I didn't like how the shoulders of the tunic seemed to be attached to the tabard and wanted to make my own custom hidden shoulder straps to
attach them to instead to make the tabard and tunic as separate pieces.
Creating the tunic
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And with all the various lines in various colors all drawn up, the front
of the tunic pattern was completed.
Eventually all the patterns were cut apart into this pile of shapes.
In case anyone wants to ask me for these patterns, I'm sorry to say
that they were stolen by a rampant Snapmaw.
The second custom parts were these two shoulder straps that would
be hidden underneath the tabard so no one could say they are not
there or not not there.
Although I didn't make the pattern I used to make the tabard this
way, its shape was still drawn onto the tunic pattern just as a guide to
see where to add all the various lines for the tunic.
I had already made Aloy's pants patterns with a new method of simply
padding up the appropriate shape with bubble wrap before further
wrapping it up with plastic film and packing tape, so made the tunic
patterns the same way since this method worked great.
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The back of the tunic pattern was also completed, by the way.
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I originally bought a dark linen fabric for the shoulders, but decided
on using the same linen fabric as the rest to have it all match since I
had just enough left for the shoulders anyway.
The four pieces of linen were numbered so I wouldn't mess it all up
during the dying process...
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Two pods of Espresso Brown fabric dye were used to color the very
darkest parts of the tunic.
After slightly diluting the brown dye and adding a bit of yellow dye to
it, the fabric for the torso of the tunic was dipped into it.
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The result was four different colored batches of linen, all from the
same diluted fabric dye.
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That's the great part about linen that its fibers are woven the same in
both directions.
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That's the great part about linen that its fibers are woven the same in
both directions.
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That's the great part about linen that its fibers are woven the same in
both directions.
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The positions of the ribbons were marked onto the shoulder straps
with tailor's chalk to show exactly in which wonky position to sew
them onto the edges of the shoulder straps.
I bought way to many ribbons just to use whichever one looked the
closest to the original shoulder ribbons and found that this paracord
looked just right after removing its outer sleeve from the inner cord.
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That's the great part about linen that its fibers are woven the same in
both directions.