I decided this morning that I will get two more t-tunics to handsewing this week and then no more garb until my A&S project is ready. The moss linen is nearly assembled, and the other is a muted blue wool twill coating that I really need for cold weather.

The moss linen is just a narrowly cut gown in a very fine linen, with a keyhole neckline. No idea how I'll trim it yet, so I guess I'll just roll the edge and go on for now. If I can dig out the remainder of the silvery gray silk from TM coronation trim for flatfelling, I'll use that, which will seem white against the darker green.

For the blue twill, I'm inspired by the brooch-fastened garments described in Penelope Roger's "Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England." I think I'm going to cut this gown really deeply down the front, to deal with 'how do you get in and out of an hourglass shape', trim the edge with tabletweaving, and look for a set of 3-4 brooches to fasten it. I'm also going to put larger underarm gussets, trying for what is sometimes called a 'magyar' sleeve, since I have 4+ yards to play with.

The blue is the result of a dye experiment…the wool was deeply discounted last spring at Joann's, and was originally that classic camel color. Until I washed it with a full bottle of Rit, in Royal Blue. Now it's rather the color of my veins, a french blue, fortunately very close to one of the woad variations in a natural dye book. I'm going to use an intense yellow ("Armor Yaller" per mom) to flatfell the seams and yellow and madder-russet to do the tabletweaving.

(And I know just how I want to the tabletweaving to go, because I'm actually making PROGRESS on learning all these skills! It's just so cool to think back a year ago and compare. Have I mentioned that I've mastered the lucet now, including mistake-recovery? The 90+ inch lace needed for the back of my 1550 Flemish kirtle is luceted.)