Sewing Post: Choli Pattern

Yeah. I know. This is a blog about words.
That said someone said they needed access to my research on making period(oid) Mughal Indian Cholis, and putting links here is the easiest way to publish it.

This research is old. Like I updated my name and title on it, but the original document said "Lady Meggie of Lochleven". I still make cholis this way. Note that the research on it is still not finished. I was going to work on the pattern for the 3rd choli "sometime over the winter", and then suddenly I was princess (so that was 2009), and I ran out of time. Someday I will get back to it.

Here is the research: paper: A Trio of Cholis

Here are the making up instructions for Choli #2

Enjoy.

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