It is customary at the turn of the year to review sewing accomplishments and set goals for the upcoming year. This year, I'm not going t...

I don't know why, but "gaggle" just seems like the right term for people in 1830s clothes! Through a mix of intention and se...

Last Saturday was Fezziwig's, and the first wearing of my 1830s dress! I was so pleased with the way this came out, from my petticoats...

One last progress post about my 1830s ensemble. I realized pretty early on that I wasn't going to get my act together on a sash like my ...

I am very excited to say that I got a new job, and I had a whole week off in between! So this week I've been enjoying the luxury of work...

Despite a crazy fall (shenanigans! upheaval! homework!), I really wanted to make a new dress for Fezziwig's Ball, our annual Dickensian ...

By the second decade of the 19th century, urban areas like Boston found themselves running out of space to bury their dead. As a solution...