I am asked to make His Royal Majesty some new clothes. I am deeply honored. I have made two set for Her Majesty Anna. I like to think I did well on both sets. Hers were so very lovely and easy to make. You see she had a pattern. Which with only a little modification I was able to use. King Bela's however is a page of drawn pattern pieces with associated numbers for measurements. I have spent some time looking at these figures and patterning them out. But for the life of me I am having a difficult time making a 24 inch arm seam fit into a 29 inch shoulder hole.
I would scrap the entire thing and start from scratch except that His Majesty is such a very large man and I do not have access to either his self or any of his current garments which fit. the two men in my household are no where near his size, so that experience on their garb will not really help me. So my best best is to use what I have and just press on.
So why am I sitting her blogging about not being able to get this right instead of heading into the workshop? Well I guess that is because I am doing my best to put it off.
The Honorable Lady Cassandra inghean Dubhlochlainn and the Society for Creative Anachronism
yes...I like chocolate....why???
so here's a question: does that pattern actually fit as drawn? I'm having trouble figuring out how a man of his size has an 8 inch wrist and puts his arm into a 24 inch sleeve.
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