The trek clothing marathon is finished!!! Four girls and one boy have two complete outfits each and another girl has two bonnets. So that's 10 bonnets, 10 shirts, 8 skirts, 8 aprons, 8 bloomers, 2 pairs of trousers with suspenders, 2 bandanas and one far from authentic straw cowboy hat...And we still have more than two weeks until trek...Yay me!
I kept losing pieces I had already worked on, so I decided to spend the last two days and just get it finished. Plus I suspected a mutiny if one more rug rat stepped on a pin :)
In all honest I totally cheated on most of it. I come from the keep it simple, school of thought and not the authentic, the pioneers didn't have elastic or Velcro or power.
So, I bought all the shirts at the second hand store and just took the collar off a few of them. I found all but two skirts there as well and altered each one. Lengthening the bottom or tightening the waist. The other two skirts I doctored a knit maxi skirt pattern only slightly and they worked great...I found most of the aprons and only really sewed 4 of them and all of the bloomers are just hemmed cotton pj bottoms, also found at the thrift store. I did sew every single bonnet, odd you can't seem to find those outside of Utah ;)
I didn't mind the work at all...just paying it forward. I have never forgotten all the skating carnival costumes and Moroni's Quest costumes and prior trek outfits sewn for our family, when I was still terrified of a sewing machine :) Plus I know what it feels like when small stuff is tipping point and this was a simple way I could help.
Bring on trek!
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