At long last, it has finally been a year since I began my sewing journey! August 2020 is when I first picked up a needle and thread seriously. It has felt like far, far longer, but in order to celebrate this milestone, I thought it would be fun to review everything I made in my first year of sewing to be able to share the creations with all of you.
As a kid, I learned how to sew a straight stitch on an electric machine, but that's where my education in sewing stopped. Electric machines terrify me, so when I decided to learn to sew just over a year ago, I knew I wanted to work completely by hand (for a number of reasons). In addition to sewing by hand, I only make historical fashion, since that's what I have been wearing long before I began crafting my own garb.
After crunching all the numbers, this year I was able to hand sew just shy of 20 individual items, which adds up to an estimated total of 1,000 hours! I am so incredibly excited to see what historical clothing is to come over the next 12 months and I look forward to making one of these videos annually for all of you to enjoy.
What are some of the historical garments you crafted this year?
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Where I get some of my historical accessories if I choose not to make them:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ShopBeyondTime?ref=shop_sugg
https://www.darcyclothing.com/
Sources:
-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tubeteika_worn_by_a_Tajik_bride,_2005.jpg
Frank Kovalchek from Anchorage, Alaska, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tubeteika.JPG
-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RU060_10.jpg
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction & Some Background Information
2:58 Garment No. 1
3:34 Garment No. 2
5:25 Garment No. 3, 4, & 5
7:19 Garment No. 6, 7, & 8
10:49 Garment No. 9, 10, 11, & 12
14:07 Garment No. 13
14:51 Garment No. 14 & 15 (Plus a Hat)
17:15 Garment No. 16
17:27 Garment No. 17 & 18 (Plus a Cap)
18:43 Garment No. 19
20:06 Final Thoughts
All music is from Epidemic Sound.
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