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September 5, 2021September 4, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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I Made a Peaky Blinders Newsboy Cap on an 1920s Sewing Machine

July 11, 2021July 18, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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I Sewed an 18th Century Silk Shirt

June 13, 2021June 7, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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I Bought an Antique Sewing Machine! | Making a Sewing Machine Cover

May 16, 2021May 11, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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Handsewing a Medieval Shirt and Braies

May 2, 2021April 20, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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I Started a Medieval Slytherin Costume in 2020

April 25, 2021April 15, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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Hello! Introducing Barrows & Wights

April 18, 2021April 19, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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Welcome to the New Site

March 11, 2021July 18, 2021 / barrowsandwights / Leave a comment

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Welcome to the new site for Barrows & Wights. Please bookmark this page and stay tuned for the premier of the Barrows & Wights YouTube channel and Instagram page.

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It's been quiet here on the account and the channel, but things are trucking along slowly behind the scenes. Grad school and working have taken up most of my hours, but there are a lot of things in progress that you may see soon.

A new video is live! Join me as I talk about drafting a button down shirt pattern from a shirt I own and sew this new shirt together. ⁠

Finally posting some finished object photos of an 18th century shirt that I handsewed out of some inherited Grandma stash of thin, white cotton. I wear this thing all the time. I still have a little bit of pulling at the shoulders, but I think I've figured out what's causing that. I'm also fairly certain that I'll be making another one of these in linen for a future project, so I've added notes to my diagram of the pieces for future reference.

I zoomed through the construction of this vest and didn't stop to take photos. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New video is live! I made a Peaky Blinders inspired newsboy cap on my Singer 128 from 1926. I had a lot of fun with editing this video, so go check it out. :D⁠

Starting a new vest for myself. I got this scrap of blue grey wool (42" x 1yd 25") off of an ebay listing and I'm 95% sure I can get all the pieces I need out of this. For reference, my garments generally fit between 40" and 44" at the chest.