Design 01001
	First I must pick from Eowyn's Closet one of her many dresses.  I don't have a lot of money so I'm going to use what I have on hand.  Most of the fabric that I have was purchased for Reniassance gowns.  I don't have any velvets, so I may make the "refugee" dress.   12-21-04   (OTT Note:  This is the 3nd rebuild of this page.  Please forgive any broken links.  I have found out the hard way that you cannot use the tripod site builder and free edits.  By free edits I mean hand coding, but if you use the tripod site builder it will wipe out all your hard work)	.

The Refugee Dress
	This frock has been duplicated many times with woes stated on getting the correct colors and Linen weight. The blue/gray underdress has a unique texture and it has gold thread running through it. The jumper is a medium weight linen. My delima: Don't buy any more material. Use what I have. I pulled out a linen and a cotton that I had. Here are the before colors:	.

Dye
	Now I do like this color combination, very vibrant but I don't think that the people of Rohan would wear orange and fusica. So I went to the store and purchased the cheep Rit dye. I used 1 box of Sunshine Orange#43 and 2 boxes of Scarlet #5. Following standard instuctions here is the result.	.

The Pattern
	Next step: The Pattern!        4/21/05       What a frustrating week! I had such plans for making up the pattern for the underdress. I used Simplicity 9103 for the pattern and ended up modifing like crazy. I wanted to use a pattern so that everything would fit together, but since nothing worked or rather I changed way too much. I raised the neckline. The underdress has a higher neck. Then I changed the sleeves. I wanted the tight fitted sleeve but with the option to roll them up. I do believe that Eowyn had two underdresses for the movie. One with tight sleeves and one with wide sleeves that rolled up. Anyway I changed the seam line to run down the back of the arm and aline right under the wrist. I plan to have a loop and yarn closure to bring the sleeve in tight at the wrist.	.

Finding the right pattern.
	I made the front of the bodice and made a back piece and sewed the sleeve in....ACK..what a mess. In my hurry I didn't make a proper back. I picked out everything and started over. All this work an it's just the muslin!       4_22_05 Pulled out my 2 sewing books and read up on sleeves. I don't think anything in a book is going to help. My sleeve pattern resembles the older style in the 1500's. I'm looking at sites that have cotte and surcotte's on them. These patterns are more closely related to this outfit. I'm still trying to fit the dang sleeve in, but it looks like the armholes are too small and this underdress would look so stupid with puffed sleeves!!!       5_04_05 I gave up and walked away from the dress for a while. Worked on finishing my Ren fare bodice and finished that today (another dress diary). Went to JoAnn Fabrics and purchased another pattern. McCalls 4991 View D has a Blood Red Dress design (Yes I'm thinking Elven...doesn't everyone!) I'm thinking make something that's already planned. Don't reinvent the wheel...I see a problem already this pattern has princess seaming. I don't want seams...well only on the side. I'm not a professional or even intermediate seamstress..all this is way beyond my experience...I'm still going to give it a go. BACK TO ROHAN. I'm going to try another pattern Simplicity 8725 (discontinued). Modifications will mean a shorter dress length. The neck and sleeve looks good.	.

Making Progress...to see the completed dress please go to simbelmyne.us   I have the complete files there listed under Rohan.   4_18_07
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