Historical Sew Monthly #4 Circles, Squares, & Rectangles: 1860s Hairnet

Once you get your dress done you work on accessories. Well my dress isn't done but I need to do my HSM for the month. A hairnet is really simple all you need is twill tape, ribbon, a hairnet, wire and thread to match your ribbon. I found some beautiful navy blue ribbon at Jo Anns. Twill Tape is left over from my corset and the wire is from previous projects last year. I got my hairnet from Sally Beauty Supplies.

I'm sorry I can't add pictures but my phone won't turn on. But as soon as I do I will make a post saying that I have updated this post. So you can all see my pretty hairnet.

I took the edge of the hairnet and sewed it to the bottom egde of the twill tape with a whipstich.

I stitched the Ribbon to the center of the twill tape.

I then whipstiched the two long edges of the twill tape together.

I then inserted the wire in it.



What it is: 1860s Hairnet

The Challenge: Circles, Squares, & Rectangles

Material: Cotton Twill Tape

Pattern: None, making it as I went

Year: 1860s

Notions: Ribbon, Thread, Wire, Hairnet

How historically accurate: Mostly. Thread wasn't correct fiber, Hairnet was also not the correct fiber, and Ribbon wasn't the correct fiber, either. Whipstitch was a correct stich to do.

Hours to complete: 1 hour and 30 minutes

First Worn: Haven't yet, when I finish my dress

Total Cost: Everything was from the stash, except for the hairnet, the hairnet cost $1.30.

Drawers

I got my drawers done. They were really easy to make.

They have a yoked waist band. They are gathered at the and are quite spacious. I used Simplicity 2890 for them. There were 8 pieces total but simple to make. I cut it down to a size 8 (I should have cut the waistband to a size 10). I cut of the seam allowance and didn't add the tucks and they came out quite nicely. The waistband is slightly to small, so when I'm wearing them they are bit tight.

What it is: Drawers

Material: 100% Cotton Muslin

Pattern: Simplicity 2890

Notions: Thread, Button

How Historically accurate is it?: 95%. It is made out of  cotton that is historically accurate, but the thread is polyester, and the button is plastic.

Hours to comlete: I don't know procratinated so much on it

First Worn: Last week for pictures

Total Cost: Button $0.40, Fabric from my stash. Total comes 40 cents

May is almost here

I have had a wonderful time on Spring Break. I procrastinated and sewed and procrastinated and sewed and cleaned sewed some more, so I wouldn't have to do my homework. But, I have got my homework done.

While writing this my mom is cooking dinner, it smells so good.

I got my drawers and corset done. My hoopskirt is almost done, on Saturday I will finish the sewing and add the steel. Then I will make the petticoats. On Sunday I will make the bodice. That Saturday after I will make my skirt and attach it, my apron, and my quilted sunbonnet. This week I want to make my hairnet.

For dinner we are having sweet honey barbecue steak with pineapple, straawberries, and salad.

Have a great week,

Love,

Paige

Easter

I hope everyone had a great Easter. My family never have good easter's. Usually someone is sick with flu, stomach bug, or pneumonia. this year e wanted to leave at 9 am. But, that didn't happen. At 10 am we went leave and all the doors were locked. My sister had locked the doors 15 minutes before with the keys inside. We ended up not leaving intil noon. Monday I cleaned my room. Tuesday I worked on my drawers and went to the doctors. I hate going to the doctors.

Finished Drawers.

Wednesday I finished my drawers in the morning. I wrote about my chemise. And in the afternoon I started my corset. I got about half way done with it. Thursday I didn't work on it much. My mom, my sister, and my sister's friend made hats. Plus I needed thread, eyelets and tinsnips. We bought the tinsnips before we headed out to Knight's beginner class. He did really good. He has one more class before "test" to see if will graduate from beginner class.

My mom's hat. She did add some more white flowers to it.

My sister's hat.

Today is really nice outside and I'm going to miss not having school. My science teacher gave every single person in my science class a 300 question test to do overbreak that I haven't started yet. I plan to start it when my mom has my sister at the doctors. Then when my dress is finished and I have cleaned Pumpkin's and Coco's cage I will work on them for 2 hours. What ever I don't have done, I will do Monday night. I plan to get my corset and hoopskirt done today.

Tommorrow i will go to JoAnn fabrics to buy petticoat fabric and then I will sew my petticoats and skirt. Sunday I will sew my bodice and I will be done for know.

Historical Sew Monthly 2017 # 1 Firsts & Lasts: Chemise

Historical Sew Monthly is a monthly historical sewing challenge. In this challenge historical is 1938 and before. Go to the Dreamstress  for more information.

The different challenges are

1.  January: Firsts & Lasts
2. Febuary: Re-make, Re-use, Re-fashion
3. March: The Great Outdoors
4. April: Circles, Squares, and Rectangles
5. May: Literature
6. June: Metallics
7. July: Fashion Plate
8. August: Ridiculous 
9. September: Seen Onscreen
10. October: Out of your comfort zone
11. November: HSF Inspiration
12. December: Go Wild

I will probably do 1, 4, 5, 3, 2, 7, & 10, I will probably do it in this order too.

Today I am going to do #1 Firsts & Lasts

Last week you found out I finished my chemise. I have also finished my drawers and I am about to start my corset.

It was very simple to make up.

Chemise

The Challenge: Firsts & Lasts 

Material: 100% Cotton Muslin

Pattern: My own pattern based of the Fashions of the Gilde Age Vol. 1. I believe it was the chemise with small sleeves. I just didn't add sleeves.

Year: 1883, but I'm going to use it for 1850s - 1860s day dresses

Notions: Thread

How historically acurate is it?: 95%, they did have sewing machines, correct fabric, but, I did use ployester thread.

Hours to complete: I wasn't counting

First worn: When I first tried it on.

Total Cost: I don't know the total cost. I bought the thread a few years ago. The fabric I used for it I have enough left to make my corset and caged crinoline.

I got a chemise done. :(

As you all know there were several things I wanted to get done this weekend. But, I didn't. :( The only thing I got done was a chemise.

I meant to get the other things done. On friday, my mom told me that on Saturday I need you to get up at 5 to watch a little girl that I told her mom that you would watch. I was upset because I had made plans to sew. On sunday I didn't get anything done either. If you have been reading my blog since I started you would know that I have 2 gorgeous guinea pigs. Well I clean their cage on Sunday at 7 pm. But, I wasn't aloud to sew untill I clean their cage. But, with trying to do it at a different time kept throwing me off and distracting me.

Sunday night we had my birthday dinner. My mom made steak.

Monday I recieved my hoop steel and connector

I need to get done this week:
1) Go to Jo Ann fabrics to get an awl, seam sealant and buttons - Wednesday
2) Drawer, cut out and made except for the button- Tuesday
3) Corset, I need to have cut up and to sew it up to the point where I need to put ine bones and busk - Tuesday
4) Hoopskirt, cut all fabric pieces (except for waistband) and all steel pieces and start assembling - Wednesday
5) Add button to the drawers - Thursday
6) Insert bones and busk to the corset, finish seams - Thursday
7) Make the 22 eyelets on the corset - Thursday & Friday
8) Make waistband for hoopskirt and attach - Friday

I will proably have my mom help me with the eyelets.


Have a good week,
Love,
Paige


I'm off to cut fabric

April

Knight Baxter, he is a purebred Black lab who came to our house on 3/17

Saturday 4/01/17: 

It was my oldest guinea pigs 2nd birthday

Sunday 4/02/17:

It was a beautiful day. I started my new job as a Sunday School Teacher. By 11 o'clock it was 75 degrees Farenheit out. I personally think it would have been nicer if it was 80 degrees out as there was a good breeze. 

I keep picking flowers before Knight can eat them.

My mom made some amazing grilled marainated chicken and rice. It has been a long time since we had anything grilled. I hope it stays nice outside for the next few days so I can bike to school.

The Gas and Electric company has been digging up the yards on my street which made last week super muddy.

But, I have gotten tracing my stocking pattern done. So I will make my chemise, drawers, and maybe stockings tommorrow after school.

Monday 4/03/17:

Not much I have gotten done. 

I have gotten my chemise fabric ironed and made one garter. I will probably sew the chemise
 tommorrow unless I decide to go to the vet with my mom. If I do stay home I will make my drawer pattern, iron more fabric, make my drawers, finishing making my garters and maybe sew the stockings, so all I have to wait for is my corset pattern, that gets here friday. I will also have to order my hoop steel if I would want my wire by Sunday.

I will leave you with a ironing board who still has its very first cover from over 17 years ago.

Progress

Hello,

I have a progress/ more clear on what I am going to do for my garments.

I have gatherd some materials for my undergarments - just awaiting the corset pattern and just have to buy the hoop steel

Theese are the patterns I got so far

Past Patterns 1858-1862 Pleated Bodice, My own pattern for the chemise, Kannik's Korner Stockings, Pockets, and Mitts, and Past Patterns !858-1862 Plaited or Gauged Skirts


I still have to make my drawers patterns.

I got two types of cotton muslin. One is a lighterweigt, while the other is heavier

Lighterweight 100% Cotton

Heavierweight 100% cotton

Cotton Twill Tape

Lacing

This is the order I want to get things done:
Theese I want to be done by 4/09
1) Chemise
2) Drawers
3)Stockings
4) Corset

I want this to be done by 4/16
I am hoping to get most of this done on 4/09
5) Hoopskirt

For me we have a school break from 4/15 to 4/23
My event will be on 4/22 so from 4/17 to 4/21 I want to get a few last things done
1) Petticoats
2) Green Cotton Dress
3)Hairnet

This event will be indoors and is my reenacting group's solider & civillian class. My next event will be in May about a month later. I will need to get 2 more items done by then but I want a summer shall to also be done.
1) Apron
2) Quilted Sunbonnet
3) Summer Shall

Depending on the temperature of May I may want to make a teen styled dress for my June event/Summer events. If I do I will need make another
1) Chemise
2) Dress

Depending on the progected heat indexes for Setember/ October I will need to make winter garments
1) Cotton Flannel Modest Petticoat
2) Wool Shall
3) Cotton Flannel Drawers
4) Quiled Petticoat
5) Cotton Flannel Petticoat
6) Cotton Flannel Stockings
7) Green Wool Dress

By October I want to have my
1) Mantle
2) Quiled Winter Hood