Bias-print plaid circle skirt

Twirling in the snow in my blue and grey bias-printed plaid skirt

In October 2022 I popped into Marshall’s Fabric in Edmonton while up there for a conference. While there, I picked up some bias-print plaid low-stretch knitwear fabric, which is similar to the plaid printed fabric I made a long skirt with a while back.

I have been wanting more long skirts for cooler weather, and since I love the existing one so much for winter over thermal leggings, I decided to buy 3 meters to do the same with this one.

I took the fabric, along with my pattern to the Maker Space to use their big tables (much nicer than using my living room floor!) and cut it out.  I also used their serger for the side and back seams, and to edge the hem.

Edwardian-inspired teal capelet

Hooded mantle or Capelet

When planning the Historical Sew Monthly challenges for 2022 I mentioned wanting to do an Edwardian-inspired capelet, inspired by Bernadette Banner’s Edwardian Mantle.

However, I didn’t want to just do a mantle; I wanted a garment with a hood. I had some teal satin suiting from my former teacher’s destash, as well as some mostly coordinating velour from her as well, and thought these would make an excellent start on this garment (I also have a different idea in mind with some black coat-weight wool and burgundy satin lining.)

1908 Sears catalogue

Cover of the 1908 Sears catalogue

I’m thinking about Edwardian walking skirts, and decided to look not just at online sources, but remembered I had an 1908 Sears catalogue on my bookshelf to reference.

Opening page of the 1908 Sears catalogue

This is going to be  a bit of a photo dump, just to be able to give some context to each of these images – since I won’t be going into it the same way in my post (when I eventually DO make the skirt…)