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Shortgown Gets In On the Action 20 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
The lovely thing about a shortgown? After a night in a tent with the world's crabbiest baby, during which you sleep maybe 4 out of the 8 hours you're trying to, you can just throw it on. And that's ...
Assembling a Shortgown: The Great Authenticity Decision Plays Out 7 Jul 2013 | 07:51 am
Assembling a shortgown is not hard. It's pretty much three steps. First, you set in the pleats on the back to fit it. Pleats pinned in the back of the lining, before stitching Detail--pinned pleat...
Simple Shortgown: The Whys and Whats 26 Jun 2013 | 06:17 am
It's funny--I've seen it discussed many times on many costuming and living history blogs what the difference between a costumer and a reenactor is. There are a lot of really insightful answers, often...
DIY High Chair Placemat 21 Jun 2013 | 02:38 am
It's no secret that I like old-fashioned furniture. Lucite will never have a place in this house. (Nothing against Lucite, it just ain't my thang.) And while I can appreciate the appeal of easy-to-...
Sky Blue Gown, Complete! 31 May 2013 | 08:55 pm
It is finished. The sky blue "quarter back" gown I started, oh, half a year ago or more. It's done. Kind of. Not really. But it's wearable, and I wore it last weekend. As usual I did a crap job ...
Baby Dress from Reworked Petticoat 27 Apr 2013 | 07:58 am
Eleanor in block print. That's all I've got for you at the moment: But give me two minutes without a teething baby, and a revision nagging me, and all that jazz, and I'll show you how I turned a han...
What I'm Sewing Now: March Edition 18 Mar 2013 | 12:26 am
1) Still working on the Sky Blue Gown--it's mostly handsewn in little bursts while watching random documentaries on Netflix with the Husband. Which is my excuse for being in-cred-ib-ly slow on this p...
Wearing the Paprika Dress 12 Mar 2013 | 04:50 am
Just a quick post to show the 1930s dress in action! I got to wear the spicy-colored dress shortly after finishing it to a friend's 1930s themed birthday party (1930s for her 30th--brilliant idea!) ...
Sky Blue 1770s Gown: The Bodice 5 Feb 2013 | 12:16 am
I finished making up the bodice of my new 18th century gown, and I feel I must gush a bit. Not over anything I did particularly well, but over the Incredibly Wonderful Slipstitch found on the stitche...
I Have Toilet Phones 2 Feb 2013 | 12:01 am
So, I have toilet phones. We live in a house built in the 1870s, renovated and expanded in the 1890s, and installed with toilet phones c1985. Our lovely house: A less than lovely toilet phone: (Ye...
