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The Historical Sew Monthly 2016 – it’s on!

The Historical Sew Monthly 2016 is on! The page is up (you should be able to access it through the button above – the sidebar button will be up soon), and all the challenges are up. This year the challenges are all new.  We’ve taken input from all the suggestions that came in this year, and suggestions from previous years to come up with 12 themes to motivate, inspire, and (most importantly) challenge you.  Hope you like them! The overall format has stayed pretty much the same from 2015, but there a few small but important tweaks.  The date range has been moved back to pre-WWII, and the emphasis on historical sewing has been made clearer. Can’t wait to see what everyone makes in 2016!

Five last-minute historical Halloween costumes

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Halloween, of course! If you are still in search of inspiration, here are five fabulous and ridiculous historical costumes that really wouldn’t be that hard to make. #5 Candy Girl: To make: 1) Take any outfit.  2) Staple candy all over it.  3) Be most popular person at the party! #4 Wild Men There is a long tradition of wild men costumes, and they are really easy to make: just glue grass and leaves all over a onsie.  Historical, awesome, and scary. Just try not to light yourself on fire, OK? A more modern (and less flammable) would be to go as a head of cabbage: just stick cabbage leaves to yourself: #3 The Scrap Album: Scrap Albums were fashionable throughout the later 19th century, and were just albums filled with cutouts of pretty images – they were so popular they could could buy specifically made pre-cut out images in thousands of themes.  I LOVE that this fancy dress actually is a scrap album, with real scrap …