while i am traveling, i am staying at my mamas and she has a sewing machine so i am taking advantage of it (since i dont have one at home :D)

yesterday evening - i made these (both younger girls and their dolls got them but i only got sarah on camera)

the traditional pseudo-historical mob cap (that all sca people and re-enactors hate with a passion, but i thought they woudl be cute for the girls anyway - since we aren't going to be re-enacting or anything)

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and in my signature.


this evening - today i made the prairie bonnets, lyl was the only one i got on camera this evening. this almost didn't happen, i kept reading the pattern and telling myself it would be cheaper to just buy one ready made than to go to all the trouble. but if it's anything i love it's a challenge. so i sat down and was determined to master it!


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i wasnt trying to be historically accurate with any of them, just wanted the girls to have some cute stuff to play in. i hope to finish the costumes to go with both this week

great. Now start making caps for 1690 & we're in business!

Chole

great. Now start making caps for 1690 & we're in business!

Chole

:D i was actually looking at your pictures earlier today to see if i could figure it out without a pattern (i need some projects for when i get back home and have to go back to handsewing)

so what manuals do you recommend? if any...

Great hats!

:D i was actually looking at your pictures earlier today to see if i could figure it out without a pattern (i need some projects for when i get back home and have to go back to handsewing)

so what manuals do you recommend? if any...

So far there isn't a pattern for GAoP period caps, just those darned mop caps that are *so* not historically correct. Best you can do is this page (http://www.marquise.de/en/1700/howto/frauen/18hauben.shtml) & do the math to figure out the inches vs. cm measurements. Hence the reason it took me 3 tries to get it right! Although I have heard that Reconstructing History (http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/) #713 will have a cap pattern in it. Not that I'm stalking or anything :lol:

Chole

So far there isn't a pattern for GAoP period caps, just those darned mop caps that are *so* not historically correct. Best you can do is this page (http://www.marquise.de/en/1700/howto/frauen/18hauben.shtml) & do the math to figure out the inches vs. cm measurements. Hence the reason it took me 3 tries to get it right! Although I have heard that Reconstructing History (http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/) #713 will have a cap pattern in it. Not that I'm stalking or anything :lol:

Chole

past patterns doesn't have one yet? weird. oh YOU should make one and market it :D

OT: i really really want a regency gown. i had one when i was a teen and would pretend i was mary wollstonecraft - but at 31 i can't figure a way to play dress-up and not get carted to the looney bin (i am aware of no regency re-enactors in my area).

now if i wanted to re-enact the war of northern aggression, like my mama did, then yeah - but i believe i had my fill of that when i was a preteen. i do not care to continue to fight the war between the states over and over (knowing my side will never win lmao).

sometimes i really miss being goth and going to the clubs, i sometimes think the whole reason i got into it was because it was license to play dressup :D

now one of my husbands friends works at medieval times, he gets paid to dressup and fight on horseback.

okay i am rambling, must go shower and start the pioneer nightgowns or the 1960s kindergarten dress - haven't decided yet

LOL, you need to be a pirate. Free license to dress up, go out drinking (it's almost a requirement) & if anyone makes fun of you, you can either shoot em with your blunderbuss or gut them with your cutlass.

Chole

LOL, you need to be a pirate. Free license to dress up, go out drinking (it's almost a requirement) & if anyone makes fun of you, you can either shoot em with your blunderbuss or gut them with your cutlass.

Chole

hmmmm wonder if there is a local group....

:lol:

i will just come by your place this summer, while i am touring, and hang out with your pirate friends

added pictures of the matching doll hat :D

i made it to fit their waldorf dolls, but this was the only doll handy

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Branwyn,

What pattern did you use for your Prairie Bonnets? If it's on the web, please share!

Lori

Those are cute! I have a pink flowered/flocked bonnet my mom made me when I was younger.

Branwyn,What pattern did you use for your Prairie Bonnets? If it's on the web, please share! Lori

here ya go!
Make Your Own Sunbonnet'– in Less Than Two Hours (http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/1978_July_August/Make_Your_Own_Sunbonnet___in_Less_Than_Two_Hours)

Ha! That's the one I just found when I Googgled! Thanks!

Lori

How cute!