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"Taylor" Made Home School
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Nov. 10, 2007 - A Historical Snippet
Frocks with Room to Grow in
For Our Growing Girls
The Modern Priscilla
February 1925
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From eight to twelve our little girls shoot up like daffodils in the spring rains. Sometimes it seems as though they are all arms, legs, angles and awkwardness- that they outgrow their frocks before you can finish them. But if we choose their clothes wisely and well, most of the difficulties ascribed to the “difficult age†can be happily overcome.
Garments properly cut with ample fullness and large armholes, roomy and soft in line, eliminate the angles and can be worn until they are worn out because there is no “fitting†problem to them. When clothes are comfortable, simple, pretty, but inconspicuous, the girl herself gains poise and freedom from self consciousness that does much to eliminate the awkwardness.
Every one of these practical dresses has been planned to do all that clothes can do for the growing girl. Moreover, all of the dresses are about as easy to make and to launder as a pillow slip.
Bluebell, a two-material frock, 25-4-14, for the lass of about twelve summers is ideal for school and vacation wear. It is equally good made up in an excellent quality, non-crush, fast-color dress linen, or in a less expensive sun and tub proof cotton with a linen-like finish. The body of the dress is a deep Copen blue, the applied hem, collar, and bottom of sleeve, a cool Nile green. Where the hem is applied and the green section joined to the sleeve, the embroidery is effectively placed with green stitchery worked on the blue and blue on the green material. This embroidery is as easy to do as cross-stitch. It is nothing more nor less than running stitch, worked in one direction and then back again filling in the spaces on the return row, so that the result is a continuous line of stitches. (See detail of embroidery.) A simple band of this stitch worked in green follows the line of the long raglan shoulder seams.
The neck finish is the regulation sport type with a green collar and facing for the opening at the front. Eyelets are worked in green at each side of the opening and are laced with cords made of twisted threads of the green embroidery cotton. Little tassels for ends of cord are made of the same thread. It is well to reinforce the bottom of the slash with a few stitches of buttonholing in green. The sleeve is slightly full and gathered into blue bands at the wrists. A girdle may be worn with this frock, or it may be left to hang straight from the shoulders if the unbroken line is more becoming.
Iris is as fresh and crispy cool as spring itself, and is made of lavender and white checked gingham with chambray trims of lavender and yellow. Nothing could be easier to make. There are just two seams and the most abbreviated kimono sleeves, and the dress is simply gathered into a binding at the neck with a shore placket opening at the back. The chambray bands on the sleeves and the wide applied hem on the skirt, as well as the neck band, are all set on with piping of yellow. The appliqué trim is easy to do and really smart. There is a patch of the lavender chambray with a patch of yellow applied to it as the detail illustrates. Cut out the patches 1/4 inch beyond the stamped lines, turn in to the lines and whip down. Apply the yellow patch to the lavender before applying the latter to the dress.
Rosemary is quite ready for her eighth birthday party in her rose pink voile cross-stitched in white and French blue. Note the new bertha, a style feature most becoming to “angles.†The making up consists of seaming at sides, binding armholes with self material (the dress is sleeveless), gathering the two sections of the bertha and neck of dress and binding with voile. Narrow hems on the bertha are blanket stitched with white.
Work cross-stitch border on hem on “wrong side†of material. Turn tiny hem on edge of skirt material and blanket stitch over it. Then turn up deep skirt hem on right side of dress and hem invisibly under blanket stitching. This brings the embroidery on the outside of the hem and makes it easy to let down the skirt.
Narcissus is a little peasant frock of fine white cotton Canton crepe bedecked with red and black cross-stitch. Raglan shoulder seams are finished to give a corded effect. Turn in the edges of armscye and sleeve and bring together, then overcast with long stitches of black. Bindings of self material around neck and slash at front of dress, and around sleeve, plackets, above cuffs, as well as lower edge of cuff itself are overcast with long stitches of black, first in one direction and then in the other to give a cross-stitch effect. Ties of twisted strands of black cotton with tassels are used at neck and to tie cuffs.
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Feb. 26, 2007 - Saturday fun!
My grandmother~in~law and I went to a paper bag class. (Ours are made of white envelopes.) We made a Princess album. It was so much fun. It took us 5 hours to make it. I really didn't expect that amount of time to fly by, but it did. Time flies when you are having fun. I signed up for a Mickey Mouse album class. I will give that as a gift to my SMIL. Her birthday is coming up and I really think that she will like it. She doesn't have a creative outlet like that and she has expressed her fondness of stuff like it. So that is what she is getting. :0) I also signed up for a tour de crop. It is an all day event. We are going to go visit 2 other stores and have lunch at one. But at both of them we are going to make things and get a goodie bag. YOOhoo! I love goodie bags. We also will have door prizes and more cropping when we get back. It will be a lot of fun. Well if you would like to see a few pages of my album you need to click here.
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Jan. 20, 2007 - I have most....
of the day all to myself....again. That is two weeks in a row. I cannot believe it. Last week I was not prepared. But I did find a lot of free patterns and some really neat things to make. I decided to make my sister, Heather, a purse for her birthday. I cannot wait to get started. I will do that today. It is an Amy Butler pattern. I really wanted her fabric, but the store I found here didn't have it yet. :0( I guess I can wait. Well, I ended up getting some pretty fabric I tought she would like. I like it. Hopefully she will.
After I get that started, I am going to cut out my Scottie dog. He is so cute. I got hot pink ribbon with black stichting on it and white and pink flowers to put around its neck. I really hope that turns out. I want to give that to my friend for her birthday next week. I have been wanting to get back to my sewing and I kept making all kinds of excuses, even my sewing room got in the middle of it. I am going to be moving my furniture around and bring in my craft table. I do not have room in the spare room still. I will not let that stop me any longer. Well I am not going to wait any longer the creative juices are flowing. lol
I also sent away for Martha Pullen's Glorious Linens book and cd's. I cannot wait to get that. I have been looking and looking all over for some pretty window treatments that looked vintage, but just couldn't find them within my budge it. I saw her book and had to get it. I will make my pretty curtains. I should be getting that real soon. Yay!
Well I should go and get breakfast going. Madison should be up soon. Have a great day!
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Dec. 30, 2006 - Something Fun!
I got this from Nancy.
February ~ I know I haven't posted anything in awhile, but I was on bed rest.
March ~ It's that time again......well at least for me.
April ~ Well, today is a big day for my dd.
May ~ I had to take a break from blogging.
June ~ We had such a good time last night.
July ~ In everything you do, put God first, and he will direct you and crown your efforts with success. ~ Proverbs 3:6 ~
August ~ I'd laugh today, today is brief, I would not wait for anything; I'd use today that cannot last, Be glad today and sing. ~ Anon.
September ~ Another School Year Started!
October ~ "In modern America, we get men and women together through a system which we are calling recreational dating. "
November ~ Our assignment this week, is to blog about "Getting into the Spirit".
December ~ T'was the month before Christmas, When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying, Nor taking a stand.
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Dec. 15, 2006 - Madison....
recived her doll yesterday. My Grandmother bought her A Life of Faith doll. She has Violet, who is Elsie Dinsmore's daughter. They are real pretty. They even come with bibles and can put their hands together to pray. They are pretty neat dolls. If you know of the Elsie Dinsmore books, and liked them, than you will be happy to know that their are dolls that go along with them. I didn't know that. So I will assume that some of you didn't either and wantd to tell you about them. These are all from Mission City Press. I think they are Christain equivalent to the American Girl dolls. Check it out. They are definately expensive. So this is not for younger than 7. Unless you child loves dolls and takes real good care of them. I made Madison wait a year so she could prove to me she can take care of her stuff. She did real good. I hope it stays that way.
Well a few last words. They have a lot for the young christian girl. Their website has games etc. for them and they even have a club you can start. Kind of like the American girl or Girl scouts. It is a fun website for gilrs.
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Dec. 7, 2006 - I found one!
I just want to say Thank you to Rhonda. She has posted instructions to back up your blog. I really needed that. I always pray that mine would still be there after they were done.  And they were. This time I will be smart, pray and back up.
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Dec. 7, 2006 - Lets Say Thanks!
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