Hi everyone and welcome to the month of July!
Thanks for helping me out with the Contact Me Form… there is something definitely going on with it and I will ask for Sarah’s help hopefully tomorrow. I bet it’s an easy fix for her.
I’m trying to remember the questions you asked and all I can think of is Barbara’s… how do we keep our Hibiscus over the winter. My hubby cuts it back after it has finished blooming… and puts some mulch and leaves around the stems… we’ve been here for 24 years I think and it’s never failed to come up the following Summer.
Tomorrow I’m going to show Anne’s colorful pictures. She is SO talented! :o)
Okay… moving onto Felicity…
I had this brainy idea to make her a dainty cap… but I didn’t want to just do a pinner cap (they aren’t my favorite), so I looked online at ideas and then a book I have on Colonial wear for young girls and women. Embroidered eyelet was out because it didn’t come into fashion until the early 1900’s, if I remember correctly. However, in 1775 and later, the women and girls did use linen fabric and when decoration was needed, they used the Pulled Threads method.
I looked through all my vintage hankies searching for a white one, or at least the whitest one in the bunch…
I found ONE tiny half of a hankie that I had used the other half for something else. It was big enough to go across her head. It had the pulled threads and was a linen fabric. It just might work.
I gathered up the back, finished off the edges with a narrow piece of batiste binding and then attached a piece of pretty cotton lace to each side.
I don’t know why it looks better in person than it does in my pictures, but it looks flat in the pictures. It’s like I can’t show you how it looks 3D! It’s just meant to sit on her head… pretty much like a pinner cap does.
I folded the front edge back and let the sides stick out a little bit and then called my hubby in and asked him what he thought. He loved the dress and the color of it, but asked… “IS SHE A NURSE?”
AAARRRGGG! Are you kidding me? A nurse? I actually thought it was quite cute that way, but maybe not…
So, I stopped with the cap and moved onto a necklace… I had an glass beaded ivory one, a “sort of red” one, but it might be more raspberry…it changes colors in the different lighting. And then I had a white faceted one that’s on a wire and pretty much just for looks, but you can see that it’s the white one.
Here they are…
Well, let me know what you think of the cap and the necklace colors…
I’ll see you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
I hope Sarah will be able to figure out your problem with your blog site, Jeanne. Maybe she can also figure out why some of us are also having to re-enter our contact information and click the “save my name…” button every day, too, when we never had to before! (Ever since I got my new computer….and I think someone else said she had to, too.)
The drawn-thread hankie looks nice as a pinner cap; however, I’m wondering if the piece of lace in the back is a little too long, and is bringing the edges of the cap too far forward towards Felicity’s face? I would try pinning a tuck into the lace, and see if that helps. And, yes, folding the front edge back Does kind of make it look like a nurse’s cap!!
Now, on the necklaces, are there TWO different white ones? Because in some of your pictures, the beads look all the same size, and in some, it looks like there are some smaller beads between groups of larger beads. I tried enlarging the pictures, and yes, that’s what I’m seeing. There are 8 pictures showing the white beads; in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 8th pictures, the beads look all the same size; in the others, there appear to be smaller beads here and there. Am I hallucinating?!! 😂
Anyway, I like the white beads the best, if you are going to use a necklace, and of the two, I prefer the ones where they are all the same size, as they seem to match the white trim better. The red is okay, though, too.
Barbara, good to hear from you again. I’m glad the PT is working, and you have someone who is really knowledgeable working with you. Yes, I remember hooking the snapdragon blossoms onto my fingers, too, now that you mention it!! And my car is now waiting for the revised estimate to be approved. They originally said maybe July 2nd, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it took longer, at this point, esp. with a holiday coming up.
I get to go to the dentist in a few hours; painful tooth. I’m glad he had an opening. And my best friend is having her first cataract surgery, too. She’s fortunate she could wait so long (she’s almost 80); I had mine done quite a few years ago now.
Sorry to hear about your problem tooth. Hope it is an easy fix and you’ll feel better soon. So far I’ve managed to stay off the cataract train. So many I know have had it done ages ago. I never heard of any of them having problems until lately. A woman in the Chorale had the surgery on her second eye a few weeks ago and it was a disaster. They dropped the lens inside the eye but could not retrieve it until her eye healed. She could not wear a patch because it would close off the air to the eye so she got a pair of glasses and painted black nail polish over the one lense. She was like that for a few weeks until they could do the surgery to retrieve the lens. She handled it better than I would have and only missed one rehearsal because her surgery was on a Thursday. It was the only day the doctor did surgeries.
Oh, wow, I would Not have liked that! Good thing the lady had such a good attitude about the cataract mishap, and I’m glad there was a good resolution to it all!
I don’t like to comment when you ask for recommendations for something, Jeanne, and I don’t know what I really think! I love the side view of the pinner cap, but the front doesn’t look like a cap, just a piece of material laid over her head. I know you said it looks flat in the pictures, and yes, it does! And George is right about the turned up ends, as cute as they are, she DOES look like a nurse! I would go with the cap as you have it, if it is as cute as you say it is. Plus it is one of a kind that you wouldn’t get anywhere else, and that makes you stand out as a seamstress!
For the necklace, while the white one works, it just looks kind of blah to me. I love the red one, it just seems to perk up the whole outfit! Remember, Felicity does have a coral necklace, which I have for her, although she doesn’t really have many clothes to wear it with. I think most people who have Felicity or really any doll already have white pearl necklaces that tney could use, but not many have the coral one or that pretty red one. I would prefer that to the white one, but let’s see what the “experts” here have to say, and I’m not one of them!
Good luck at the dentist, Charlotte!
I can’t wait to see what Anne has in store for us tomorrow! She is SO talented!
Charlotte: the dentist, good wishes for an easy visit.
Happy JULY everyone. Stay cool and “fresh” everyone. We have 5 toasty days lined up here in Northern Virginia. Thankfully, we usually have a nice breeze going on
Jeanne, I like the hat. George is funny, …. ….. MEN are funny!
I used to wear a nurses hat and mine was the stiff starched one that folded and stuck up. It had to be bobby pinned on my hair. When I worked on patients in beds with over head equipment changing dressings etc, my hat would hit the bar and pull my hair. OWWW.
I still can not believe we were expected to wear our nurse hats. I do not think I ever washed the thing in all of those years!! I left hospital nursing after 5 years. In private practices, fortunately, nurse hats were sort of fazing out.
No this does not look like a nurse hat.
Hubbs and I are watching a show made in 2002! “Servants” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servants_(TV_series)) It is good, I think dated in the 1840’s… so a little late. On this show it shows the servant girls wearing these flattish kind of hats. Gosh, I need to do some more research. huh!! I do love the hankie headwear!
how about this style on Esty? https://www.etsy.com/listing/823558558/pinner-cap-georgian-pinner-cap-colonial haha I did a google search.
That image shows a kind of ruffly pinner kind of hat that looks pretty cute.
The three necklaces: I like all three. I can not pick a favorite…. well okay, the red is very pretty because it is my favorite color!
I am really looking forward to Anne’s photos. I know she is going to share her quilt and I am excited.
Today, I am staying home. Yesterday at the new house was exhausting, I just straightened out some of the switch plates the painters put on crooked and tooo tight! and looked around the house – what a dirty house! It also smells horrible! There is new carpet everywhere and it stinks. The whole house looks weird – very very bland but it is good of course. Ugh. The house is so so dirty!
Our cute adorable “indoors only” cornish rex Kitty Princess, has turned into a fully commited outside screened porch kitty. she is addicted…. perhaps because of the nice heat. This morning she ate her breakfast and then went right to the sliding door asking nicely to go out.
Colonial times are not my area, I like Edwardian or Regency styles. Saying that I really like the red beads best. I would like them smaller but I think they look more young lady. Pearls seem especially a string of pearls seem meant for an older girl and very high class.
For the headpiece, since I absolutely love the neckline ruffle on the dress I would like to see the same frayed edge gathered ruffle along the front edge and the back without the lace just stitched at the bottom. I think it would pull the “nurse flaps” back a little and the tiny front ruffle would frame her face a little. All white of course.
This dress is so pretty.
Have a great day all.
Oh, what a morning. I have a package out for delivery and it is my Jolli dolls. Of course, it will be a surprise as to when they arrive, but I should be on the lookout. You know, other person is still on his no doll trip. 🙂
Well, seeing Felicity’s cap, got me going. When the cap was the half hankie, I expected great results. But, I am not a fan of that type of lace across the back. I think it needs something else. Maybe some lighter weight vintage lace or even a full piece to make it more of a cap not just something sitting on top of Felicity’s head. I also think that it needs to ride further forward on the head. Did they actually pin those things to their hair? What holds it on in the wind? Clueless here. Or maybe this is worn underneath a big floppy straw hat to keep the hair from getting so dirty? No hot showers every morning back then. And then, as to the necklace, she looks like she is choking to me. Did they wear necklaces like that? I might like it if it were made from much smaller beads or maybe one special bead on a ribbon or chain? Or even a simple solid ribbon necklace. I didn’t know about her coral beads that Linda, mentioned. With the lovely collar, maybe she needs to ditch the necklace and wear a little bracelet instead? Okay, I know that Jeanne, will figure something out or already has, so looking forward to see how the presentation turns out. I should just go and take a shower and pipe down. I’m not trying to be mean, but to help Felicity look amazing.
And then, of all things, Ruby Red has a new doll coming out also named Felicity. If you can believe. And boy is she decked out for the fourth, even though there is no way that she will arrive before the holiday. Can’t figure that one out at all. If you see her you will get a laugh at the comparison with the lovely AG version. The highlights are r/w/b cowboy boots with stars, a one shoulder strap top, and short skirt, I think. It’s all meshed together to celebrate, I guess. But, the blond doll is adorable. Go figure. You’ve got to see the extravaganza.
Wasn’t George’s next operation supposed to be this week? I keep thinking of him and his lovely vegetable garden. We have had a few cherry tomatoes, and there is one Ace that looks promising. Other person is really keeping an eye on it. 🙂
Take care George and Jeanne.
I find the comparison of the two Felicities interesting, but much prefer Jeanne’s lovely outfit. 🙂
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Food luck with your dolls, Joy. Yes, I much prefer PC Felicity. I don’t care for RRFFs and really wish I had been able to get Liberty Joy at the time. Still, I’m glad I bypassed her or I wouldn’t have been able to have Anaelle.
Goood luck getting your dollies into the house, Joy.
I hope other person focuses on that tomato long enough for you to get them into the house!!
I did not think of a nurse’s cap, I immediately thought it looked a little like a Dutch girl cap which I always thought were so cute. I noticed that the red beads seem to match the darker color in the dress fabric so I would go with that necklace. I have a couple dolly necklaces with beads that color and they are very pretty.
I guess I’m pretty much of a traditionalist and liked the nurses’ caps. I didn’t have to wear one but my mother did and was very proud of it because the cap was specific to the nursing school she went to. She went to Jefferson in Philadelphia. I know she used to wash and starch her caps. But I do like that nurses no longer have to wear the white uniforms, especially pediatric nurses. Some of them have the cutest uniforms and I’m sure it’s nicer for the kids.
If Joy’s Jolli is about to arrive I guess mine is to. I couldn’t get a delivery date unless I downloaded the “shop” app to my phone and I found that irritating because I don’t use my phone for that sort of thing. Mostly since I can’t see things that well on my phone. It seems these days everyone wants to send your forms and things to fill out on your phone. I don’t like filling them out anyway much less on my phone. I’ve received so many things in Facebook lately about it being difficult for older people to do all that is expected of them on their phones. When I took the family to Shen-Yun I bought the tickets online but the confirmation/tickets for admittance had to be on my phone. Thankfully it’s a no-brainer for Sean and Dionne so they took over and got us all in since they were there with us. But if David and I were to want to do something ourselves that could be a real pain. Last summer when we went to Splashway they had a new rule that you had to sign a waiver before they would let you in. It had to be done on the phone. Once again I was thankful for Sean and Dionne being there. I’m not liking this at all. It messes with my feeling of independence.
Thanks, Jeanne, for the information on your Hibiscus. I didn’t realize you could even grow Hibiscus that far north. Can’t wait to see Anne’s pictures. I know whatever she offers will be amazing.
As to your Ruby Red doll arrival, when they are ready to send, RR will send you an email with tracking so there is no need to do the shop thing. If you want to know when the order will be sent out, just use the Chat feature on the main page. They respond within a day and will answer your questions. No idea why they even have that shop thing, but I guess there are those who use it. Not me though. 🙂
I did get a notice from them. Guess I’d better go back and see if there was another way to track it.
Good morning everyone
Jeanne, I know next to nothing about American colonial dress so can’t offer an opinion on the cap except I, too, can’t see how it would stay on the head without something to hold it, unless it was for indoor use only. As for the necklace, I prefer the red beads. If the colour is true it matches the colour in the dress very nicely. I agree with Dorothy L, I think pearls would be worn by older girls.
Thank you for the nice comments even before you see the photos! I’m not really that talented, we have show and tell at guild every meeting and there are some very talented people there. I do like showing what I have done though, when you put a lot of work into something it is nice to show more than the family. However, photos really don’t tell the full story. If you saw the quilts in person you would see the imperfections. I also try to use only what I already have, I only buy fabric now if it is really cheap, Spotlight had some very pretty fabric on clearance at $4 a metre [2.27USD] which I couldn’t pass up lol and I pick up a lot on the free table so while I try to pick colours that go together it wouldn’t always be my first choice if I were to go out and buy anything. Having said all that the top of the crossroads quilt is all scraps.
Good luck to USA today, on paper they should win but stranger things have happened in this World Cup! Now NZ are out I will be supporting England who won this morning.
Charlotte, I hope the dentist can fix your tooth. It cost me a lot 5 years ago to get my teeth fixed up with cleaning and fillings (dentistry isn’t covered by our NHS) and I decided it was cheaper and more manageable to save every payday for dental treatment. I go to the hygienist twice a year and a check up by the dentist every year.
Joy, I hope your delivery goes well and you manage to hide it from Other Person. Look forward to reading the next installment of dolly capers.
I have to go, I have another quilt calling me. It is nearly finished and I want to take it to show and tell at guild on Saturday.
Good luck USA
I think the new headpiece looks too pilgrim-like. I checked for online ideas and didn’t like them much. Consider pulling out all your favorite “Felicity by Jeanne” pictures and having a slide show. That should give us some inspiration. As for a necklace, you have a ruffle and embroidery. MAYBE a ribbon to match the ones on the sleeves, or maybe no distractions, or, since several people like the red necklace, provide it as an option. You could add it in a small purse, maybe with drawstrings.
I like the red necklace. I think it brings out the red in the dress. I don’t like the cap. It looks too much like a baby bonnet to me. I think a wide brim straw hat with a ribbon tie would go better with the dress.