mornyavie:vincentbriggs:sufferingink:vincentbriggs:Finally got some pictures of my 1730′s suit! I ha

mornyavie:vincentbriggs:sufferingink:vincentbriggs:Finally got some pictures of my 1730′s suit! I had to move so much furniture to make enough space.holy shit??? holy shit???? how long did this take you? this is so cool???Thank you! I keep time sheets for most of my projects, so I can actually answer that fairly accurately!Coat: 100:33 (mostly hand sewn, with a few select bits done by machine. There are 79 buttonholes and 47 buttons and they took up nearly half that time.)Breeches: 34:53 (Also mostly by hand, with a few machine seams.)Waistcoat: 61 hours exactly. (Entirely by hand)Shirt: 37 hours initially, but later I re-did the cuffs and added new ruffles with tiny little rolled hems, which would bump that up to at least 45. Neck stock: Didn’t keep a time sheet for this or write a blog post, oops, but it’s a pretty simple little thing that was maybe about 2 hours. Also partly by machine and partly by hand. I’ll keep better track next time I make one.Queue bag: 3 hours. It’s all by hand, but very small and simple.Shoe alteration: Ehh, in total about 5 hours maybe? Spread out over a few days because glue had to dry.Grand total: Approximately 244 hours for the entire suit!A lot of those hours were spent hand sewing while listening to and partially watching various videos and shows, which I think slows me down a bit but it’s a more pleasant way to spend the time than just sewing in silence. I also did the shirt first - back before I learned how to use a thimble, so I’d be considerably faster now.Next year I’m going to do a 1720′s one that’ll be all hand sewn and have a lot of shiny metallic buttonholes, and it’ll take even more time!Why are there so many more buttonholes than buttons?Because of the back vent.Everywhere else on the coat has 1 button per buttonhole, even though most of them are just decorative.  -- source link

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