a teeny test eyelet

Progress: made 3 pairs of summer pants for The Girl, altered the pattern for L's kirtle and cut it out.

I decided there is no way around hand-sewing the eyelets for L's dress(es).  I briefly toyed with the idea of using some kind of ribbon loops for lacing, but who am I kidding?  It needs real eyelets.  Plus I ought to brush up on hand-sewn buttonholes for HB's doublet.

Now, I haven't hand-sewn an eyelet since about 2002 (I really had to think about this one).  I spent hours doing them and then the garment ended up not fitting at all, so I scrapped the whole thing and swore I'd never waste my time like that again.

That was a long time ago.  I feel better now.

Anyway, I grabbed a scrap yesterday and tried to see if I still remember how to do it.  I guess the answer is sort of?

( front and back )

It's oval, not round, but it would totally work and I think I could work the next ones rounder.  I might make the real ones over a metal ring, but I'm not sure.  I know I used rings last time, but I don't know how common that is/was and what difference it makes.  I do know that I'd use button rings (like for making thread buttons) instead of jump rings like I used last time, because the split in the jump rings made them keep poking out from under the stitches.

Edit:   I realize now that I made my buttonhole stitch go the other way round from what most people seem to do, so that the 'bar' part edges the opening.  Since that's how buttonholes are done, I just assumed, but now I wonder, who do people reverse that on eyelets?