2018 in Review

[atherleisure]

I don’t really have any grand over-arching remarks, but I’m pleased with the things I made this year. It was a small year for events – only four: living history days at the Tucson Presidio, the George Washington Ball in Williamsburg, Costume College, and a Victorian Christmas ball in Mesa – but maybe that helped me to make a few things that I actually wear in real life. I hope 2019 will have more events.

January:
Mid-18th century stays




February:
Embroidered 1750’s sacque and petticoat


1940’s green wool jersey dress


Miscellaneous household items (curtains, crochet hook case, dance shoe bag, and Nook case) (not pictured)

March:
1861 copper spoon bonnet (still waiting for trim)


19th century garters for E (not pictured)

May:
1797 tamboured voile dress

(photo by Eryn Meeks)

June:
1790’s silk gauze fichu

(photo by Gloria Sheu)

Gray wool vest


1940’s green wool half-circle skirt (not pictured)

July:
Flowered Swiss dot 1940’s dress


Black half-circle skirt for my mother-in-law (not pictured)

Striped lawn 1900’s shirtwaist


August:
17th century knit garters


3 pair of dragon wings for kids (not pictured)

1880’s bustle


1900’s corset


September:
Triceratops costume


Devil genie costume


Vampire costume


1930’s blue linen/cotton sweater


3 felt applique Christmas ornaments


October:
1895 gold silk tatted garters


1918 ivory sateen dress


November:
1880’s red/cream check ball gown


1883 chemise


December:
“Window Shopping” cross-stitch


1940 tan plaid wool dress


UFO’s
“Southern Belles” cross-stitch: This is about 3/8 finished. It’s a background project that I work on when I want some hand-sewing but don’t have a hand-sewing project in progress. Sometimes I try to alternate days on it with days on my current sewing project. My goal is to finish it by the end of 2020.

White wool 1948 cardigan: I finished the year with fifteen rows left to go on the second sleeve. The body was blocked and sewn together. New Year’s Day I finished knitting the sleeve and knit the collar and blocked both those pieces. I sewed the rest together on the second so this is no longer a UFO, but it was at the end of 2018.



Putting this together has made me realize that I’m actually rather in arrears on posting finished projects so I’ll have to put some effort into that over the next few weeks.