Stash Wars

It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, because I got sidetracked by having too many things to do. First of all, I was on vacation in Jordan for 10 days, making my way from North to South along the country and visiting most of the major tourist sites. It is a fascinating country in both nature and history - many of the historical sites show traces of being settled since the Neolithicum. My personal highlights were the crusader fortresses of Kerak and Shobak. I only regret not bringing a torch to Shobak, so I couldn’t get down to the well.

Last Friday morning, just when I was starting to feel at home again, having unpacked everything and done the laundry, it turned out that I had mixed up the dates in my calendar and the first early Medieval event for this year was starting the very same evening. So I made an emergency take-off to the FFC event at Herzberg, where I found out that I definitely need more warm clothes! Back home I raided the stash and found some nice woollen herringbone twill to make me a dress.

The dress is already almost finished, only waiting for me to finish the seam allowances. For the record, here’s the measurements:

Body: 64 cm wide, 152 cm long, cut one each for front and back (normally I’d cut back and front in one piece, as the dress does not have any shoulder shaping, but you may have noticed that the horizontal overstripes have a direction and I’m obsessed with having things symmetrical)

Side gores: 64 cm wide, 107 cm long, cut two

Sleeves: 44 cm wide, 57 cm long, cut two

Sleeve gussets: 14 cm square, cut two

All pieces contain seam allowances (2 cm) and hem allowances (5 cm).