Bored stiff

[mmcnealy]

I wish it would stop raining, then I could go for a walk and get away from the paper of doom. Maybe I'll take a break and work on stuff for the other class.... Nah, I'd lose my train of thought on this thing. I have gotton quite a bit of progress made though.

Anybody have any costuming/fit/knitting/history/research questions they want to ask me to distract me from this thing and the sounds of Matt cleaning?

Comments

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

Sure!

When you made your half circle skirt, what ratio at the waist did you use?

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

The half circle skirt is cut on a fold, so you only need to figure out the 1/4 skirt.

Do you remember your diameter and radius of a circle math?

I took my waist measurement and added NO ease. The waistline of the skirt will be on the bias and so it will stretch. If you add ease it will be too loose and slip down around the hips, voice of experience here.

Waist measurement *2 = Total circumfrence of circle

Total circumfrence / 3.1416 (Pi) = Diameter of the circle

Diameter /2 = Radius of circle.

This Radius is how far you measure from the corner of the fold, so you make a little 1/4 circle from the point.

For the bottom measurement of the skirt, add the skirt length to the radius measurement and measure down from the point for that set of marks.

Good link to help explain the math part
http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol2/circumference.html

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

Well..jeeez... I just made one of these back in March. Heheh :P

Do you think it's an appropriate skirt for a peasant italian gown?

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Do you have a particular portrait that you're trying to recreate?

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

Uh huh :)

http://linuxwitch.com/sca/garb/campi.htm

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier.

It's hard to tell what her skirt looks like because of the dark blue apron, but it could be either an A-line or half circle skirt, or a pleated tube skirt. Real decisive uh?

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

Yep, I know. I think I'll stick to a-line, as my wool supply is limited.