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    Wearing your grandma’s curtains or making a regency dress out of recycled materials

    August 25, 2022 / No Comments

    How can you use recycled materials in historical costuming? What are my tips in finding the best materials in thrift stores?

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  • Iron Age costume
    Leather working,  My projects,  Sewing,  Shoemaking

    Time-traveling to the Iron Age with my daughter

    July 18, 2022 / 1 Comment

    I made an Iron Age Finnish costume for my daughter so that we can take part in events together. Also, I did some leatherwork...

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  • My lingerie dress.
    Millinery,  My projects,  Sewing

    A Victorian lingerie dress

    June 14, 2022 / 5 Comments

    Lingerie dresses are those pretty frilly dresses that make the iconic Edwardian look with their lace inserts and pale colours. However, they first appeared in the 1890s. For a long time, I have wanted to make my own but sourcing that much lace was a problem. This kind of dress can use hundreds of euros worth of cotton lace which is way out of my budget. Then I had a stroke of luck and I found huge rolls of lace at the local Recycling centre. These rolls had hundreds of metres, some several kilometres worth of lace and they only cost about 15 to 20 euros each. Admittedly the lace…

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  • My Adele dress from the book Helmat.
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    Adele dress from the new book “Helmat”

    June 2, 2022 / No Comments

    My book review of the new Finnish sewing book Helmat and the Adele dress I chose to make using a pattern from the book.

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  • Sedavi for winter
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    Pauline Alice Sedavi dress for winter

    February 22, 2022 / 3 Comments

    I made my daughter the Sedavi dress by Pauline Alice but turned this summer dress into a winter dress with long sleeves.

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  • The Finnish Iron Age Costume
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    The Finnish Iron Age Peplos and the Final Costume

    February 17, 2022 / 4 Comments

    The last part of my Finnish Iron Age costume is the peplos dress. It took me 6 months to construct the whole thing. Now it comes together!

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  • My projects,  Sewing

    Sewing a Finnish Iron age dress (works also for the Medieval era)

    January 9, 2022 / 5 Comments

    I sewed an Iron Age dress that a Finnish woman would have worn under her peplos and apron. This dress works also for the Medieval era.

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  • My projects,  Sewing

    A last-last minute party dress

    December 4, 2021 / 4 Comments

    Sometimes even a rushed project with all the ingredients for disaster succeeds and the result is a beautiful silk party dress.

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  • Edwardian evening gown.
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    A Belle Époque evening gown in a day and a manor house weekend

    October 17, 2021 / 8 Comments

    I made an Edwardian evening gown in a day to join a turn-of-the-century manor house weekend.

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  • My mothers Saraste dress.
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    Saraste dress for my mother

    September 8, 2021 / 1 Comment

    I made the Saraste dress from the book Breaking the pattern for my mother from the lovely Atelier Brunette viscose.

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