I recently attended a workshop through the Bay Area Costumers Guild with Artist/Author Candace Kling.
The class was really awesome (I want to put ruffled trim on every thing now!) and My mom paid my fee for my birthday !!!
http://www.candacekling.com/ These Are samples I made of the Techniques:
I still have to finish two of them (The pinned on strips of purple/blue silk)
In the background you can see my Still-not-quite-fully-unpacked studio.
The only downside was I kinda hurt my neck from all of the looking down I did. I need to retrain myself to hold my hand sewing up higher. Having vertigo for the last three days has not been fun, thankfully it's finally going away!