray. I'm trying to turn my attention more to garb and encourage my husband to get involved in cooking. Or rather, that's what we'll do when we can go to events again.

Will you be attending the A&S event on the 14th?