Oh yeah, I have a blog…
Once again I forgot to keep blogging about my sewing projects and left you hanging there, dear reader, wondering how the rest of the Evening Dress went and what else…
Once again I forgot to keep blogging about my sewing projects and left you hanging there, dear reader, wondering how the rest of the Evening Dress went and what else…
Obviously there must be at least one entirely frivolous thing made at least once a year, right? This is it. I've embarked on making the VikiSews Ornella Dress out of…
PatternReview has an annual Sewing Bee contest that attracts some amazing, creative, technically proficient sewists... and this year I foolhardily decided to enter! I figured I would have some fun…
I'm not even sure I'm ready to write this blog post, but I want to get a placeholder here and maybe I'll come back a little later and write again.…
This is a sad story, but it is not at its final ending. I did an incredible job of inserting the invisible zipper into the side seam of the wool…
I honestly wondered if I was going to leave this dress in the naughty corner forever. I had been totally stumped by the way the upper bodice and the skirt…
I took a little hiatus from the tweed dress project because I was getting stressed out by the sleeves and all the other unknowns. But now that COVID-19 has descended…
No, we’re fucking not. And if I ask again, I’m gonna pull this car over... I am running low on patience. Actually, I didn’t do much work on the dress…
Yeah I did. What do dresses need? POCKETS. What does this dress have? LINED, PIPED POCKETS. I’m going to leave this photo LARGE because POCKETS deserve close-ups. They are basted…
I started this evening’s sewing a little past 7:30, having had a friend over for wine & chats. She amusingly compared my sewing efforts to an agile project management approach,…