A Quick Update
I spent much of today patterning, cutting, tweaking, and finishing the first doublet sleeve. Hopefully I'll get the other one done tomorrow. I've got a picture of the final shape of the sleeve, but I'm too tired to upload it just now. As for materials, the striped white material I had planned to use turned out to be just a tiny scrap, so I had to switch gears. My fallback idea was to make sleeves out of the kirtle material, but I forgot that I'd used all of it up in the kirtle itself. I rooted around some more and found a medium weight green cotton (I assume) that is nearly identical to the rust fabric of the kirtle, and a close match to the color of the green wool guards. I used some leftover muslin bits as lining. I drafted the pattern with a gathered shoulder for maximum mobility. The original plan was for a tapered sleeve with a hook and eye closure at the wrist. As it turned out, the original pattern was about 6 inches too long (better too long than too short, I suppose), and the point where I cut it off was much wider than I had originally planned. Rather than take apart the seam and re-cut the taper, I gathered the end of the sleeve into a cuff and put a button on it. In hindsight, I'm glad I decided to complete the first sleeve before starting on the second. I kept the pieces that I cut out of the first sleeve (the trimmed sleeve end as well as a section cut out of the bottom curve of the sleevehead) and used them to make the same alterations to the second sleeve.
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