It's a schaube! It's a müzl! It's a schaublein?
Just back from a wonderful weekend of SCAdian adventures, this time a record breaking Tir Righ February Investiture. Yesterday morning I had some time to talk garb with someone I hold in high esteem. Now I have plans, and a road map to get to the next section. She reached out with an incredible short video of a gentleman making a couple of folds, a couple cuts, and boom! There's a cape/gollar. Really cute. We had a short chat about the garment, and she said that in Marion McNealy and Katherine Barich's's book "Drei Schnitterbücher", there is a pattern for a short shaube/ long müzl/gollar type garment. It is really a "schaublein", or little schaube. I pulled out the book and wanted to take my day off to give it a try. First, let's make the muslin pretty with some ironing: Then I did some math. I'm hoping to use this as a learning experience for when I want to make historical patterns work in a future project: First piece wa