Hello Susan,
I've sent a reply to the list, but it hasn't appeared yet, so I'll copy
it below.
Catherine.
On 18/12/2015 05:10, Susan wrote:
Hi all,
I'm still here. I get fed up with facebook, and rarely with email
lists, so happy to see people.
Since you're all here ... I've just gotten i
Lots of luck. My long term "guest". Took longer than planned to leave, I had
to really clean, repaint, and tell myself no! I don't have guest room!
Regina
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On Dec 17, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Wicked Frau wrote:
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>> I am still here. I have been waiting for a long term house guest
Thank you so much for this forwarding of Anne Wrass' article. It is a matter
of great interest to me since this must have been typical for hundreds of years!
Regina
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> On Dec 17, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Sharon Collier wrote:
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> Very interesting article, Ann! Thanks!
> Sharon C.
>
I'm still here too and sad that it's gone. I tried the Facebook but nothing
comes thru. I'm discouraged and not a stupid user. I've been using computers
since ARPANET and Compuserve in the 1980s.
Regina
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> On Dec 17, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Kate Bunting wrote:
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> I'm still her
I vote for fiction. It seems wrong on so many levels. You don’t “cut a hole" in
a (new!) stocking to darn. You cut a thread and let it ravel a little. In that
day, I suspect making ANY kind of hole would never have happened. You wouldn’t
destroy new goods for any reason, much less to make busy w
There is a reference I've been trying to track down. This is one of those
"I heard it somewhere" stories. I asked a couple of groups on facebook
with no results, but maybe it will be familiar to someone here. It was
possibly from a novel, but I don't know if it's from the era or 20thC
historical fi
Hi,
Yes, the farmers smock frocks. That a woman's shift is also called a smock
makes it a bit hard to research on the web. I've requested the Alice Armes
book, another book by Beverly Marshall that says it has some history, the
shire book, and "A Surrey smock: in the Weybridge Museum collec
Congrats on your pattern publication, Emily and I’ll look you up! I am
ever-so-conveniently (but unoriginally) MarjorieW on Rav. :)
==Marjorie Wilser
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Three Toad Press
http://3toad.blogspot.com/
> On Dec 18, 2015, at 8:53 AM, Emily Gilbert wrote:
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> Thanks! I've only h
Maybe, but the family was very much at home in that scene.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
On 12/18/2015 4:02 AM, Elizabeth Jones wrote:
I actually wonder about how charity sewing would fit in to the fancy
vs plain sewing rule in Mansfield Park there is one evening (I think
they have co
Thanks! I've only had one design published so far (the A Second Chance
for Mr. Rushworth Socks in the 2014 issue of Jane Austen Knits
magazine), but I have a shawl pattern that I'm hoping to publish
independently soon. My Ravelry name is LadySylvia; the sock pattern is
linked from my profile,
Bygonne has been wearing a long sleeved tunic fashioned from two pashmina
shawls. It is a sure thing for instant dressup for 2016! Currently on the
ironing board is a sweet mini dress for my grandaughter. Found a piece of kelly
green eyelash that should suit this 13 year old fashionesta!
Of his
I'm still here, though do most of my costume talk on FB these days as well.
I'd LOVE to be making something (so many things!) but I'm working on a book
(not costume related). I've discovered I have time to write or costume, but
not both.
I am still attending the Tudor Tailor weekend next June in
I've been interested in charity sewing, too, and have found a few references in
England. So far, I've had no luck finding firm evidence in the U.S. One of the
things on my to-do list is to search the archives of a local Society of Friends
meeting (Alexandria, VA) and records in Philadelphia to s
I actually wonder about how charity sewing would fit in to the fancy
vs plain sewing rule in Mansfield Park there is one evening (I think
they have company over but I can't remember) when Mrs Norris complains
that Fanny should be sewing and if she has nothing of her own to work
on there is plenty o
While it may or may not have been authentic in the period, I, too, like it for
interpreting at events. One can show what the garments looked like (since you
are wearing them underneath) and also the whole art of hand sewing--but, as you
say neatly and plainly. Of course, as with other reenacting
You mean the farmer's big overshirt, right? (I ask because "smock" was also
used as a term for a woman's shift or chemise, at least in parts of England.
Read about smock races sometime.) Do you have the Shire album on the subject?
Also try "Dress of the People." I suspect the answer to your que
Hi, Susan,
I take it you mean the agricultural worker's smock? (Smock was also used as
a synonym for a woman's shift or chemise.) I've never heard of the outer
garment being worn by women.
Kate Bunting
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Susan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm still here. I get fed up with
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