You have provided me with the Word of God on mistcloaks! Awesomesauce. Saving that
right now.
Although I think I will have to modify that somewhat to get it to flow right, which in my mind is the most important bit. It does sound like starting with a heavier layer on the inside working toward a lighter layer on the outside would help give it the right sort of ... majestic? drape. I'm not sure I can accomplish that in 1.5 layers, though, not with 1" strips of fabric. Hmmm. (I love this kind of problem.) Well, that's why I got a yard of each weight to experiment with. And silk is great for getting a luxurious rich drape without lots and lots of weight. Actually, with silk I miiiight be able to get away with fewer layers. We will see. Tomorrow I will find my rotary cutter and get to work on that.
So... I'm confused about the difference between the "tassels" and the strips of fabric. Are they the same?
Heh, now that people might actually be
reading my blog, I have to get things done. (Woo motivation.)
I should be honest and also post the series of failures I've experienced while trying to carve the !!$@!#$ cloak clasps, starting with my unexpected discovery that standard white copy paper burns in the oven and going from there. (It's still cool enough to be worth sitting down and spending several hours carving little pieces of wax with teeny tiny tools. I've been watching Mythbusters while working on it, and it's rather terrifyingly inspirational. It's certainly motivated me to get off my behind and take advantage of my last term and cross-register for some metalworking classes, in any case.)
I have to say, though, for any cloak but this one (I'm going to be far too attached to it to stab it with *anything*), some of the allomantic symbols would make wonderful cloak pins - you know, this type.
http://www.wulflund.com/images_items/hand-forged-fantsy-cloak-pin_2.jpg (image picked at random from the internets). Incidentally, is there any significance to what look suspiciously like spikes in the allomancy symbols, or do they just look cool?
btw, firstRainbowRose: I suspect this is one of those projects that I will only ever want to do once. Kind of like the wings on my blog. Those took me at least 50 hours (including convincing all my friends that helping me paint them was what they wanted to be doing during finals week... I brought a box of cookies and declared it a party. I still can't believe that worked.) and you have no idea how much you'd have to pay me to make those again. Although with
sufficient incentive...