Pioneer dress pattern

Free printable peasant dress pattern for adult women.

We recently made this gown for a client who serves as a living historian in Nashville, Tennessee. For this gown, we used our favorite historical pattern company- Past Patterns! Past Patterns has be…

Pioneer Patterns: 21 Sewing Patterns Inspired by Laura Ingalls | Journey to the banks of Plum Creek with these vintage sewing patterns!

I get to go on the pioneer trek this year! I have wanted to go on one of these since I first heard about them for many reasons. Just one of them is the excuse it gave me to sew myself a historically accurate pioneer outfit. Now, trek's are more of a spiritual experience than a strict historical recreation, so this amount of accuracy isn't necessary. But, it was something I loved learning about and doing. For a time I wanted to be a costumer. So, this fulfilled a little of that whim, as well…

Pioneer Clothing for Handcart Trek

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In the early summer of 2017, I was commissioned by director Walcene Metayer and costume designer Rebecca Joy Lewis to create an authentic dress for the Civil War Era film The Fighting Road. It was …

My aunt needed a couple of trek skirts for the stake youth conference coming up, but they were for unspecified young women. I have no idea the height or weight of the girls, so I had brain storm an idea so that it would fit anyone or most anyone AND look a little attractive so that they would wear it. Here is the pattern I came up with. It has a waistband in the front and a drawstring/tie back. The back half extends to 40 inches in length from one side of the front to the other. The front is…

1860s Work Dresses - Decor to Adore

One Pattern to rule them all; One Pattern to make them; One Gal to sew them, and with some changes, fake them! One of the first project goals I ever set for myself way back when I started this blog…