1887 Nightdress Case Progress

[atherleisure]

I've been working on a nightdress case from a "Weldon's Practical Knitting" pattern from 1887. I don't expect to use it as a nightdress case, but I thought it would be fun for sticking stuff in when travelling for costume stuff.

So far I've finished the main panel of it and gotten about a quarter of the way through the lace edging.



The pattern called for six repeats, but it ended up about 18" wide but only 7.25" long at six repeats. 1:3 is nothing like the proportions of the Montmellick embroidery nightdress case patterns in other issues of "Weldon's Practical Needlework" so I did a few more repeats. At nine repeats, it came out to 12.5", which is about 2:3, which is in the range of the Montmellick patterns. I see no reason to think that a nightdress case's proportions or size would change with the type of needlework used for it.

Comments

[hharris]

Beautiful. And this must be one of the most unique costume accessories I've heard of:)

[atherleisure]

Thank you. What can I say? The engraving was attractive, and I had this yarn that I didn't know what to do with. I've made other random stuff from Victorian knitting patterns that I will never use - I will never blue anything, but I've got a blue bag; it shouldn't be made of green yarn, but it really doesn't matter. :)

[hharris]

That really is one of the great things about costuming - the making of random stuff!

[koshka_the_cat]

It's beautiful!

[atherleisure]

Thank you.

[marianme]

So lacy and fine. <3

[atherleisure]

Thank you.