The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

I finally finished all the stiching and my skirt pieces are together. As you can see, I still need to figure out the shape of the train (and...

Last year after I bought the stunningly beautiful blue silk which I have been afraid to cut I bought a printed linen in a similar pattern to...

I scampered off to the store today to get some more supplies for my golden chain girdle, more acorns and jump rings, but discovered that the...

I added the final flourishes to the dragon-leafy things that stick out at the sides of my fan and managed some passable leaf shapes on the l...

Or, rather;  Il mio velo è finito! I am saving the final 'as worn' photos for the unveiling of our finished projects ('Unveili...

I know that I want to make up a dress from the terrifying, beautiful, blue silk I bought (but never used) for IRCC2. I've been fretting ...

I'm a natural fiber girl, by preference, but I'll make exceptions for a synthetic fabric that really gives the feel of what I'm ...

'Real Life' intruded and has eaten up the vast majority of my weekend thus far but I did manage to get in some work on the fan handl...

The bad news is that acanthus leaves are, apparently, very hard for me to sculpt. I keep applying some paperclay and working it into somethi...

Still loving the paper clay! Bit by bit... It's coming together!

...Ooooo! that's better! The plastic wood seems to be providing good framing and structure but it's completely lacking in suitabil...

After roughing in the carving for the handle I cut a groove across the top plate of my handle base and inserted a craft wood oval to provide...

OK, half size, single thread, I think I've got it!