Creating the tunic
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Project duration
1 month, 1 week.
Costs spent
Linen fabric - 420 NOK.
Thin separating zippers - 255 NOK.
Fabric dye pods - 457,90 NOK.
Dark beige paracord - 59 NOK.
Gray PVC mat - 0 NOK - Excess from Amanda Ripley's duffel bag.
Extra strong sewing thread - 40 NOK.
Cotton twine - 1,86 NOK.
Promarker - 44,90 NOK.
Deer leather - Standard sorting - 38,57 NOK.
Total - 1317,23 NOK.
The double fabric layers of the shoulders also worked to my advantage
since I could sew the bottoms of the cord stitches right into the
bottom seams so they would absolutely stay in the right place.
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And just like a crazy bastard with a much too high attention to detail,
I decided to sketch down exactly in which position the thick cord
stitches were in.
Both shoulders now had the exact same cord seam patterns as the
original shoulders, as if anyone would ever tell the difference.
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Some of the cords didn't quite get the color I was going for since they
were partly made with synthetic fibers, so they were further colored
with a Promarker with the color Burnt Sienna that was a pretty good
match.
The shoulder pieces were sewn together at the bottom with a
temporary zigzag seam that would simply hold them in position while
sewing them to the rest of the tunic.
Linen has a great way of healing itself anyway after any stitches are
removed from it.
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A small blob of contact adhesive was added to the ends of each cord
to prevent them from fraying apart during the dying process.
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Now that I knew how many cord stitches to add, I further examined
the original stitches through the convenient photo mode of Horizon:
Forbidden West to see how tall and wonky to make them all.
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The temporary zigzag stitches could now be removed after they had
done their job perfectly.
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It was an absolute nightmare to buy the thin splittable dress zippers I
needed for this project when the store employees I asked them about
thought splittable meant the actual zipping feature so I wasted a long
trip to the store who supposedly had some...
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The inner surfaces of the tunic would now be completely seamless
because I left all that mess on the front side where it will be covered
up by a strip of leather anyway.
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