Sissi Wedding dress

Princess Capote Hood Part 1

So I must make a confession, my early knitting projects were.. interesting. The sweet knitted opera hood that took nearly 20 hours to complete bit the dust in a long trail of unravelled horror. I actually saw the cute little hood above in Heidi Marsh's book on period headwear. It seemed pretty, feminine, and for certain the perfect item to keep my ears from doing their best smurf impression. 

For material, I chose to reproduce an original hood in a private collection that was just begging to be made. This hood was made of velvet, with a border of closely placed white pearls with pearls placed in a grid pattern on top. In essence, sheer perfection. Thanksfully Jo-Ann fabrics stocks a nice cotton velveteen that was marked down to a mere $10 a yard. The small pearls came from my sister, and the lining was a re purposed flannel sheet. All in all the project cost a mere $10.

So at 2:00am in the morning, the Princess Capote hood started to take shape. The velvet was cut in a 31" square like the pattern called. After doing this, one corner is cut off. This part was kinda guess work but since the corner was going to be sewn on the 90 degree angle side to the straight edge on the main piece, the triagnle has to be the right size to fit in. I measure half of the long side on the main piece. This has to be the same as one of the equal sides on the corner.  What you should have left should look something like the picture above. From this step I chose to add the beads and casing for the drawstring to the pieces before sewing together. But for that night, this was enough. So off to bed and to start plotting the rest of the project

Click here for Part 2
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