Wednesday June 22

Today we made up the toiles for our breeches and waistcoat, these will be used for the fittings (found out today mine is 24 hours earlier than expected, ie tomorrow, yikes!) and then all the changes put onto the patterns before we cut out the actual fabrics.  Toiles are quite quick to make up but alot of markings on the waistcoat had to be tacked in, very slow...  They look like this:

Spent the afternoon drafting up the pattern for the jacket, so that can be cut out and made up tomorrow ready for the fitting.  Jacket pattern a bit of a challenge (maths involved) but sorted it out and added some design changes to make it work for Naval uniform.  Also found some great lace and bullion on the internet to make up my epaulettes.  See below the materials that next week I will begin to transform into costume.