I recently took a class at the Boston Vintage Factory where I made a kimono robe.


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I had the first session of the new sewing class I'm taking at The Boston Vintage Factory this Tuesday, and it went well. This class is about making a kimono robe out of silk satin, and practicing the skills of working with difficult, unforgiving fabrics, setting in sleeves, and making French seams. I've not done much of any of those, and I'm ( Read more... )

Today I wore the pencil skirt I made in the Pin-up Pencil Skirt class I took at the Boston Vintage Factory.


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At last, at last, I have come to a point where I currently have no pressing obligations. And at this point of momentary rest, I thought I'd go over the status of things going on in my life ( Read more... )

I have been mostly absent from this blog for the last week, which I hate doing, but I was so busy getting ready for this past weekend that I had no time. This past weekend was our trip to New York City to put on our production of Work-Life Balance, my original superhero ten-minute play ( Read more... )

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So due to my being a bit heavier than I had been, I've been relying on a few pairs of jeans again and again. I don't wear jeans as often as I used to because of the need for professional dress, and if things go my way my new exercise schedule will have me slim down a bit, so I am really loath to just replace them, but it means those three or so ( Read more... )

Yesterday I attended the fascinator workshop I signed up to take at the Boston Vintage Factory!

I had a lot of fun, and found Kristen to be knowledgeable and very engaging to learn from. She went into some of the history of the style, as well as the techniques and materials. I feel like I learned a lot about the craft of it, and I really enjoyed ( Read more... )

As you can see, I have almost finished the tunic for my Link Halloween costume!


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I’ve decided that I’m going to be Link from Legend of Zelda for Halloween this year. It was Jared’s suggestion, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to make something that would be interesting but not too hard.

Because it was basically just a tunic, I decided to mostly wing this design. I found some pictures of a couple of girls doing a ( Read more... )