Website to Blog Transition

I’ve discovered the visitation to this blog is much more frequent and consistent than my website. Between this and finding I can put pdf files up easily here, I plan to put more materials here. In the meantime, I thought it would be helpful to link back what is already on the website.

Information for From Field to Fashion: Straw Bonnets is available on the website.

To Net or not to Net is fairly popular, discussing hairnets of the mid-century. http://www.geocities.com/shadowofthesundial/netarticle.html

The original shawl article is available on the website at http://www.geocities.com/shadowofthesundial/earlyvictorianshawls.html. The E-book Early Victorian Shawls is available here https://annaworden.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/straw-bonnet-work-book-early-victorian-shawls/

I have a series resources in PDF format available here http://www.geocities.com/shadowofthesundial/list.html including: Anatomy of a Dress – The basic structure of a mid-century dress.

Anatomy of a Bonnet – The basic structure of a mid-century bonnet.

Fringing shawls – A guide to fringing a wool fabric shawl.

Making Bonnet Ribbons – A guide to making bonnet ribbons from fabric or narrower ribbons.

Event Prep Cheat Sheet- A helpful sheet to help you have the basics for an event.

Introductions- Hints on how to give basic introductions.

Swatch cards template- A template for swatch cards

Transcription of ”Home” by Fergurson and Transcription of “Politeness” by Fergurson

Books and Paper- Information on the sizes of paper and books.

Flowers from Godey’s- These are directions for making various flowers from Godey’s I plan to eventually make. I’ll be adding more directions as I am able to scan more originals and as I attempt each flower.

Packing and Storing Small storage containers for packing and storing small items.

Tents and Camping –

Soldiers’ Aide – Acquisition and Distribution Chart –

Creature Comforts, those things that make life more comfortable at events.

Dining and Entertaining

Keeping your hands busy Needlework ideas for at events

Money and Measures

I am planning on updating and moving over all the Social Movements reading lists from the Social Movement Series in the Citizen’s Companion. For right now, those lists are here. http://www.geocities.com/shadowofthesundial/social.html

I hope this makes accessing things easier for everyone. Thanks for visiting.