I haven’t exactly been secretive about my wish to make another Victorian dress I believe. I’ve just now finished it! The dress that is…
I have no occasion planned (yet) for wearing this, the reason I made it was just purely because I wanted to. Seeing as a dress like this requires quite a lot of [...]

It has long been my intention to make myself a Victorian corset. But I never got around to ordering a pattern for it. And I was convinced that I needed a pattern. However, after a long time I finally gave up and decided to go ahead and make one anyway. So I did. Since I [...]

Finally today I was able to finish it! And I will say that I am more than a little pleased with my new beautiful dress!
Some of you might remember that before I actually began working on this I had an idea that I wanted to make a ball gown out of pink silk. I discussed [...]

The time of my departure for Florence is drawing closer. It’s only a little more than a month left until the day I leave, which will be the 20th of May. I booked my tickets a short while ago. I’m getting wonderfully excited about it all!!!
I’ve spent some time searching around for a good and [...]

I just wanted to post a couple of great links. First one to Social Customs During the Regency Era
The other one is to the

Yes that is right, the answer to my little guessing-game is a bonnet.
I wanted to make another bonnet, but I didn’t have anything to make it out of, or so I thought… I searched through the house to see if I could find anything that could possibly work, and I did.

I found this old place [...]

Or maybe I should say some gorgeous gowns instead, that might be more appropriate. I have just been spending some time browsing through the online collection of historical garments found on this Danish website Tidens Tøj.
They have so many pretty items on there! Apparently this collection is a part of the National [...]

I wrote about Lark Rise to Candleford before, this summer when we had just finished watching season one of this series. We all loved it, and for a long time I have impatiently been waiting for the opportunity to see season two. And finally that opportunity came!

I was delighted when I found out that this [...]

One of the first steps in starting a new sewing project is finding the right fabric for it, and my upcoming Regency dress has just reached the stage where I have done that. I mentioned before (at least I think I did) that I had a dream about making a ball gown out of pink [...]

Elizabeth over at Rapunzel’s Resource is right now doing a week with tutorials based on six different hairstyles from Miramax’s Emma. I think this is a lovely idea, and I’m glad that she is doing this, since I personally think it can be hard to come up with different Regency styles that I can use. [...]