MMM Doublet Finished!

Back in December, my husband and I started on a new doublet. It had been a few years, and I now had a copy of the The Modern Maker by Mathew Gnagy. We decided to try his method (here after referred to as MMM - The Modern Maker Method). We started with a simple muslin mock, then moved on to the full garment.  In the process, there were holidays, job changes, a surgery with lengthy recovery, plus life with two kids.

It took 9 months and 100+ hours, but it's done.  The last buttons were sewn on yesterday.  It was a really interesting process, and I think we both learned a lot.  I've done a fair amount of hand sewing before, but it might just be our first entirely hand sewn garment.  I recommend the MMM, but I'm thinking that until life slows down a bit for us, I would machine sew the straight seams to save a little time.

You can check out some pictures of the process.

Migrating from the Dark Ages....

After nearly 15 years, the web server I had been using to host historical research and projects died one too many times. I'm now in the process of migrating content over here. Thank goodness for local back-ups!

I've only done minor updates to the pages since... well, kids.  So, as time permits, I'll be attempting to update things a little.  So much has changed.  New sources are available and new research has been published.  I've been vicariously following the changes through friends I follow, but hope to start participating a bit more in the coming years.

My content and I are attempting to move out of the dark ages and back to the 16th century.  Wish me luck.