Greetings
Teddy and I started work on our new Regency kit after Boxing Day.
He currenty only has his wedding suit and, whilst I have three or four outfits, they are all uniforms.
We have been collecting various period patterns and chose what seemed the best from amongst them.
We copied our respective sizes onto clear plastic sheet and then cut out calico mock-ups.
We then spent two days trying to work out why the sleeves were not sitting right.
We tried several different fixes, before deciding that the base of the sleeve was set too low.
The pattern has now been adjusted.
In the meantime, I had realised I didn't have enough backing canvas, or enough suitable lining, so we had to put in a cloth order.
We also realise that we did not have physical space to follow the instructions for pre-shrinking the wool. The instructions said to do this even if you were going to dry clean the finished kit, as dry cleaning can shrink wool..
Teddy had the idea of contacting the people who do our dry cleaning and see if they woiuld dry clean and press the wool before we cut it out. After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, they agreed to do this.
The cloth order has now arrived and the dry cleaned wool also come back to us.
I will post again when further progress has been made.
until next time
Adieu
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