Author: kendra

The Wisconsin Historical Museum has added a fabulous visual tour of children’s clothing — The Children’s Clothing Collection. You can browse by gender, decade, or type of clothing. Go look at frilly undies! Do it!

FIDM has FINALLY gotten around to putting up images from its 2003 Hollywood Costume Exhibit.

I’ve upgraded from my 15-year-old Singer 1022 (zig zag was about as exciting as that machine got!) to the Husqvarna Viking 415. I just took it out of its box tonight, and I can already report that I am excited about: automatic buttonholer (good for modern clothes and buttonholes that won’t show), blind hem stitch, overcast stitch, a bobbin that can be wound without unthreading the machine, and a computerized display that tells me which foot to use and where to set the thread tension!

Spent the last week working on the petticoat (lots of handsewing on the couch watching Manor House)… read more about my 1760 robe a la francaise project

Watching Manor House on PBS is making me want to wear white and play lawn tennis… I really should have been born as Helena Bonham Carter’s character in Room With a View! See images and read about dressing up Edwardian style.