Outfiting my Niece

[Mark Wadsworth]

Zou, that sounds simple eneugh. I will check my cutting room and may have something in that order already.

[Mark Wadsworth]

I just checked my fabric stock in my cutting room. I do not have any wool that I can spare. I do have an bunch of red cotton flannel. I am think about making a shawl out of 3 or 4 layers of cotton flannel. My math tells me that 1 1/4 yard if 45 inch wide fabric makes for make for about a 45 X 45 inch wide square.

[blue_zouave]

That sounds great, Mark, and perfectly in the spirit of wartime... making do with what you have!

Zou

[Mark Wadsworth]

With luck every thing that I have ordered will be ready in time. I will try to fit in the shawl in to my sewing schedule. On Fridays when I oil my sewing machines I need to do a bit of sewing on scraps before I can trust the machine to do real work. I will use that to time to stitch the inside of the shawl.

[Mark Wadsworth]

What shape is a shawl?

[CWSeamstress]

If you don't want to buy a cape right now, then a throw size or baby size blanket will work just fine. I used a wool baby blanket at Fort Branch, because my cape did not come in time. What you do is fold the blanket in half from point to point so that it makes a triangle. It works perfect for a cape. I hope this helps!

[blue_zouave]

A shawl can be square (worn folded diagonally) or triangular.

Zou

[Mark Wadsworth]

I have thought about it and with all the garments I have to make already, my neice can make her own shawl. I may have to do some over the sholder time but I can only use one of my machines at a time.

[Mark Wadsworth]

My nieces first event is done and over with. She spent the most of the weekend working in a ladies sutler tent
They fixed her up for the ball also. She was loaned a green dress They she took white flowers and a bow then pinned them to the dress. My niece had her hair braded some sort of French style over her ears, then a hairpiece was added to the back of her head. She was dolled up.
I think that the reenacting bug bit her. Afterwards we got the pictures back. They had shown me what needed to be fixed on her normal dress. Last weekend we took in the hem or the skirts and hoop.


Mark

[Mark Wadsworth]

I was able to edit the pics so that will fit on this as an attachement. I hope it works. This pic is her normal dress. The skirt was shortnened some and of the top was taken in on after the pic was took.