Since there weren’t a lot of events in 2021, I tried to spend time on more time-consuming projects. I still made some quick stuff, but I didn’t feel that I churned things out.

( This year’s projects behind the cut )

I finished copying the patterns I borrowed and returned them this week.


( Read more... )

I knit right about 20 rows of the waistcoat in the last week. That puts me inside 200 rows.

A friend at work loaned me some patterns that belonged to his mother for me to copy so that's cutting into my knitting time. They're from the 1940's and 1950's. The first three had obviously been used because there were pieces missing or alterations pinned ( Read more... )

I finished a 1940's dress around Thanksgiving. It's made of a lightweight wool in a really pretty coral color. The facing bits are done in a cotton print that was an almost perfect color match.

I used this reprint of a pattern from 1943 by Eva Dress, which I just loved when I first saw it. https://evadress.com/collections/1940s/products/1943- ( Read more... )

2020 was an odd year, no doubt. I was lucky that I was able to go to the George Washington Ball in Williamsburg the week before everything spiraled into chaos. With nothing else going on, I got a lot more time for needlework than usual this year, and by summer I realized I was churning stuff out way too fast. I started working on things that ( Read more... )

I finished an 1880's bonnet back in...October, was it? I kept meaning to do my hair and take pictures but didn't. Today I finally dug out the styrofoam head and took pictures of the bonnet on it.

The pattern is the Penny Dreadfuls 1880's Peaked Bonnet Pattern (https://www.1886location.com/shop/1880s-Peaked-Bonnet-Pattern-p207317054). It's a very ( Read more... )

I worked a little on all my in-progress projects this week and started a new one.

1. 1897 shawl - I'm still plugging away at the trim; I'm getting close to 50 repeats finished. I'm trying to do one repeat a day on the days I go to work and two on the days I don't.

2. Cable-knit cardigan - I started the back last week and got through almost 1.5 ( Read more... )

I have had a couple of modern dress lengths of wool in my stash for several years, and I finally felt like making one of them up last month.
( Read more... )

I've got a new dress to post about, but I'm not up for that tonight. It's nearly bedtime ( Read more... )

I finished a plaid wool dress on New Year's Eve, making it my last finished thing for 2018. It's another Vintage Vogue pattern, this time a reprint from 1940 V8811. It's made of a light-weight wool twill with the bodice lined in cotton batiste and facings in a slightly heavier cotton that was close in color to the wool ( Read more... )