Making a Victorian Velvet Coat || Come To A Fashion Museum With Me || February 2022 video diary

*** Sign up for free sewing tutorials and a weekly love letter at https://foundationsrevealed.com/free-level/ *** This month, watch me flail around trying to come up with a decent pattern for this Victorian velvet coat... ...and then realise that there's no better way to figure this out than to go to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in person to look at it up close and personal. Come to the museum with me! *** Book featured: *** Lucy Johnston, "Nineteenth Century Fashion In Detail" (V&A Publications, 2006) *** Online resources about the coat: *** V&A Collections Record for the coat https://tinyurl.com/2seb9ss5 More about the coat and its context: https://tinyurl.com/46p4nvcr *** Music *** 'Windflower' by Franz Gordon 'Inconclusive Results' by Peter Sandberg 'This Delicate Place' by Silver Maple 'Life In A Pond' by Lama House 'Midnight Textures' by Silver Maple 'Blue Brook' by Clarence Reed 'Une Histoire D'Amour' by Franz Gordon 'Book of Maps' by Franz Gordon (All from EpidemicSound.com) Edited by Sophie Black at @triskellepictures https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1jlA-QrKm5TixZz5rq9YlQ You can also follow me and see my own sewing on Instagram: http://instagram.com/cathy.hay Your letters and cards are welcome at Mr Worth's old place. 7 Rue de la Paix Paris 75002 France If you're in the UK, I also have an address here: 1 Northumberland Avenue Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5BW United Kingdom Please don't send parcels - the fees to have them imported/forwarded