The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

So my Clarence gave me a new iPad 3 for an anniversary present (our second) because, as he says, I needed a better camera for my blog. :) ...

I follow a lovely blog by Wilhelmina (http://wilhelminamarquart.blogspot.com/2010/10/tea-time-with-1870s.html) which is a marvelous source o...

Today I was looking at The Purple Files and I ran into another example of a sheer dark colored partlet and headscarf combination. I'v...

I have been looking at patterns and blogs, ect. to gather my ideas and gird my loins (as it were) for the big jump into patterning a more pe...

A peek at the printed linen for my 'test dress' (which, by the way, I am finally almost comfortable enough to call a sottana.)

Have you noticed that we are just not as chatty this year? I wonder if it is the heat. Or we have been struck with a collective case of co...

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