Are You Ready to Make the Clothes and Accessories
Found with the Real Hitty at the Stockbridge Library?
......................................................................©2006
Julie G. DeGroat
In the months to come, we will attempt to recreate the
items shown in this picture.
Student Pictures:
Undergarments
Hitty's
Quilt
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The Brown Dress with the green vines and pink rosebuds.
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The
Plum Dress with the 'Figure-eights'
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The Paper-covered Hat Box
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The Three Bonnets
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Hitty's 'Book' Clothes
(as decribed or shown in the book)
These are free Tutorials
| The Petticoat and Pantalettes |
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Buff calico strewn with small red flowers |
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A "voluminous dress of cotton print, in a far from gaudy pattern." |
A shawl made from a bit of sash from Thankful's dress. |
Brown sprigs on buff calico dress. |
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A braided rug |
the watered-silk dress
with draped skirt, fitted waist, and innumerable bows... |
The wedding dress made
from the wedding handkerchief |
A plaid calico dress
"...nothing more than a square of cloth with holes cut for
my arms and a pin that stuck into me to hold it in the back."
from Car'line. |
A dress of sprigged challis,
in the style of Miss Pamela's childhood |
A Bonnet with Rose Trims |
Click the Links for details! (Not all classes are available yet.)
Don't forget to check out our Hitty's Heirloom Quilt Class, already available.
Or
out Undergarments Class, already available.
Below are some fabrics I found at Jo-Ann Fabrics.
While not a perfect match, they are at least similar to some of the
Real Hitty's clothes.
..........Pink
Bonnet.........................................................Sprigged
Daguerreotype Dress
The 'Library' Dress (plum/red with 'figure-eight' design)