You may remember this outfit as the one I made to present at a conference last month. Well, I made a hat to go with it (which I ended up changing the design for AGAIN) and wore it for the Doors Open event this weekend, which is an event where many places are open for tours to the public. Our living history group was at Dalnavert House Museum, the ( Read more... )

Of course I needed pockets to put things in. So I made some using the print fabric as the fronts and some scrap plain white cotton for the backs. They aren't as capacious as they could be, but they still fit in the standard range of sizes of pockets from the period that I looked at. They're about 14" long and 10" wide at the bottom (6" wide at the ( Read more... )