I wish I still had it. It was a leine (long) shirt. It was a great project! This was about 30 years ago and I've totally lost track of the Old Boyfriend for whom it was made (we both got married to different people.)

It took me about 6 months to spin all the linen, and I was spinning a LOT. I ended up having to buy some flax, as my crop only produced about 2/3 of what I needed and I didn't want to wait for a whole year to get the rest. I hackeled it all together (that's like combing or carding for wool - arranging the fibers for spinning). The weaving went pretty fast - a couple of months. It was plain weave, 25 inches wide or so and about 20 yards long. If I remember right, it was about 24 epi or so - fairly coarse. I used a "dummy" warp so that I didn't loose any of the handspun. I can tailor a shift or leine in a week by hand. So maybe 9 months altogether plus another four or five months to grow the flax and get it retted (I used wet or bog retting, which is a LOT faster).

I did a lot of crazy things back in the re-enactment days LOL.