This post got a bit out of hand. I haven't done the Historical Food Fortnightly in... huh... ten years. WHAT. I've definitely done historical recipes in the meantime, but apparently I hav...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2024/04/hfm-24-march-sappy-sweet-syrupy-but-not.html
(OR, ASSUMING EVERYONE IS AMERICAN BY DEFAULT / ASSUMING EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE IS JUST LIKE IN THE USA / THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!) This started out as a "Five for...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2024/01/all-right-this-needs-to-be-addressed.html
Just. You know. Socks. Handknit sock yarn socks. They are, as my sister said, addictive. And she's only wearing them! This is the newest pair, following The Modern Maker's principle of "It...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2023/11/highqualitysockcontent.html
Technically. At least some of them. This is, sort of, a follow up on my last post , and sort of a follow up on an older one that preceded it. A while ago I posted about this 1840s corset from ...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2023/10/i-think-victorian-corsets-are-in-fact.html
It's not for lack of trying. (Well, to a degree it is, but that has more to do with the past three years plus having been... A Thing.) I wanted to make a variation on Fig. F - I did mention that...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2023/10/why-i-have-not-made-bernhardt-stays-yet.html
There hasn't been much posting here recently, for a number of reasons that can be summed up as "Real Life". I have a whole bunch of unposted, unfinished posts in the background. Waiting for photo...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2023/05/where-were-you-when-take-2.html
I've been fed up with RTW bras for quite a while now. The ever-present artificial fibre (even if the bra is mostly cotton, the various findings are not). The fact that I'm nominally one size but...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2021/06/experiments-in-woven-bras-part-1.html
Lockdown is finally slowly lifting, and so we pulled off an outdoors Regency picnic. I had to leave earlier, because there was also a family gathering that weekend, but even then, I got a f...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2021/05/regency-picnic-cechy-po-kosirem.html
No, that's not a mistake: it really is a make from 2017 (in its final finished state). There's really a lot I've never gotten around to blogging about... Once upon a time, I fell in love wit...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/02/hsm-17-1800-sleeveless-spencer.html
So you want to do early Regency but you don't exactly have a columnal figure...? While searching for some other conversation I've found an old comment of mine in a Facebook group, a commen...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2021/03/analysis-of-proportions-of-successful.html
This is a blog post about the wisdom of very careful and detailed measuring of oneself. (It's also one that, for the first time in my blogging history, made me want to go all silly puns with the...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2017/08/coblowrimo-13-pro-tip-maybe-hip.html
I'm finding out this blog has been sadly neglected in the past years and there are lots of things I never posted about. Like my stockings. Which I already made a couple years ago, for some HSM ...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/11/just-pair-of-stockings.html
If you want to draft patterns in Inkscape (which is a free vector aka line-drawing program, aka the free alternative to Illustrator), your best bet is to start by setting up the auxilliary grid....
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/11/drafting-in-inkscape-part-1-grids.html
In the loquatious manner of old books, the full title of this blog post continues: CONTAINING THEREIN AN EXPLANATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DART WIDTH AND DART A...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/05/freesewing-breanna-sloper-problems.html
This dates back to the era of BurdaStyle as a website for OpenSource patterns, and BurdaStyle as a sewing community. Digging back, it seems I made this blouse in 2008? Definitely finished it in 2...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/05/throwback-andrea-blouse-and-pattern.html
It's another thing I learnt from Bilikis . She doesn't even describe it; she just does it whenever she notches seam allowances (so it usually ends up being sped up!). When you have a curved se...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-simple-trick-for-clipping-notching.html
And it's Easter Sunday and I'm alive. Which, given the current worldwide situation, and my last post featuring a flu, is far less of a given than it may normally seem. There have been sudden ...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/04/hes-not-here-hes-risen.html
I've been stuck at home with a flu for over a week. After the first couple of days when I really felt awful, I now feel mostly okay except for a bit of a cough, a bit of a temperature and the fac...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2020/02/deciphering-historical-clothes-c-1840.html
The challenge theme for the Historical Sew Monthly in September is Everyday: It’s not all special occasion frocks. Make something that would have been worn or used for everyday. The Hague...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2019/09/hsm-19-inspiration-9-everyday.html
WHAT THE ITEM IS: Moravian-Wallachian bodice for my sister WHAT IS THE UNEXPECTED FEATURE? The colour blue. These days, the typical Moravian-Wallachian folk costume bodice is red (usually wi...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2019/08/hsm-19-entry-for-challenge-7-unexpected.html
For this year, we decided to switch up the favourites-choosing process somewhat. Last year we slacked off halfway through as we tried to keep doing picks from all the moderators and that became l...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2019/04/hsm-19-favourites-for-1-2-3.html
The second challenge for Historical Sew Monthly 2019 is Linen/linens: make something out of linen, or that falls under the older definition of linens: ie. underclothes (lingerie literally means l...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2019/01/hsm-19-2-inspiration-linenlinens.html
The Historical Sew Monthly challenge for August 2018 is Extant Originals: Copy an extant historical garment as closely as possible. First and foremost, we would like to encourage you to simply ...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2018/07/hsm-18-inspiration-8-extant-originals.html
It's not going to be an overview for beginners's education / advanced amusement type of post. It's just a fun little thing I noticed which marks my own progress. Back in 2011 (whoa), I wrote ...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-historical-costumers-progress.html
When the Historical Sew Monthly started as a Fortnightly, and for several years after, Leimomi would choose her favourite entries for the challenges, picking not just personal favourites but als...
http://marmota-b.blogspot.com/2018/02/hsm-favourites-for-1-mend-reshape.html