2025 Costuming Year in Review

It's time to see how I did this year.

• Projects finished one week before the event. Helpful with triaging projects, and mostly adhered to.
• Finish the chemises and drawers in my WIP basket. Yes. Didn't post them though. And I found a few more cut-out pieces that weren't in the to-sew basket.
• Green plaid 1850s dress. Was able to wear it this summer as planned, though late in posting it. 
• Red wool 1850s basque ensemble. Got it done by Christmas Regale, though not Candlelight.
• Shoes for 1850s wear. And some red plaid side-lacing gaiters. And remade the green/purple plaid gaiters.
• Dotted swiss undersleeves.
• 1850s Nightgown. 
• Wrap Cape. 
•  Linen divided skirt.

Draft Folder: 100. Mission accomplished!

Stretch Goals

• A bloomer costume for Nelly. Turned out to be very quick once I got all the pieces into my workbag.
• 18th century peignoir
• 1850s tucked petticoat 
• 16th century wool gown and kirtle; 14th century wool cotte and surcotte

I also finished some presents this year: warm undersleeves, several different styles of muffatees. 

In the not-planned-before-January projects list, there's also two doll dresses (Harriet's early Victorian dress and Nelly's late Victorian one); storage for my period flatware; a shoe-making tool roll and a hand-bound copy of Every Lady Her Own Shoemaker; an 1850s collar and matching cuffs; and new pair of knit undersleeves.

From the In-Progress basket, I bound the c.1901 corset which I'd originally made for an event in 2023. I also finally finished the tablet-woven girdle that's been on my box loom for a few years.