The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

I find it hard to keep it simple. I may be the very last to discover this fact, but it's true! :) Since I can't yet bear to pull...

So I'm happily stitching away at my camicia sleeve and feeling good that I *finally* have the first pass of the pattern done on all the ...

Having realized that it will be a very long time before the pieces of my camicia are fully embroidered I have decided to take a new approach...

I think it's better...but still not quite right. Maybe only 1 thread in the blue silk...

I've been madly working on many fronts, one of which being feast preparations for our local SCA Barony. We finally finished that project...

As you may have noticed, the IRCC challenges seem to send me off into an overly ambitious frenzy in which I will attempt nearly anything if ...

It is possible that I am getting faster at this, which would be quite a relief since I am looking at so much more on the partlet. Speaking o...

I've finished the three drawn thread bands which break my sleeve in four half-width panels. Well, I mean that I have finished the bands ...

I have to say that this stuff takes an incredible amount of time. Possibly the worst part of it is that the earlier steps kinda fool you int...

And while the counter ticks off the moments until the official start, I thought I'd share a bit of my thoughts so far as I work on the &...

Am I being bad? Hmm...I'm really not sure. I have the materials for my "Peasants and Pioneers" project, but not the inclinat...

I'm keeping a more detailed record of the progress of my Camicia in the "Stitch by stitch" page but I couldn't resist shar...

Stitching the lace onto the neckline...

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