What level are your sewing skills? You might want to cut your teeth on one of the commercial patterns available from Simplicity or McCall's before trying ...
I am looking for a parasol maker in norther Califorina. I have a client who wants parasol with the handel walking stick hieght and she is tall. Thanks, Cathy ...
A recent eBay purchase of a booklet called "Miscellaneous Garments" (published by the Woman's Institute for Domestic Arts & Sciences) held, among other little...
Wow! Thank you so much for including that list. Women certainly knew how to dress back then. The relationship between fashion and a woman's place in 19th...
... yahoo! strips off the attachments -- can you post this to the files? I'd really like to see it. "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without...
I am from Romania,i am at the University of Art in Bukarest ........hmmm ..ok i study fashion design ....and i want to know much more.... . Right now i'm...
Sorry for the cross post. I have put up my gallery from the recent CW reenactment at the Liendo plantation in Texas Nov 18-20, 2005. Please free to pass this...
Sorry for the cross post. I have put up my galleries from the recent Dickens festival in Galveston, TX. http://www.pbase.com/verschoorphoto/dickens05 ...
Dear friend, Season's Greetings and all the best for you, your family and the the people whom you work with. In Lima, capital city of Peru we had a rather warm...
I am planning to present a program on vintage/historical sewing in southeast Georgia. If you're living in the area, and would like to participate by modeling...
... we're having a somewhat colder time up here in the Northern hemisphere: http://cmi-mrtg/images/snow.html "Doctrine is the refuge of the unimaginative...
The Costume Gallery website's 10th year Anniversary is Jan. 6, 2006. Many, many thanks to all of you for making my dream job come true. A very heartfelt...
My name is Debbie. I have just recently taught myself to sew and the main
reason I taught myself was to make Victorian clothes. I'm really new to all
this so...
Hi Debbie, Just read your intro and wanted to let you know about my shop. It is high quality fabrics and supplies for people interested in sewing historic...
Debbie, although I'm sure Union re-enactor groups outnumber Confederate re-enactor groups in Wisconsin, there should still be a few of the latter around. ...
I'm very interested in costuming but lack of knowledge in this area. We have a national historic site in Ft Smith but everyone there acts like they have ...
Hi. My name is Janice. I am also pretty new to the historic sewing circle. I started going to Pow Wow's a few years ago and then got invited to the Mountain...
... Patti, I know what you mean about handling the old mags...I collect pre-1925 needlework magazines and books, and some of them are pretty fragile. Please...
Hi Janice, You can check out www.thedressmakersshop.com It's a shop I started about 2 years ago, first in my house and going to CW reenactments and this fall,...
Kimberly, Just visited your website/store and it is wonderful!! The website is delightful to navigate and your fabrics AND related information was so helpful!...
Unfortunately, not enough of them! but if you scroll down, there are links to an entire volume of Home Needlework (1916), Modern Priscilla (1906) and...
Hi ! I have finished just right now a blouse period end of WWI (Armistice Blouse from Folkwear patterns). I cannot do the 6 mm buttonholes with my machine...
What is your blouse made of, silk or light cotton? Have you tried using one or two layers of "tear-away" stabilizer under the fabric when you try the button...
Mathilde wrote> ... I cannot> do the 6 mm > buttonholes with my machine (just impossible : it's> doing an awfull> mass of thread You could try again, using a...
You could use hidden hooks and eyes as your closures and place the buttons on the outside to be seen- I have a seen several period pieces done that way. Lynne...
Thank you for your answer ! My blouse is not in cotton. It's a blend I think, with cotton and viscose (is that the same in english?).Before I ask on the group...
Thank you for your interest in my problem ! I tried the tissue paper before I wrote my question in the group : nothing better ! I have bought (and put on the...
Tissue paper won't work. It's not the same as tear away stabilizer. You have to get it at a fabric store. Mathilde <bleu_royal_grl@...> wrote: Thank...
