Sew What Happens

I’ve seen this variations on this hat in fashion plates dating from the end of the 1790s through to about 1810-ish, but there was one particular image from 1809 I really loved: sculptural and clean, with a twist of blue ribbon across the crown and a feath…

I wore my new round gown with its green racing stripes to a regency picnic hosted by The Dreamers Post.

This gown started as a thrifted bedsheet, and was intended to be a wearable mockup for an 1807 bib-front gown.

I made a red chintz bedgown that I didn’t like very much.

Here in the rainforests of the 49th Parallel, we are feeling febrile and summerish.

I had used my gorgeous grey boiled wool to make an 18th Century short cloak (you can read about that short cloak HERE) but the short cloak did not have a hood.

After my knitting needle hatpin adventure at the Hemwick Society picnic last spring, I reckoned I needed to level up my accessory game and make some proper historical hat pins.

I am on a mission to make all of the Scroop Mantle patterns.

The weather this week is absolutely atrocious.

While I have a long Cardinal Cloak in my costuming closet for 18th Century winter-wear, the length and the weight of it can be a bit cumbersome.