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Start Your Needles!
LAPL- Casey Collection I haven’t sewn anything in nearly a month, and it has been delicious. Really. No buttonholes, no hems, no seams. Nothing! I ripped a button off my winter coat and pocketed it,...
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Frivolous Friday: Just a Pretty Bonnet
Like Sew 18th Century, I’ve been enjoying preparing for the August 2nd event in Salem. I’ve not ventured too much into Regency bonnets, or into straw, but I did flirt with a 1794 bonnet. Now I’ve got...
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Woolen Woes
On Saturday, I got a very nice piece of wool from Mr C’s Strategic Fabric Reserve, just the color and weight I’d been looking for to make a Very Specific Spencer. The VSS is not a replica, but rather...
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Frivolous Friday: All of Everything
All of Everything: Todd Oldham at the RISD Museum of Art Some days were made for a bit of hooky. This week, it was Tuesday– though how much can you consider a museum visit hooky when it’s the business...
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Flipping a Lid
In a continuing effort to simultaneously destroy my hands and make all the bonnets, I set out recently to recreate a bonnet in the Met’s collection. Silk Bonnet, British, ca. 1815. Brooklyn Museum...
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This plate has stuck with me for years: those mailbox shapes, in velour! In 1807, velour was not what we …Continue reading →
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I no longer remember where in the wilds of the interwebs I found this charming servant, but find her I …Continue reading →
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