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When it comes to historical events and travelling, the past three years have been busier for me than any of my previous years in the hobby before. It has been absolutely wonderful but it also meant that when I've been at home, I have been frantically preparing for a trip on my time off, which lead to the complete neglect of this blog. With the limited free time and energy available, I've chosen sewing over updating the blog. Also, in the past three years I've found, like so many of you, that…

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I set about making the pieces for this outfit last summer, determined to take every stitch by hand, and construct it as authentically as possible. Museum Link: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O127162/gown-unknown/ The first step was designing the jacket. I saw this dress on pinterest, and loved the button closure design, but discovering the dress had been altered in the late 1760's and again in the 1950's, I was concerned the style was too late for our 1750's/1760's French and Indian war…

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