The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

Clarence and I have been ill for days but I found myself with a little energy this afternoon as I lay in bed, my mind wandering, and I sudde...

My bug skirt got hustled off into near-oblivion in the great Ack!-Mom-and-Bob-are-coming-and-the-house-CANNOT-be-such-a-shambles! clean-up o...

So, I loved the bugs but I never did like the leafy stripes so stage one was to cut off the borders, remove the stripes in the body of the f...

My next step was to decide what type of pleats I wanted to use (I decided on unpressed box pleats) and then set in the zipper. Since I wante...

So, I've been meaning to write out my basic instructions for a drape-your-own pleated skirt for some time and today I decided to just go...

I got a sudden burst of sewing energy this evening so I worked on my new black, white, brown, blueish-charcoal-gray and pink skirt. First st...

And working on things utterly non-medieval! This weekend I've been working on two projects for my other life instead: A needlepoint pill...