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Christmas for Your Old-Fashioned Girls
So many have already taken advantage of our new digital-download doll pattern! It’s very exciting to see pictures posted on social media of the various unique little cloth girls everyone is making;...
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Mr Sullivan, Lilly, and Me: A 19th Century Fan-Girl Moment
Lilly Martin Spencer Selfie about 1848 One of my all-time favorite genre artists of the mid-19th century is Lilly Martin Spencer, the England-born daughter of French immigrants to Marietta, Ohio. Lilly...
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A New Sunbonnet in the Compendium!
During workshops in Olathe, Kansas this February, I was pleased to be allowed to study an original slatted sunbonnet in the Mahaffie Stage Stop & Historic Farm collection… and then even more...
View ArticleChoosing Your Maker
Some questions from newer folk lately have sparked my own ruminations, and I thought it was about time to do a Part The Second to an older post about Why Things Cost Money. Hiring sewing work done is a...
View ArticleEmbroidery Stitch Tutorials
Sometimes, a video tutorial really helps! Mary Corbett’s Needle N’ Thread has just such tutorials, for free… Of course, not every tutorial presented is appropriate for mid-century use. Take a look at...
View ArticleMahaffie Sunbonnet Sewing Review
Only a few weeks after we debuted the new free sunbonnet pattern, made possible by the lovely folks at Mahaffie Stage Stop and Historic Farm, one of our lovely Sewing Academy readers and long-time...
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Corsets & Cravats 2018: Don’t Miss This!
Image courtesy of Corsets & Cravats I’m sitting down today with Dannielle Perry, one of the masterminds behind Corsets & Cravats, a new regional conference with some great national-level...
View ArticleCorsetry Toolkits!
I’m working on finishing up a full (and largely positive) review of the new RedThreaded 1860s corset, but while I’m finishing up, I wanted to share some tool resources that can help you dive into...
View ArticleTesting: RedThreaded’s 1860s Gored Corset Pattern
Redthreaded has been making quality historical corsets for quite some time, but their home-sewing patterns are a newer addition to their lines. It’s rare I use a commercial pattern, but it is time to...
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Documentation, Citation, Information: Knowing What You Know!
The Pioneer’s Home on the Western Frontier (1867, published by Currier & Ives; Frances Flora Bond Palmer) Living history is a different sort of hobby. Whenever we claim an aspect of ‘educating the...
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