Near Completion
Yesterday, I made the two lacing strips for the armscyes. I ended up making them out of a heavy white linen that I don't really remember getting. The holes are spaced one inch apart. This morning I attached them. With nothing else left to do, I was finally forced to start on the buttonholes. I don't think it was the actual binding that I was dreading, but the irreversible cutting of the buttonholes. I eyeballed the spacing with pins, marked them with chalk, and then took the old 3/4" chisel to them. They didn't really take that long to bind, and then I put the buttons on. The only other major alteration that happened at this point was changing the shape of the neck a little. I couldn't really get it exactly right until this point, because I didn't know how the top of the doublet would lie once everything was buttoned up. As it turned out, I got out of binding one of the buttonholes because it got cut off. Once I get the collar done, it'll all be finished.
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