After a long delay i've started on the mediium weight loomstate flax linen version of the hunting shirt.
I washed, dried and ironed (the latter took 2.5 hours!) the linen first to reduce any shrinkage once it's made up. It used up a little over half of a 60 inch wide 3 metre lenght of material, for a XXL version. The scraps I've cut up for turning into char at a later date.
I'll be using the same pattern as before but with just the smaller cape rather than both.
As well as being a functional item for messing about in the woods it will do for top layer for period treking (If I ever get up the bottle to do it) as the type of garment was in use for a long period.
As a exercise I intend to sew each pair of seams in a period style so today I taught myself to do lapped fell seams (or at least thats what the text called them).
First off I pinned the cloth together but with one side sticking out twice the amount from the line the seam was going to be as the other and sewed it across, in this case with a back stitch. Thats the one where you go two stitchleghts forward on one side and back one stitch lenght on the other.
Next I folded the longer edge under the shorter and pinned the whole lot down. I then back stitched through all three layers of cloth so the overlapping double lenght stitches were on the inside of the garment.
and the single lenght stitches on the outside. I'm aiming for about 10 single stitches a inch.
I chose to use white Barbour linen thread as I wanted the stitches to be visable since I am going to be hand doing the buggers!
ATB
Tom
Oh the green wool version is incredibly warm, too warm to move about in so far.