Make Do and Mend

Viking style.

In February,  after doing a major clean out and reorganizing of the garb closet (a story for a different post), we discovered that at some point one of Adam's tunics lost a huge portion of one shoulder. 

We have no idea when/ where/ how this happened, because he has no memory of catching it on something.  But there was no way to fix it,  because a lot of the fabric is just gone.  

He really liked the trim on it so I wanted to see if there was a way to make the best out of weird situation. 

I started by taking the measurements of the original to try to match a new tunic to it as closely as possible.  I have a pretty standard format for cutting his tunics that involves almost zero waste out of 2.5 yards of 55-60" fabric,  but the green one had been cut years ago and nothing was the usual size.  

New tunic 

The next step was to remove the trim plus green fabric and attach.  The collar/yoke proved to be the trickiest part. 

A little top stitching was added for decoration and to hold down the side seams and the transformation was complete.