Here is my pink 1860s summer dress for an American Girl doll – sewn from vintage fabrics and inspired by all the 18t60s fashion plates showing summer dresses worn with wide straw hats!
1790s , Cloaks and Mantelets , Playing Dress Up , wig
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Green, White and Cardinal Red: A 1790s New Year Ensemble
For the new year, I freshened up a 1790s round gown and sewed lots of new accessories to make a 1790s New Year Ensemble!
1790s , Accessories , christmas , Cloaks and Mantelets , ruffleruffleruffle
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Pacific Northwestern 1790s Style
Northern America is colder and wetter than Northern Chile in January. I needed Pacific Northwestern 1790s style!
christmas , toys
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A Stuffed Elephant for Christmas. Bah Humbug.
A friend has a new baby and she is charming and precocious and I am making her a stuffed elephant for Christmas. Bah Humbug.
19th Century , Halloween , jewellery , Regency
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Happy Halloween
No Halloween shall be complete without my favorite antique October accessory – here’s to Sofia and her laudanum. Happy Halloween!
Halloween , stays
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It’s October.
It’s October. ‘Tis the season for big hair, fx makeup and historical underpinnings…
American Girl doll , doll costumes , Regency , total chaos
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From the Archives: A Regency Ballgown for an American Girl Doll
This American Girl Doll regency ballgown, inspired by a lavender c.1815 color plate, was sewn as a distraction from reality during my final presentations in grad school.
1780s , Hat , millinery , total chaos , tutorial
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An 18th Century Brain Hat: Tutorial
Here’s a tutorial for an 18th Century Brain Hat – it’s a bergere, and it’s got pleated trim, and puffs of silk, and loops of ribbon all OVER the place.
knitting
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Alpaca and Angel Tears: In which I (reluctantly) learn to knit.
In which i buy a few skeins of alpaca wool, and and a real life angel teaches me to knit. Because i REFUSE to be the only crafter in the world who can’t seem to master the simple art of purl one.
1790s , shoes , tutorial
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1790s Painted Shoes Part 2
A pair of white Regency slippers and a bottle of Angelus Leather Paint – Here is my tutorial for 1790s painted shoes: part 2