Mid 1840-50's dress and some plaid breeches with the rest

I am truly the laziest blogger. Sorry for that. I have been up to some sort of interesting stuff tho, like sewing a pair of pants for the first time ever basically for Peter, since we were off to some mid-19^th century events this summer I kind of had to. And for myself I ended up sewing yet another white dress, of some cotton fabric I bought a few years back.
I stressed to get all done by the 6 of June when it was the national day’s big historical picnic. I didn’t get it all finished till then, but enough for us to look proper enough. The weather was a bit untrustworthy so we ended up just staying about two hours or so. I had waited foolishly till the night before to make the sleeves for my dress and they ended up a bit too tight which was a nag. Peter was also oddly complaining about freezing since I hadn’t had the time to do the coat I was planning, but we ended up with some pictures and a nice time while we were there at least.
I also sewed Peters new blue waistcoat.

 Picture by the host.

There were a few things that I needed to fix for the next time we were going to wear this a few weeks later. Peter most definitely needed his coat, a planned “linen” coat, in cotton tho cause the only fabric I had for this was some old curtains in non-bleached linen look, which had to do since I have forced myself to stop buying fabric unless I sew things from what I got laying around the apartment in thousands of boxes…  we live crowded as it is, no need for even more stashes of fabric. :P

The next thing was new sleeves on my dress, ant some boning in front I hadn’t gotten around to fix for the first wear. I ended up sewing on some lace as a try-on too around the neck this time. 

The fabric of the coat, or the curtains as it was from the beginning, was a nasty piece of work to deal with and put together, but I think I made it turn out rather well anyhow. And here are some detailed shots of the waistcoat, pants(and Peter looking funny).
 

And then we were off to the 19^th century days at the open-air museum in Södertälje, Torekällberget. It’s like a small mini-town from the mid-19^th century, one part is the city centre, the other part is like a mini countryside with some cows and ducks and so forth. We also tried a new look on Peter, and trimmed down his beard to a pair of sideburns, and I think it worked rather well!

And the curtains you see in the first picture here was the ones that became... the coat!

 When we got home I was sooooo tired after a hot day in the sun with 5 layers of skirts...

Over and out.