And so it begins

Jennifer Kanter

Welcome to a new century! I concede. With a MoD elevation in the house in 2 months and 2 days (YAY BRIAN!), I need to actually sew 16th C like I mean it. Add in a bittersweet store-closing sale at Jay’s Fabrics, and suddenly silk and wool is coincidentally not only affordable enough that Brian gets new garb, *I* am getting a 16th C dress. After 23 years of resisting (literal) peer pressure to make something fancy. So okey dokey. Let’s do this.

The Modern Maker: Men’s 17th Century Doublets

Browsing the order of construction for Brian’s new MoD doublet before I ever pick up the scissors. Because spending my sca early years wearing baggy tunics with “Flashdance” necklines taught me something.