I Made This!
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bloodyrosemccoyOh, and I made some stuff weeks ago and never got around to sharing!
This is my new hobby—cords. You take seven various ribbons or smaller cords or strings of beads or whatever, and you pretty much tie them in a complicated knot. I’m considering making myself a belt if I can find long enough ribbons, but for now I’ve found a great use for them!
Daja looks darn good in orange, doesn’t she? I get the distinct impression she likes more manly clothes, which in this case suggest shirt and tunic. She probably doesn’t wear this in the smithy, though.
This is actually two separate tops, and looks really spiffy.
One more shot of Laurel’s headband.
Belt. Another nifty product of the cordmaker. I’ve got a few of these now.
I have just discovered stick-on velcro. Where has this stuff been all my life?
The tunic opens all the way down—as versus some garments that are closed about halfway up. I figure since actually the tunic should be a pullover, which isn’t possible with dolls and this fabric, it doesn’t matter.
Shirt under the tunic. I wanted an open neck with a round collar. The collar’s a little wonky, but still pretty good for a beginner to collars.
Buttons are cheats—they’re sewn to the top layer, with snaps under each one. I like snaps better than velcro because they don’t catch hair. But the sticky velcro was a nice find when I ran out of snaps.
My first time really trying cuffs, and I’m proud of them. I fucked up one thing—I miscalculated how long around they’d have to be. Fortunately, I could cheat with some non-sticky velcro. If Pleasant Company could do that to Molly’s official clothes, who am I to argue?
The cool thing about the white shirt is I can make a lot of tunics to go over it, too. I’m hoping to branch into fancier clothes, since Daja’s sister Sandry* is a stitch witch and likes to make fancy clothes for her friends. But I’ll have to look for plausible fabrics. For now, Daja has a pretty good shirt.
*Who I realized would be perfectly captured by AG’s official not!Elizabeth. That’d just leave Briar …
This is my new hobby—cords. You take seven various ribbons or smaller cords or strings of beads or whatever, and you pretty much tie them in a complicated knot. I’m considering making myself a belt if I can find long enough ribbons, but for now I’ve found a great use for them!
Daja looks darn good in orange, doesn’t she? I get the distinct impression she likes more manly clothes, which in this case suggest shirt and tunic. She probably doesn’t wear this in the smithy, though.
This is actually two separate tops, and looks really spiffy.
One more shot of Laurel’s headband.
Belt. Another nifty product of the cordmaker. I’ve got a few of these now.
I have just discovered stick-on velcro. Where has this stuff been all my life?
The tunic opens all the way down—as versus some garments that are closed about halfway up. I figure since actually the tunic should be a pullover, which isn’t possible with dolls and this fabric, it doesn’t matter.
Shirt under the tunic. I wanted an open neck with a round collar. The collar’s a little wonky, but still pretty good for a beginner to collars.
Buttons are cheats—they’re sewn to the top layer, with snaps under each one. I like snaps better than velcro because they don’t catch hair. But the sticky velcro was a nice find when I ran out of snaps.
My first time really trying cuffs, and I’m proud of them. I fucked up one thing—I miscalculated how long around they’d have to be. Fortunately, I could cheat with some non-sticky velcro. If Pleasant Company could do that to Molly’s official clothes, who am I to argue?
The cool thing about the white shirt is I can make a lot of tunics to go over it, too. I’m hoping to branch into fancier clothes, since Daja’s sister Sandry* is a stitch witch and likes to make fancy clothes for her friends. But I’ll have to look for plausible fabrics. For now, Daja has a pretty good shirt.
*Who I realized would be perfectly captured by AG’s official not!Elizabeth. That’d just leave Briar …
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Date: 2009-07-27 03:30 pm (UTC)Daja looks like one of my RP characters. ^_^
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-27 03:30 pm (UTC)Also, kumihimo braiding or fingerloop?
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:49 pm (UTC)Honestly? I have no idea what kind of braiding, except that it uses a nifty little circle of wood to achieve its ends.
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Date: 2009-07-27 05:16 pm (UTC)http://www.weavershand.com/#K
http://www.braidershand.com/
The blacksmiths I know have varying opinions on what one wears to forge. Some wear short sleeves and some wear long sleeves but no folds of fabric that can catch and hold sparks/embers/bits of hot metal. I don't offhand remember if Tamora Pierce ever goes into detail about what kind of fibers are available in her universe--in our universe, cloth made of plant* fibers (cotton, flax, ramie, rayon, hemp, nettlecloth, tencel) will burn, protein fibers (sheep, alpaca, llama, cashmere, silk) will burn but only if a flame is held to them. Otherwise they scorch and go out.
*I can't give burn results for bamboo, soy silk, or corn because I haven't tested them yet. I am making an assumption for nettlecloth because it is extremely similar to flax such that without the electron microscope it is difficult to tell the difference in an archeological context between nettle and flax fibers.
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Date: 2009-07-27 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-27 08:55 pm (UTC)I still want to get my hands on some bamboo so I can include it in my fiber identification class. I have soysilk and ingeo spinning fiber somewhere, but no bamboo yet.
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Date: 2009-07-28 05:19 am (UTC)Oh, she delves deep into textiles--it's a specialty of one of the characters.
My brother says that it's engineering wisdom that cotton is your first layer of fire protection, since it burns right off--preferable to smoldering or, in the case of synthetics, grafting to the skin. (I doubt very much Daja uses polyester, though. ;) )
In her specific case, though, I think she'd work with as bare an upper body as she could get away with, since her magic makes her fireproof--so sparks on her skin would be less damaging than sparks on her clothes. If I were her, I'd go with a breastband or a sleeveless top ...
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