SCA: Side Quest: New Casual Tunic Dress

Sometimes you want to dress down a bit, you know?  Work days at camp, slow afternoons before court, and days when I just don’t feel like wearing 90lb of jewelry. I didn’t have anything like that. 

So I made this quick little tunic dress: 

It’s linen, and hand sewn with cotton sewing thread. The color might be a bit bright for historical accuracy, but I love it. It took me about a week to make this, working 2-4 hours per day. 

The sleeves are extra long so that they’ll bunch up on my forearms, like this cute little bronze figurine: 

The darker blue binding on the neckline and sleeves is made from linen scraps from another project. I was going to add some tablet weaving to just the front slit, but I didn’t have anything already made that I liked for this, and I don’t feel like weaving à tiny piece just for this. 

And with that out of the way, I’m moving on to my next BIG project for Kingdom A&S in September.  I have six months to make three pieces and weaving all the things. 

I’ll be doing more little side quests in between working on it, though. I still haven’t figured out what to do about embellishing thst wool hood, so that’s one. I also have a tablet weaving project I want to work on in my spare time, too. More soon!