Dearest Readers, Once again, I am sorry for the lack of activity on this blog. The past few months were quite busy, as I was finishing up the school year. But I hope that at least over the summer I can keep up a steady pace of posts. But don’t get your hopes up, for my promises may be worth nothing at this point. 😬 Anyway, at the moment I can’t think of any projects that I finished since February, though I’m sure that there are some. But plenty of new projects(and some changes) have come to fruition. First of all, my friend Luiza and I decided to wait and make the Schuyler Sister’s gowns in a couple of years. This is because we both have bigger projects that we would like done sooner. Eventually, however, the gowns will happen. But that doesn’t mean that all work on them as stopped. I will continue to periodically work on Luiza’s stays, but other projects will come first. However we decided that instead of those gowns, we would make regency ones using the 1790’s round gown instructi
Dear reader, h i again! I will spare you a lot of boredom regarding a lot of what I have been doing lately, with a TON of half finished sewing projects with not a lot of time to work on them, but I have been busy(ish) this last month! I completed two projects that I have been wanting to make for a long time now. An edwardian petticoat, and a definitely-not-historically-accurate medieval dress. I'll go more into depth about them in a bit. But I just wanted to let you know that a trip to a historical location is happening very soon. I'm not going to tell you where yet, though, because I want it to be a surprise! But know that I'm very excited about it! Anyways, back to the projects. The first one is the medieval dress, which was a rushed project that I made in a week, in preparation for a New Year's event. It is made of a brown cotton flannel, completely machine sewn apart for the sleeve, neckline, and skirt hem. I used a guide that I found onlin