Lazy Sunday...

Today has been a bit slow, but sometimes even I need to chill out a bit so I don't wear out my brain.


I have mainly been finishing two customer commissions, which are due to be collected tomorrow. Great, it's so good to see finished work hanging all done. Good feelings. My fingers are red raw from putting on 30 odd metal buttons onto a cool frock coat, so I've just been playing around with my forage cap, making it's separate pieces and getting some inspiration for decoration:

I found this cool zip rose hair clip in my jewellery box so am going to finish off my evening wondering about how to make one.

Tg costume: Forage cap

Moving on from yesterday then:

I put up my first sketch of my TG costume. Today I have been making a pattern and mocking up a forage cap, or a side cap as it is also called. The side cap was worn for everyday use, it's main feature being that it was foldable and compact and sometimes had a peak, like in this example of a British RAF WWII cap.

As I don't actually have one to open out and figure out a pattern I am using loads of pictures of the internet to try and guess my pattern and then just putting it together. And this is what I came up with...

 I have, for ease of seeing the different shapes used a blue topstitch, there are a few tiny things that I will change, like perhaps some of the proportions, but basically I'm a pretty happy camper with this attempt!

Sometimes my brain works so well I could kiss it.