I have no idea where this came from. But I will do it anyway, because I am lemming, hear me squeak.

1. Do you like blue cheese?
UGH, no. Even when I could eat cheese, I hated blue cheese. Nasty, moldy stuff.

2. Have you ever smoked?Yes, actually, during my misspent youth and as a young adult, about a pack a day; menthol, mostly, although when I ( Read more... )

Sometimes I sew things. Sometimes I don't hate them. Sometimes I might even post a photo, provided that it doesn't make me look too fat ( Read more... )

Here is a link to a very well-done video on dressing a lady in 1872 clothing created for an exhibition at the Bowers Museum out here in SoCal. I even learned a thing or two!

http://www.indigomultimedia.com/portfolio/art-of-dressing

Halp! Oh, cursed handwork ahead ( Read more... )

I know that a lot of you maintain separate blogs, and a lot of you are on Blogspot. Here's a really fun sounding sew-along that even I am considering. Okay, done considering, and have too many unfinished things to start another, but if I was current on my projects, I would definitely join up!


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Have come to realize that I liked Gertie better before she dyed her hair pink. The color is fine, but it seems to have done something sort of twee and annoying to her personality.

Still a heck of a seamstress, though...

So I've been stitching away on my big fat bustle dress. Bodice went together perfectly, wow, just like I remember it. Now it's time for sleeves ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to sew something. Something big. And it's going to require new underpinnings, or, rather, a new underpinning.

I sure hope this stuff is like riding a bike.

(Which does not apply to me, by the way...)

One of the blogs I read has this charming little bit on modern looks for Disney Princesses, which I thought was really clever. Enjoy.http://star-spangledheart.blogspot.ca/2012/05/guest-post-

Does anyone have a copy of the Butterick teens skirt - number 4092? And if you did have one, would you be willing to scan the illustration on the cover? It's out of print and I haven't been able to find a picture of it anywhere on the Googlenets.

I would be much obliged to you for such a thing.