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I love that wrapper. It has just enough "pretty" with the scalloped hem. I do wish I cut the sleeves a bit wider but I can fix that later on.

Perhaps you were thinking of tartan? It's a plaid fabric usually associated with Scotland.

I usually just make yeast potato bread if it's just me eating it. I like sourdough, but I also don't always want to wait 24-48 hours when I decide that bread sounds good.

With how starters were just balls of dough, that makes sense!

Good luck! Sourdough is a lot about just "feeling" the dough and experimenting to figure out what works for you and your kitchen.

Perfect timing, too, with the cooler weather upon us. Ready to fire up the oven!

@@kringle-jelly Perfect cozy timing for a video, but I filmed all this in July in Texas so it was HOT. Not as much fun as it would be now.

@@KatelynKearnsOops, I though I had seen this earlier but didn't have time to watch. I used to be your neighbor in Ark, so I know how hot it can get. High temps with major humidity - jungle weather! As a I was happiest when watermelon season rolled around! Thanks sharing your baking talents in one of the hottest months of the year in the deep south ❤️

Thank you!

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As stated, it's similar to a very starched cheesecloth. Very loosely woven but extremely stiff-almost like cardboard stiff. It's not anything like modern muslin. It has the weave of cheap modern cheesecloth but the stiffness of a heavyweight millinery buckram.

I do love it! I don't like high collared necks however so if I ever recreated the shirt, I would have to make a lower neckline for myself.

Yes, please do!

Yes, you do! The never ending to do list...

Thank you very much!

Good luck on your own quilt! I am also not a fan of modern quilts-it's just too much

They had some neat ways to do things back then that are just fascinating!

I'm a always more ruffles person, too!

This is where I got mine: shop.takachpress.com/tarlatan-stiff-yard/.

I'm taking apart an old piece that was made horribly as I type. So I totally understand having to take things apart. But I've seen enough originals to know that they had poor seamstresses back then, too!

Looking back at it, I don't think I have enough fabric left for a skirt ruffle so if I added anything, it would have to be a small ruffle on the bodice or sleeves somewhere. :(

@@KatelynKearns well it is very beautiful just as it is! Those bias ruffles take a lot of fabric lol!

@@stitchingincostume Ruffles really do take a ton of fabric! Even if they're lightly ruffled.

I'm glad you liked it!

Unfortunately, my knowledge for the 19th century ends at 1883 so I won't be help at all for anything that late-I've never done it. Marna Davis would be a great person to talk to about that, but she mostly focuses on American clothing. She's coming out with a Dress Historian's Field Guide on the 1890s that may be helpful to you and she's said she'll be doing other decades as well. I think preorders for her 1890s guide just ended yesterday but once they're printed, she'll likely have more copies available. This is her Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/WickedStepmothers?ref=usf_2020.

Thank you!

That's wonderful! I have my great grandmother's 1907 treadle, too, and it works wonderfully!

@@KatelynKearns amazing 🌻🥰

I have a lot of teaching videos on the channel!

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Which shirt, the romper shirts in the background or the one I'm wearing?

@@KatelynKearns The one you're wearing. :)

@@NoraRoisin It's Dharma Trading's twist tee top. You buy them white and dye them yourself (Dharma sells fantastic dyes but you can also use Walmart RIT dyes). www.dharmatrading.com/clothing/women/twisted-front-tee.html?lnav=default.html

I did a mini short video on the treadle machine! ruclips.net/user/shorts59ak187xsI4

The dry cleaner I took my handmade wedding dress to wasn't rude, but I could tell she wasn't pleased with the interior of my dress. I used historical techniques-they didn't finish their seams most of the time and I didn't either. If she had said anything, I would have told her, well, your great grandmother's wedding dress likely looked like this on the inside, too, so quit picking on me. :)

@@KatelynKearns@KatelynKearns At the time, I wouldn't have dared, but my mother spoke up pretty sharply: "It's handsewn; you try it!"

@@nokomarie1963 Good for your mom for sticking up for you!

I wear the plain dress (without overskirt) as cooking/cleaning dress for summer frequently so it would be cumbersome for me to take the lace on and off but it would be a good idea for a future nice dress!

Thanks! I feel like the dress needs a ruffle somewhere on the bodice to "go" with the overskirt.

They're cute! We just hatched 8 more chicks so more chirping will be happening in future videos.

I love that it's unlined so it makes a fantastic warm weather dress!

@KatelynKearns i just realized the other day that the micro check I have would be fantastic for this dress! I have oodles of yardage to make all my ruffle dreams come true!!!

@@susandavis3270 Any type of check or plaid always looks good with bias ruffles! It just adds to the detail!

I wish I had enough fabric for a skirt ruffle, but I don't. I could add a smaller ruffle at the neck, though.

If you need a pattern, I highly recommend the ones in the description. It's the pattern I made this dress from.

Thank you so much!

@@KatelynKearns My pleasure!

Yes, she's a treadle! I have a short on her somewhere with a little more information if you're interested: ruclips.net/user/shorts59ak187xsI4.

@@KatelynKearns Oh, thank you!

"Work dress" is such a nuanced term. A farmer's wife doing laundry is wearing a work dress but so is the middle class woman supervising servants doing chores while wearing an older silk wrapper. If you're speaking of cotton dresses in general, they can be yoked, not yoked, gathered at the waist, pleated at the waist, buttoned, hooked and eyed, hook and eyed with fake buttons over top, etc. Plenty of options!

In adult size, they look like little Regency style empire waist dresses!

8 is when I started wearing dresses exclusively. I think there's something about that age where kids begin really knowing what they want.

Yes, boys wore dresses, too. Ultrasounds weren't around yet and it wasn't practical to hand sewn 2 entirely different wardrobes just to end up only using one so infant clothing was unisex. When babies start to be mobile, the skirts are shortened (either by adding tucks or cutting and rehemming the whole thing to be above ankle length which helps with movement.

Well, there was an entire thing about graduating clothes as the young man grew up, the same thing as the girls letting down their dresses and putting up their hair.

I know I've been at every level! Even when I know better.

@KatelynKearns same, girl! Same. When I was a kid I definitely didn't know better but I do now and information is waaaay easier to obtain than it once was, so there isn't any excuse.

It comes out November 4th!

It's beautiful, isn't it? I love it so much. I think it would be adorable as a toddler's dress, too. Maybe trimmed out with velvet ribbon.

@@KatelynKearns Super cute and I need some of my own! :) lol

I agree! I especially love the fabric prints they had then.

Welcome aboard! Thank you!

That's so cool! What happened to the knitted band after your grandmother had it? I bet she had some awesome stories!

@@KatelynKearns If my mother (who knew what they were) didn’t throw it out, it went to the Jordan, NY historical society. I’m not sure if they kept it hidden in a box, or tossed them. I liked that a woman could make her belt as wide as she needed. Good childbearing hips are wide, so the crotch space between the legs is wider too, something modern pad makers should pay more attention toward.(rant done now) Both my grandmother and her sister (who became a doctor) stressed that life was extremely difficult for women around childbirth. Women had to have many female relatives to support them. The blood flow after birth was easier to manage if the mother stayed in bed, this included women who had heavy periods. Many homes had little rooms behind the kitchen for these laying in periods. (Also useful for caring for a sick relative) My grandmother and aunt mentioned that women knew their periods would be lighter if they ate less. In the natural pecking order of an average household the men ate first, then the children, then the wife, then the “maiden “ aunt, and grandmother. The pecking order for food consumption naturally kept the weight off the adult women in the household. It also meant that in Darwin’s natural selection women survived to raise their own children and become grandmothers only if they could eat very little food, AND be a work powerhouse. (This goes a long way to explaining obesity in women now!) The roles of the aunts and grandmothers in the household also intrigues me. I’m sure the husbands were looking at these women as extra mouths to feed, but the wife saw them as her personal cheerleaders and the difference between life and death (not just for her but also for her children). It goes a long way to explaining the huge mortality rate of women and children in Western colonialism. It makes me think about how indigenous people’s natural matriarchal societies were destroyed. Yeah, I went down this rabbit hole from a historical sanitary belt.

It absolutely could be. I haven't studied court records enough to know who was often blamed for things like rape (the rapist or the victim) and I imagine it would change based on the area and the standing of the woman in question. It's on my list of things to look further into.

Sorry that's gobbled gook, not having a good day myself 😅. ❤

That is very true. I'm still waiting on the pieces to get here so I can finish warping it but a good friend has given me an expert to talk to so hopefully I can get it all sorted.

He certainly likes to make his voice heard!

It's sewn on with a feather embroidery stitch overtop to decoration.

Thank you for watching!