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  • Going Baroque: Progress Bit-by-Bit

    April 30, 2010

    I could say that this is going slowly and tediously, but each piece is exciting to me!  Last night I stitched on another piece of the satin bodice covering, and now have…

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  • Going Baroque – The Danger of Satin, and a Tale of One Sleeve

    April 29, 2010

    This 1660s bodice is coming together in bits and pieces, in no particular order, with no particular sense, yet is somehow coming out alright.  I’ve run out of bones, but that didn’t…

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  • Going Baroque: De-Bling-ification

    April 27, 2010

    That’s just TOO MUCH BLING! Yesterday I acquired my trim, 8 yards of stiff, shiny, blingy silver goodness, about 2″ wide…but unfortunately blisteringly, blindingly blingy. Too much bling – baroque though it…

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  • Going Baroque – The Guts of the Beast

    April 26, 2010

    So excited about this costume am I that I spent tonight sewing the lining (simple white muslin) and the interlining (canvas) together and beginning my boning channels, to make the structured base…

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  • Going Baroque : Patterning Extravaganza

    April 26, 2010

    Ah, the joyous process of draping and drafting.  There is nothing quite like developing a pattern from nothing, finding the shapes, getting the exact fit.  I don’t claim to be *good* at…

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  • Adventures in the Forgotten Century – American Duchess Goes Baroque

    April 24, 2010

    There comes a time in every girly costumer’s seamstressing career when she wants a pink polonaise, a huge, fluffy, crispy, pink taffeta 18th century polonaise.  She salivates over the mere idea of…

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  • 1940 Floral Summer Dress – Progress

    April 18, 2010

    As promised, progress photos on the 1940 dress, done up in brown floral cotton shirting, and using a vintage 1940 Simplicity pattern belonging to my grandmother. The wonderful thing about vintage patterns…

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  • Pattern for Smartness – 1940s Sewing Inspiration

    April 17, 2010

    I clicked through to this video from la Chatelaine Chocolat’s blog, so we have her to thank for the link.  I’m enthralled by this little video put out in 1948, but Simplicity. …

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  • Plans: Vintage Summer Dresses, 2010

    April 16, 2010

    As the massive project of James’ 18th c. suit draws to a close, I have much to think about of where I want to go next.  With the weather beginning to warm…

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  • The Little Business of Ribbon Cockades

    April 8, 2010

    I enjoy making these WAY too much.  So much, in fact, that I went to the fabric store and came home with, uh, 11 rolls of grosgrain ribbon.  Whoops!  I’m ever so…

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  • A Few 18th c. Style Fabrics You Should Know About…

    April 6, 2010

    I’ve been scouring all my favorite web-haunts for fabrics from which to make my summer dresses.  In the search, I’ve come across some really gorgeous batistes, lawns, and voiles that are just…

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  • How To Make 18th c. Cockades

    April 3, 2010

    by Lauren Reeser Cockades are so cool.  They add so much interest and texture to a hat, pinned to a jacket, even tied onto your shoes.  So here’s how to make them……

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  • Button, Button – Who’s Got the Button?

    April 2, 2010

    by Dana Reeser Or more correctly, who made the button? Lil’ Duchie never played “button button” so she didn’t get the reference, but this is Lil’ Duchie’s Lady Mother writing to you…

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