Who Wore It Better? Dagged Hood Edition

[@sarar4901]

My favorite thing about historical recreations is how a garment that looks so alien and weird in period art just comes to life when you see the same thing on a body. Oh! It was cute all along!

[@OpusElenae]

Realism was… not a priority for most medieval scribes lol

[@sarar4901]

@@OpusElenae and neither was fashion? 🤣

[@rachelboersma-plug9482]

This is fantastic. I especially love your attempts to recreate poses - how detailed those little medieval drawings are, when you look at them closely.

[@OpusElenae]

They’re so tiny!

[@HouseHooligan]

The pattern! The music! The _poses_! Also, those reference images where the dagging runs down the liripipe are delightfully dragon tail-y in vibe…and I do not need one, I do not. 🤣

[@suzannecooke2055]

Oh fudge - just when I’m nearly finished with the original hood (plus embroidery) you add an iteration that I SO WANT. I barely have a use for one hood, can I justify two! Do they go with flannel shirts? Will I need some sort of half-kirtle I can wear in a wheelchair? I noticed in the pictures that most of the dagged hoods have a band of embroidery above the dagges. Do you suppose that the dagged edge was made separately and the join disguised with embroidery? Your photos posing against the pictures are so sweet, obviously YOU win the dagged hood fashion competition!

[@OpusElenae]

I don’t think they were separate, I think it was just a style that was popular as the time; you see it with smooth-hemmed hoods too. And yes, they’re terribly practical; I wear one in the wintertime modernly.

[@canucknancy4257]

Those are wonderfully whimsical. I definitely think that you wear it better.

[@juliemeanor6531]

Beautiful, try trimming seam allowance with pinking shears, much less clipping needed.

[@OpusElenae]

I have tried that but it leaves so little allowance that I have had Linen just… disintegrate at the seams.

[@ladyjusticesusan]

Your reveal was the most excellent reveal ever!!!!!!

[@OpusElenae]

Thank you!

[@linr8260]

Oof I'm in awe of your perseverance. The results are so worth it though. So crisp and cool-looking (and tying up your hood with the pipe is a genius move???) Also I just love the sound of "dagging expansion"

[@kida4star]

Definitely you! This was so much fun!

[@breeinatree4811]

I'm in awe of your patience. It would take me forever to make that.

[@ShannonLambert]

The Reveal on this is *chef's kiss* perfect. Thanks for the entertaining look at the reference materials!

[@annapepple477]

It’s the Ye Olde Hood Purse for me 🤣🤣🤣 I love this hood so much. The days are intimidatingly fiddly for me.

[@christinaguzzi747]

I am SO EXCITED for the sew along!!! The discord group has already been suuuuuper helpful with helping me find 100% wool.

[@OpusElenae]

Yesssssss we have the inside scoops

[@christinaguzzi747]

@@OpusElenae and your responses to our discord chat with examples of the unlined dags were great! A KZbinr who is actually active in their discord -gasp-!!

[@m.maclellan7147]

So interesting to see you do this, then recreate the ancient drawings !

[@ladybugdancer97]

I love this. I'm impressed you did the dags on the machine. I don't have the patience for that and would have hand sewn it. I love the color contrast between the outer and lining fabrics.

[@OpusElenae]

I wanted to see if I could do it. Conclusion: possible but fiddly. Absolutely would not for the more complicated ones than this.

[@emilyrobinson6080]

I only recently found your channel after seeing the shuttle carved for you over at Stockman Originals and i feel like i found a kindred spirit! You do so much of what I do and go the extra mile to record and share it with others. I love making clothes like this and this particular hood has me rummaging through my fabric supply to see what i have that could work for one of my own. Bravo!

[@Balloonoid]

Yay! New hood video

[@kieraoona]

Who knew hoods could be made into a makeshift bag! This was fantastic! so pretty!

[@FlybyStardancer]

The hood is cute! And I love the poses at the end.

[@RavenAttwoode]

Love the recreation of all the different pictures at the end 😁

[@moonbasket]

Pose. And pose. And pose. And pose. 😂 I loved the different pose recreations for the reveal.

[@OpusElenae]

Thank you! I had no idea what to do for the reveal so I winged it

[@YumYumTinkerbell]

I liked the poses at the end, informative!

[@anaisabelsantos4661]

Allways a pleasure to see you sew.

[@OpusElenae]

I’m so glad to keep you company!

[@kents.2866]

That tea sounds great for a D&D game. Awesome job on the dagging patterns.

[@goohber1]

wow, that's a long lyripiped tail on hood, but awesome. I ordered a similar hood from an Etsy seller but it is gray on half side & black on other half side, but a much shorted pointed tail ( not lyripiped ), pointed taill is more of a short gugel ( German ) style medieval hood

[@lifewithlolo9746]

Another beautiful creation! 🥰

[@bleachedink]

Great hood! Really liking the explanations, would love to give this a go. Also, its nice to hear a bit of Welsh every now and again in your vids, was not expecting it on the first video of yours I watched! Always nice to hear the home tongue, Diolch a chymerwch ofal.

[@OpusElenae]

Thank you! I am trying my best not to butcher the language while I’m learning, so it’s nice to hear that it makes you smile.

[@bleachedink]

@@OpusElenae not butchering at all! We all start somewhere!

[@KathleenStidham]

❤❤❤ SO excited about the information dagging. And thank you for a great video to end my day with.

[@StitchingUpChaos]

This was lovely! My ridiculous brain is now trying to make me add a dagged hood to the pile of sewing I need to finish before our event in two weeks lol. Must. Resist. The Nonsense. Hood. I love ridiculous lirepipes to a self-sabotaging degree....

[@OpusElenae]

I really really want it to be cold enough to wear in two weeks. I almost died filming the reveal, and that was inside!

[@StitchingUpChaos]

@@OpusElenae lol we've got obnoxious spring weather here right now - one day im in a tank top dying of heat and the next its thermals and a jersey. Hoping itll be cold for the event or the layered wools of my garb will straight-up destroy me :/

[@nanettebromley8843]

That hood looks fabulous. ooooh excellent. Pretty extras. Going to look at my hood pattern and see how easy it would be to take out the seam allowance apart from the gore. Should be pretty easy. Thinking felted wool would be easiest for me then add embellishments to the dags 🙃

[@OpusElenae]

For tracing purposes? You’ll still need a seam allowance for sewing all the pieces together. And if you get the dagging expansion, then cutting on the “sewing” line will work perfectly for felted wool.

[@nanettebromley8843]

Yep for tracing purposes. Prefer to add own seam allowance these days after working with made to measurements patterns and the many adjustments I have to do of historical ones. Makes life a smidge easier for me. Love the hood pattern. The instructions are very clear. Thank you for taking the time to do this and the up coming extention.

[@Rozewolf]

A beautiful hood. The dags are great, and I so don't envy all the clipping needed!

[@OpusElenae]

I’m going to make the next one from fulled wool so I can just cut them!

[@Rozewolf]

@@OpusElenae I don't blame you!

[@StitchAndNine]

This is delightful and reminds me how much I want to make a hood! Also, I didn’t think I wanted to do a whole medieval outfit, but the 5th(?) image you posed against is calling to me. Could I ask for more info on that reference, or is that a KoFi benefit? (Curse my current lack of income!)

[@margaretkaraba8161]

I'm drinking my standard favorite Genmaicha and in the middle of reading the second box set of Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak series. It's not bad. Not bad at all reading a well-written series of an Alaskan Native American female PI. I'm about 15 books in of 23.

[@OpusElenae]

Oh how interesting! I’ve been on a sci-fi binge myself; I’m re-reading Gideon and Harrow the Ninth to lead into the new release in the series.

[@cynthiadugan858]

Gorgeous! I love hoods

[@ianflynn3262]

Awesome! I wonder if you could wear it sideways, like an early chaperon?

[@OpusElenae]

Oh absolutely! I just ran out of time to style it that way in the reveal

[@lizzyrbits1283]

OH! A PURPOSE FOR THE LYRPIPE?! The rest of the video is great but that last bit struck me!!!

[@OpusElenae]

Liripipe: unexpectedly practical! (I have also wrapped it around my neck to make sure drafts don’t creep into my hood)

[@stevezytveld6585]

Huzzah for a new pattern from you, well done. It looks fabulous. Thank you, I'm in need of a distraction today - the commission into the Trucker Occupation of Ottawa started yesterday. And I've dipped into the comment section where I'm being called a puppet of the government and worse for pointing out the spike in hate crimes and assaults. Our Occupiers share more in common with your Jan 6th wannabe crowd than is entirely comfortable. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

[@OpusElenae]

Wow yikes

[@stevezytveld6585]

@@OpusElenae Yeah. What the heck we are suppose to do with the glut of home-grown extremists? Any time you point out the harm they've done you're labeled a shill for the government and told that the assaults never happened. Absolutely maddening...

[@WoofyMcDoodle]

I am going to follow this video for my own hood. You are so talented in sewing. Would it work to make the hood out of one piece or do I need to sew in gores to the sides or front for it to drape correctly or could I just make the hood bigger at the bottom? It would be easier for me to do without the gores, but if they needed I will do it with them.

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Awesome! I can't imagine how long it took to clip all those curves O.O or maybe I will, because I'm definitely doing this pattern 🙃 love it!

[@OpusElenae]

It took about an hour?

[@dwdillydally]

Dang, how'd you get inside my head? Today, I've been binging hood and coif tutorials.

[@OpusElenae]

Join the sew-along! ONE OF US ONE OF US

[@cherylstraub5970]

would the hood be properly bag lined or flat lined in period?

[@OpusElenae]

Good question! The verrrry few examples of lined garments in the 14th century we have are flatlined, but none of the extant hoods have linings at all, but rather facings along the buttonhole side, if they have buttons. So probably not lined at all. I went with bag-lining for my pattern because it’s the technique most modern sewists are familiar with

[@cherylstraub5970]

@@OpusElenae thank you for the explanation. I suppose that the coif would keep the hood clean from hair oil and the rest of the garments worn would keep the hood relatively clean also. I have heard that the button up hoods are exclusively for women. Do you know if this is true?

[@andreaeray]

@@cherylstraub5970 I should also like to know!

[@coreygilles847]

Ah yes…a new project to add to my list…

[@OpusElenae]

One of us one of us

[@NomtheGnome]

I like dags. Do you like dags? (Dags are always so neat.)

[@OpusElenae]

Periwinkle blue IS my favorite color….

[@autumn7143]

You definitely wear it better.

[@OpusElenae]

Awww thank you! 👑

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

Looking great! Congratulations (Drinking water)

[@OpusElenae]

Thank you!

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

@@OpusElenae you are welcome