The painting "The Artist's Family" by Holbein in 1528 shows a toddler in a simple short sleaved hemd and sleaveless gown. This should be easy enough to duplicate for our 23 month old daughter, "T". I will use linen or a linen/cotton blend. The hemd will be white and the dress whatever period color I can find. I will probally do hook and eye closure on the bodice instead of spiral lacing.
For "M", our 6 year old daughter, I will make a campfrua overdress using the pattern from Reconstructing History #504 as a general guidline. I have some pieces of linen (deep red and oatmeal) in my stash that I hope will be large enough to use for her dress. The hemd will be from white linen and drafted from the Reconstructing History #505 pattern.. If I have time I would like to experiment with pleating and smocking the neckline in a honeycomb stitch.
Finally, "E" is our 8 year old son. He is not so keen on dressing up so I need to make something simple and not to weird looking for him. The plan is to make a plain white linen shirt, linen or wool T-Tunic in red (his favorite color) and flannel loose pants. I plan to follow the T-Tunic pattern from "Practical Worksheet for Tunic Construction" by Cynthia Virtue.
For all the kids I would like to make linen 3 piece coifs but not sure any but "M" will actually wear them. Cynthia Virtue also had great write up on Coif construction at "How to make a coif: 1 and 3 piece patterns".
So, that is my starting plan. I am sure it will evolve as time goes on.
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