I have a mountain of ironing to do and none interest to do so. Would you, for morale reasons, look at this set of Edwardian underwear I made a little while ago? Now with cats!
Here is the pictorial evidence of me pointing at the different crafted wood details on a pretty old building. And edit, another photo because my jacket I made is cute.
"Gosh that's a lot of snow for April", you may think, and indeed it is!
Currently eyeing one of the many sheets I never use but that I've washed due to The Wormening. I do not exactly need another calf length 18th century petticoat to wear at home... But I also don't need that sheet, and the lovely black fabric would see a lot more use as a petticoat than as a straight sheet 🤔 It wouldn't be THAT much effort to cut it into two and pleat it up on waist ties, and then I wouldn't have to try to fit the sheet into my bed linens dresser that is both too large and not large enough
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princesspetticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
OK, I still need to make a plan about a collar and some facings. But all the big bits are done.
Here are four piles:
Two continuous meters of left over fabric that I might get a very practical pair of trousers from if I'm careful. (Only 3 meters used for this garment if anyone's keeping score.)
A pile of small probably useless scraps.
A pile of larger pieces that I will cut the aforementioned collar and facings from.
My cut out pieces.
"So Sini, talk a little bit about your look today?"
"Well, I was really going for the vibe of 'Early 19th century poet imprisoned for their radical beliefs and a touch of homosexuality if we're honest, but he's the scion of a wealthy family so we just put him in an asylum instead' but then I was really having trouble making a neat bow today"
I put on a clean shirt, looked in the mirror and chuckled at myself. #HistoryBounding indeed.
Late night internet surfing landed me into one if those a bit historicaly looking clothing shops. Gorgeous red wool cloak. Priced almost realistically for wool.
Do I feel ready, tho? to be the only person in my small town wearing such an eye-catching outerwear? Damn, even in the capital where I go for work meetings and dentist appointments, I don't see red cloaks...
Attempting to motivate myself to properly clean the kitchen by Donning The Attire. Which is this nice linen apron I made a while back.
I feel like a nice apron definitely gives some mental bonuses to touching any kind of icky thing, despite being roughly as much trouble to launder as any other piece of clothing. 😂
My mother's washing machine is breaking down, and she lives close enough that I'm washing all of her laundry.
Now, I like being able to fill more loads and wash things more often, rather than have them accumulate until the laundry basket is overflowing, so I'm not encouraging her to buy a new machine (an attempt at repairing hers has already been done, and failed).
My real question is: should I do the proper #victorian thing and embroider my husband's initials on all of our household items? should I do a radical feminist thing and embroider my own initials¹? And what should I do with the bedsheet that already has my great-grandfather initials on it?
¹ or rather design. which has the advantage of having a form that is extremely easy and quick to embroider, and I already use on my conference t-shirts that are identical to @diegor 's ones :D
But Sini, what do you wear when it's hot enough that you forgo your general policy of not being sassy on the internet?
A linen shift! In case you didn't know what that is, it's one of the most enduring garments ever, a simple long shirt built out of rectangles and triangles, extremely frugal in fabric use. When hand sewn, nearly indestructible.
Also my linen bedgown, another 18th century fabric use efficient garment, when a desire to be slightly less boobalicious strikes.
Gaze upon me finally documenting my works! A brief five part thread of photos, with guest appearances by cats.
Main garments sewn this year with shirts and layers made in the years before. Taken by me in my living room, which is how the boys can participate as they please. 😂 Further details in the posts below.
Here it is photographed, #TheLinenWalkingSkirt that I finished quite some time ago. Sewn using a slightly modified pattern from Black Snail Patterns, the 1890s Fan Skirt. I used a medium weight black European made linen, which was lovely to work with. The hem has a relatively deep facing of black cotton twill. It has lovely movement and structure, trust me, or look at the clip in the first tag!
Pretty good for just going on a walk in.
I had enough scraps left over from the jacket and skirt that I wanted to make a simple, untailored vest. #TheWashableLinenVest got swiftly out of hand, but used linen from the skirt and jacket, as well as the hem facing twill from #TheBurntOchreSkirt (photos posted yesterday) and the only thing I had to get for it was matching buttons. The pattern was kind of a disaster, but it turned out nice.
There's only two of these more modern photos and they show off #TheBurntOchreSkirt nicely, so here they are on their own.
The skirt is a 50% linen 50% cotton mix, and my own pattern, using a combination of 1890s drafting guides and late night maths. The shirt is something I made in perhaps 2012 based on my own pattern. Worn over a modern bra, a small bustle pad and two petticoats! The first tag leads to details, progress photos and so on.
I poured coffee all over my house skirt today and am out of other clean comfy options so I put on one of my 18th century petticoats.
They're just two rectangles of fabric, pleated onto two waistbands or ties! Extremely adjustable! Options for separate pockets! Simple and cute! Bring them back 😄