Did Santa bring you any sewing/garb goodies?

[Kate XXXXXX]

A totally bonkers hair clip/fascinator thing of pheasant feathers and 'jewels'

This...    And this...

For my birthday a couple of weeks earlier I got these two:

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[Tammy]

Santa brought me this: http://www.singerco.com/products/1365/14cg754-profinish

[CenturiesSewing]

I foresee bustles in my future.

[gem]

Hmm... *I* foresee the pink gown from page 42 in your future! 

[Lady Isabella]

Yes!
From the Hubby...of course I picked them....
A Compedndium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603, Elizabethan Commomplaces for Writes, Actors and Re-enactors
By: Maggie Secara
Elizabeth's London, Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
By: Liza Picard
The Elizabethan Renaisance, The Life of the Society
By: A.L. Rowse. (A used book from the NY Public Library)



And from my Grandma Laura....
Embroidery Scissors
Havel's #53025
How cool are these.

[isabelladangelo]

Turns out, Santa might not have brought me anything garb related but my Aunt Marlyn did!   For Christmas, she got me
The Kent state Museum book!  It is fabulous.   I was so completely enthralled with it, everyone chuckled at me...until I showed Mom the 1820s Raspberry silk gown in the book.  Now she wants that one to wear to my next Tea Party!

[amy]

Oh Fabulous.  I graduated from Kent state and modeled for a couple of the fashion students who had their novice work shown there when it opened!   I didn't know there was a book!   I spent hours in those galleries in the first years.  Waaay cool!

[LadyStitch]

Santa in the form of my DH bought me a pair of new pinking shears. They the kind that are for people with arthritus.  No I don't have it, but with all the sewing and cutting I do he was worried about me getting carple tunnel.  Also he fell in love with the regular ones with the springs he got me when I was pregant and I thinkhe wanted the pinking to use himself 

Then my MIL got me an Amazon gift card. I used it to get the 2nd season of Dr Who.  That way I can watch "The Girl in the Fireplace" and drool over the outfits.  Not to mention make the PP a new outfit from them.  Then got David Tennets 'Hammlet'. And I got 'Fast Fit'. It is a book to help you correct fitting issues just by looking at someone's body, and then tell you what to do with the garment or pattern to fix it.
My birthday is coming up and she said she would give me another gift card. I'm trying to decide if I want to use it to get a new sewing machine, or more sewing books.  decisions ...decisions....

[gem]

I have those pinking shears, too! I seldom actually pink anything, but when I did, my previous pair (heavy Ginghers) would actually give me *blisters.*  I had enough last fall making my paned sleeves.

Stitch, you should go for the new machine! With the amount of sewing you do,  you really deserve a great machine that can keep up with you.

[LadyStitch]

Considering she just gets us gift cards to Amazon, and the machine I want I have test drove at Joanns. I'm sorely tempted.  I have Viking950E. Nice embroidry machine, but I can't do any embroiry with it since all I do is sew normal on it, and it is a pain to switch back and forth. I jsut need a happy little work horse.

We will see what birthday brings.