Community Cast Video Day 86

Today’s video ponders some sewing options.

Here is first unboxing I did when my Family Heirloom Weavers bundle arrived.

Here is the surprise unboxing.

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Community Cast Video Day 85

Today’s video includes my current straw millinery project, slippers that arrived, and some Q&A.

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CCV Day 84 part B – Hat Ties

Aka: I flaked and forgot

Aka: How to keep your hat on

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Community Cast Video Day 84

Today’s video includes Q&A, a survey of ginger beer, and silks in the mail.

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Community Cast Video Day 83

Today’s video focuses on learning and understanding.

Please take some time to visit Interpretive Challenges to find “A New Freedom Summer and Beyond Reading ListThis list was compiled for readers “who are interested in the struggles, successes, failures of Black people to be treated with dignity and humanity.

One of the books added to my Amazon list The Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade.

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Community Cast Day 82

Today’s video includes a myriad of…. Thunderstorm light shows, rain, blanket lint, doll plans.

Flashback…. I thought it would be nice to share some of my previous videos. Here is a demo I did last April during the Antique Show and Sale.

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Community Cast Video Day 81

Today’s video tries something different: “what’s in the box?”

Flashback….. This is a look at the Victoria’s Closet 1850s exhibit at GCVM.

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Community Cast Video Day 80

My apologies for the very short video this morning. I am just worn through.

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Community Cast Video Day 79

This is a rougher video. Sorry about my state of dysfunction.

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Community Cast Video Day 78

Today’s video includes opening a $10 find, my latest hat with a fun sale, and the cloth doll we made at camp so many years ago.

A close up of the front facing, corded and lace trims, as well as the piped edge.

A look at the stitches seen inside.

The piecing on the bavolet/curtain. This little wedge gives the bavolet fullness from the neckline down.

While eating breakfast after recording, I recalled another bonnet in my collection, an adult size one, with a similar silk fabric. Luckily, I had a photo already up on WordPress. It isn’t quite the same, but does have the triple shades of purple.

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