I made a red chintz bedgown that I didn’t like very much. I thrifted a curtain panel in a different chintz pattern that toned with it. I used both fabrics as the base of a winter-weather 1770s chintz ensemble and I think that the ensemble is pretty neat!
1750s , 1760s , 18th century , Accessories , Blog , Cloaks and Mantelets , fabrics , garment construction , pattern review , ruffleruffleruffle
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A Black Lace Mantelet
A black lace mantelet is, foolish, fragile and one of the most pointless accessories in the history of western fashion. Of course I wanted to make one!
18th century , fabrics , Halloween , Playing Dress Up , wig
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A Witchy Wench-y Halloween
When life gives you dinosaur bone printed sheets and orange Ikea duvet covers, you make a witchy, wench-y take on 18th Century Pastoral Fashion!
Blog , fabrics , garment construction , Regency , stays , total chaos , underpinnings
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The Regency Ribbon Stays of WHOOPS.
Exhibit A for what happens when one makes a new pair of regency short stays right when one is coming down with a flu and is taking lots of cold-and-flu medication. You might get what I got: a pair of regency RIBBON stays.
18th century , Accessories , Blog , Cloaks and Mantelets , fabrics , garment construction , pattern review , ruffleruffleruffle , tutorial
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A Blonde Silk Gauze Mantelet
One of my favorite 18th Century costume references is this portrait of Olive Craster by Sir Nathanial Dance-Tolland. I love the puffy blue stomacher bows. I love the enormous pearls worn high on her neck. I love her pet squirrel. But mostly I love the lace mantelet that she is wearing over the top of all of it! When I found this embroidered silk fabric I reckoned it was MEANT. Let’s see if i can make the blonde silk gauze mantelet from the portrait!
1750s , 18th century , fabrics , garment construction , pattern review , Wrapping Gown
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The Fitting and Proper Chintz Banyan
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it another wrapping gown? It’s the Fitting and Proper Chintz Banyan! Let’s talk about how to put it together.
18th century , American Girl doll , Cloaks and Mantelets , doll costumes , fabrics
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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.
20th Century , fabrics , garment construction , modern sewing , total chaos
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The Project that went Really Really Wrong
How often do you have a sewing project that goes really really wrong?
18th century , Accessories , fabrics , Playing Dress Up , underpinnings
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Three Pairs of 18th Century Pockets
In honor of the annual Spring Fertility festival, here three pairs of 18th Century Pockets! (All of them bright, colorful, vaguely egg-shaped, and perfectly designed for holding your Easter chocolates!)
1790s , fabrics , total chaos
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Fabric Shopping in the 1790s
My original plan for 2022 was to make a 1790s capsule wardrobe – one pattern and three gowns that would take me through any sort of event.
Let’s see how THAT worked out.