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Blue Silk Mantelet for an American Girl Doll

This 18th Century blue silk mantelet, sewn for my American Girl Felicity doll, is a special piece of clothing – it is made of memories.

This is an important ribbon embroidery announcement! My golden wheat on wheat embroidery project has been found!

Here’s a well-dressed woman in her 18th Century bedgown, hanging out at the top of a mangrove tree. As you do.

When I was gifted a length of striped linen from Burnley and Trowbridge, I used their new bedgown pattern to make an 18th Century linen bedgown!

This Edwardian doll hat is very large. It is decorated with a great number of feathers, and it has a big bow right at the front.

How often do you have a sewing project that goes really really wrong?

A circular reticule for an American Girl doll turned into a full size reticule covered in silk ribbon embroidered fuchsias!

In which I take my 1790s printed cotton round gown, and this time, I finally do it right! Good things happen.

In honor of the spring festival: three pairs of 18th Century Pockets! (bright, colorful, vaguely egg-shaped, and made for holding chocolates)

In which I sew a 1790s printed cotton round gown, and make some really REALLY dumb technical decisions.