Creativity of the week: I worked on my 1830s corset, which seems to fit well. Mended a few things. And today @lithiablack visited for more 1830s talk and pattern tracing. Spacecat Spiff helped. And I read two books. One reread, “Gullstruck Island “ by Frances Hardinge, and one new, The Devouring Gray” by Christine Lynn Herman.

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No creativity of the week today, as the inky thing I did past week was seeing in my Robe Volante. I didn’t even finish a book! So I’m borrowing this from @thebohemianbelle1800 All the time periods I have made clothes for, as of now. From the 1660s to the 1950s. Though the last three decades are just my everyday clothes. I want to make more 17th century (always), and this year I plan to add the 1830s and also make a proper Regency gown. Which decade is your favourite?

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Finished my Robe Volante which have been in my UFO pile for several years. Black silk taffeta and metal lace from my stash. I need to do a few changes in the front, but in the while I’m pleased with it. Though my hoops has a nervous breakdown when we were about to leave and had to stay at home. I never thought wearing a black tent would feel so flattering.

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Creativity of the week. Normally I hate deadlines, but I really want to finish my Robe Volante UFO for a masked ball next week, so this week I have concentrated on that. Finally got the sleevils in, after 3 tries, and the front pleating. Because of deadline i haven’t done anything else. And I finished the 3 last Penric and Desdemona novellas by Lois McMaster Bujold. All rereads, and very enjoyable rereads too.

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Creativity of the week. 1. Finished the bindings of my re-made stays. The original stays had grown too big, so I cut the down using @scrooppatterns Cassandra stays pattern, though keeping the original boning pattern. 2. I continued with Lois McMaster’s Penric and Desdemona novellas, and finished four. 3. I didn’t finish 7 small drawings, but I did 4. Good enough.

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Another dress I’m low-key hankering after, is this one my great-great-grandmother Matilda wore around 1898-99. Lovely fabric, and fun details. She was born in 1860, so would be in her late 30s here. It’s nice to see how much thought that has gone into her and her daughter’s clothes, with my great-grandmother Lydia (the oldest, born in 1885), and the next oldest wearing a matching set. They were a working class family in Stockholm, so not well-off at all. It’s also interesting to see how fashion progresses. The next photos are from around 1905, 1909 and 1919. The two last ones with Matilda, Lydia, her oldest daughter and Matilda’s mother Lovisa, who was born in 1832.


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Through the whole 17th century in Scandinavia, women of a certain class seem to have almost a uniform. Black jacket and skirt, with a black cap with a white undercap. White collar and cuffs, and sometimes a white apron. It’s the wives and daughters of priests and wealthy men who (mostly) weren't noblemen. Christina Spak here, my 9th great-grandmother, was married to a mayor. Spak in Swedish means “meek”, which I find funny, as she doesn’t look the least meek. Another on my wishlist I have the fabric for, and I always need more 17th century in my life.


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