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Oh yeah, I've once again managed to tear a sleeve off a linen shift in my sleep, so I guess I'll be attempting to make another one from this random piece of white linen I have. What did I get it for originally? Is it going to be big enough? No idea, and probably. 😄 I can always get more but for sure I could do with another intact linen shift to use as a nightdress in the meantime. The old one can become under-shirts later once I've washed it.

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Sini Tuulia
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In pretty much any old garment there's going to be bits that are still good, and it used to be we'd make other things from those... But it sure is a lot more effort. It also always feels silly to wash a completely frayed to heck garment, but it's much nicer turning it into little fabric pieces if it's not absolutely saturated in human gunk.
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One of the worst parts of making a shift or chemise for me is knowing what kind of neck opening I want. Do I want it big and round, with a drawstring, should I put on lace, do I want a front neck slit so I don't have to worry if I can fit my head through even if I forget to take off my glasses... It's just a complete hassle and stressful every time, no matter what I pick. Making it is fine, choosing is horrible!
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Sini Tuulia
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I have these random measurements on this page of notes, so I'm just gonna cut that out, see if my head fits through. If it doesn't, a neck slit there is gonna be. No decisions, only reactions from your gal Sini today.
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I did make the neck opening too big and will need to put on lace with a ribbon or something probably, and was meant to do all of the sewing on the machine... But then I thought I'd quickly fell something down by hand while I catch up on my eldritch mystery podcasts... And somehow I've been sewing by hand for hours, and will need to sew for hours more. Unless I change my mind and do the long skirt section seams by machine, with all the finicky upper dress bits already done. Who can say yet?
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Finished the linen shift otherwise, mostly by hand, but the neck opening needs something to make it a little bit more practical. I have this tiny bit of narrow cotton lace that I could maybe persuade a bit of very small satin ribbon through. If I can locate some satin ribbon... This is the issue when you haphazardly make something out of what you just have laying around, without a plan. 😅
Edit: photo added, looks like it could work!

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A little photo of the neckline of a white linen nightdress, nicely finished by hand. There's a bit of narrow white cotton lace laid along it, and a very pale pink tiny satin ribbon also. Sini's pale hand for scale. It's a cute combination, looks like it could work.
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And it's done. A little bit of lace and ribbon remarkably makes any old bit of white garment look much more like some intention went into it. 😆
A close up photo of the curved neck opening of a nightdress, with a narrow white lace eased into its edge, and a pale pink ribbon threaded into the lace. It looks like someone made a garment and put some thought into it, much more than it did without. It's all very dainty and old fashioned and pretty.
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Lauma Pret 🕸️
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Have you by chance found my holy grail, that is, source of non-polyester satin robins?

P.S. I never figured out, how to get Guttermann's cotton thread in Latvia. I settled with Madeira's cotton which is more usable than Madeira's rayon. I gave my rayon threads away to second hand charity shop, because I gave up on dealing with them.

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Sini Tuulia
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@laumapret I know of some Etsy shops that sell silk ribbon but I don't ever remember about it at such a time table that I could be bothered to look them up again... It was some notions shop in the UK and they stopped delivering when there was that postal nonsense, for a bit? And also silk would probably disintegrate with the way I wash my things. 😅

Sometimes it's so hard to find a simple thing. I don't know if my favourite shop would ship them, but it's a huge hassle for some thread, international delivery...

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Yeah, honestly, for hardwashable underwear cute cotton ribbon would be better. But have I ever seen something remotely like cotton sattin ribbon in a shop around me? Noooup. But my brain goes very wrong about poliester ribbons in **my** historical underwear.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia @Lauma Pret 🕸️ sartor sells silk ribbon, but I think only in a wider size, and it's *delicate*, I wouldn't use it on underwear, unless I wanted to bother with removing it every time it gets washed (which I think is historically accurate, but also I'm not doing historically accurate laundry, OK?)
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@valhalla @laumapret I, also, cannot be bothered to wash laundry historically accurate. 😆 Ironing things is where I draw the line!
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@Lauma Pret 🕸️ @Sini Tuulia since my favourite cotton thread seems to be sold only in Italy, and I have friends who want to try handsewing and live elsewhere in Europe, I've just bought from an haberdashery website in Czechia a spool of Amann cotton thread, and right now it has passed my very basic “better than the flimsy stuff that Guetermann passes for cotton sewing thread”, but I haven't used it properly yet.
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@valhalla @laumapret The normal Gütermann cotton thread is trash, but the nice thick one that costs at least twice as much? Heaven. I have no idea why it isn't sold everywhere, it's great!
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Sini Tuulia
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@valhalla Gütermann Cotton 30, it's much thicker, very shiny, doesn't snap even if you want it to (kind of annoying to unpick if you get it really tangled) and very very durable, also doesn't want to tangle when sewing by hand. It's amazing and I refuse to sew with anything but that now, and there's only one shop in Finland that sells it. 😭
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