Littlehuggs thanks all of our customers for a great forth year of designing and constructing living history, from the Renaissance to the early 1900s.

My name is Karen and I had been sewing and had a love of making costumes for over 20 years when we first started our now thriving business by taking our three grand sons to a French and Indian War reenactment. The boys and I studied at the library and made all of our costumes. The children loved it so much they wanted to keep going. Next we went to a buckskinning rendezvous where they became very interested in learning more about history.

 Of course then we were off to Civil War reenactments, Renaissance fairs and more living history events. Other people wanted to come along, so we made their costumes too. Soon we did not know what to do with all the costumes, always wanting different ones (of course), hence our reenactment costume and clothing business began!

Littlehuggs now has over 150 costume, history books and movies in our own library. Littlehuggs makes mostly women's and children's re-enactment costumes, many from historic patterns, and recreations of the basic format of clothing design that we have made from paintings and photos of historic clothing.

 My passion is making redesigned costumes, the best way to describe it is to tell you that I use 3-4 existing vintage gowns, take them apart and then put them back together into one gown for stage and reenactment costumes.