mlsdesigns | Apr. 27th, 2012

So, when I made the blue bonnet last month, I was looking at the rest of the fabric, wondering what it wanted to be, when I realised, it needs to be a pierrot jacket, with a fluffy white muslin petticoat and big hat. So, this is where I've got to:

The petticoat is an old one, I need to take it off the waist band, re-pleat it and shorten it quite a bit, I'm going for the lovely almost ankle length you see a lot with these jackets.

I will be wearing it next weekend when

girliegirl32786 comes to stay. We're going to Kedleston for the day, and I imagine the weather will be just as bad as it is now! The perfect excuse to make something I've wanted for a long time, mitts!

They're made from the scraps of blue wool left over from the spencer I wore with the bonnet, the scraps were so small the mitts had to be pieced, but I forgot to get a photo. They're lined in white china silk, with white taffeta point linings. I stitched the short seams on the thumbs in the lining and wool, then turned in the seam allowances and put the lining inside the wool and did a running stitch around the openings. The main pieces were put together right sides facing, and I stitched around the thumb openings, clipped the seam allowance and turned them through. I pressed under the edges and did a running stitch at the wrist edge, and slip stitched the hand edge ( so the blue stitches didn't show on the white point). Then I attached the finished thumb to the finished thumb opening with herringbone stitch ( the same as the decorative lines on the back of the hand) I joined the mitts together with a herringbone stitch too, but pinned the seam to paper with a few mm gap to make a stretchy faggoted seam.