<\/a> I had made a new costume for faire about a month earlier, because I wanted a dress even if it looked like 2 pieces. \u00a0I had about a yard of scrap fabric with a nice woven pattern and decided to use it for the bodice, and got some mid-weight twill in a complementary green for the skirt and bodice lining. \u00a0The bodice is a double-side-lacing arrangement, based on my old duct-tape pattern. \u00a0The skirt is pleated in to the front and back, and the openings at the side are filled with pockets. \u00a0The proportions are loosely based on one of the Margo Anderson patterns. \u00a0The chemise is from the Margo Anderson<\/a> pattern set The Elizabethan Lady’s Wardrobe<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contents Copyright \u00a9 2015 Christine A. Doyle Stephen and I went to the Castello di Amorosa’s annual Mid-Summer festival in 2009. \u00a0It was sort of a busman’s holiday, as some of our friends from St. Michael’s were part of the entertainment (fencing demos, teaching, etc)…. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStephen and I went to the Castello di Amorosa’s annual Mid-Summer festival in 2009. \u00a0It was sort of a busman’s holiday, as some of our friends from St. Michael’s were part of the entertainment (fencing demos, teaching, etc).<\/p>\n
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