February 2007

Together with a friend I am going to make a Robe a la Francaise. We're starting with the undergarments. First we're going to make the pockethoops and later the 18th century stay.

Pattern used for the pockethoops:

Butterick B4484 (pocket hoops pictured in right top)

Pattern for the robe (J.P. Ryan pattern):

Pattern pieces for the pockethoops are cut out. Marking the boning on the underside panels:

Boning inserted in the underside panels:

Boning inserted in the side panels:

Marking the boning on the main panel:

Grisley (my cat) is "helping" us :-)

Boning cut to the right size for the main panel:

Pleating the top of the main panel:

Connecting the top to form the hoop:

November 27, 2007

After months of doing other projects, we are going to start with this project again. First of four pockethoops is now finished.

Underside panel attached to main panel:

Side panel pinned to main and underside panel:

March 28 , 2008

Today we continued with the other pocket hoop. Here are the two pocket hoops finished, before attaching the waistband.

And here after attaching the waistband. You can really see the right period silhouette take shape:

Pockethoop pleated to waistband:

We still have two more to make!

This is the fabric we are going to use for the robe:

We draped the fabric over the pockethoops to see how it's going to look:

We are really pleased with the pockethoops and how it all looks sofar. This robe is going to be beautiful!