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.
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