Buckled Military Stock for Christmas: Sewing Journal
When we visited the Colonial Williamsburg Costume Design Center Open House last year, my son and I held a military stock in our hands.
My son’s eyes shone!
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
When we visited the Colonial Williamsburg Costume Design Center Open House last year, my son and I held a military stock in our hands.
My son’s eyes shone!
After our last trip down to Colonial Williamsburg which turned snowy, my daughter asked for mitts to keep her arms warm!
I followed the instructions for item #21 in the book, Costume Close-Up by Linda Baumgartner, based on examples from the Colonial Williamsburg collection.
When the director of the Costume Design Center heard of coat #2, she handed me proper wool samples, encouraging me to get broadcloth wool for the next one.
As the sun began to set in the late afternoon, the chill of the air caused my kids to don their winter cloaks, sadly of the 19th century.
Remembering us from last year’s open house and the nine sewing classes I took with them this year, they gave us excited greetings and hugs!
This new coat is completely hand sewn, with twenty-two fabric covered buttons, another first for me to complete for an outfit.
When I told the tailor that I messed up the new frock coat I sewed for my son from a drafted pattern in Costume-Close Up, he asked what I was talking about.
Then I looked at frock coats in Costume Close-up: Clothing Construction and Pattern 1750-11790, written by Colonial Williamsburg’s Linda Baumgartner.
One of the CW employees pointed out my son should not be using a market wallet because he’s dressed as a gentry boy.
Only the middling were known to use these.