The Revolution

We made a movie...a big one!  It is about 30 minutes long, with 10 minutes of special features.  You can see them at the bottom of my costumes post.

As our end-of-the-year project this year, I wrote and created this movie about life during the Revolutionary War.  Some of my friends came over and we acted it out.  We didn't really use the script, but just made things up as we went along.

When I make costumes, I start with random stuff we find at Goodwill, or cloth I dig out of my mom's sewing cabinet.  She got a lot of cloth from her grandma and doesn't let me use some of it.  She was really stingy about this red cloth...

 I designed and made all of the costumes by myself  (except the bonnet).  I really like making costumes for history!  When I decide to work on a project, I make a big mess!  But it's a lot of fun.

 I learned how to use the sewing machine last year.  Mom has a Singer Simple, and it's really easy to use.  I like the straight stitch and zigzag stitch the best.  I needed a contrast facing for the jackets, so I cut pieces of cloth and sewed them on to some of my Grandma's old work jackets.  It was easier than making the jackets from scratch in only two days.

I finished up the costumes with buttons.  It's the little things that really make a good costume!  Mom made me sew all the buttons on this time.  She said that if I needed thirty buttons, I'd better start sewing.  That wasn't very nice...

See the complete film here

See the special features, including interviews, bloopers, and pictures here