So, as there was no more dark brown thread in the house, I must find another way of spending the last few hours of being awake today!

Namely, starting on the stuff I meant to do tomorrow so's I can continue working on today's project then. Anyone confused?

For tomorrow, I'd meant to do something I've been intending to do for years but always ( Read more... )

Now that the preparations are done, the sewing can begin! This will take ages as I do all of my sewing by hand. The reason isn't that I want to be über-authentic (though I guess I could claim that to make it sound cooler ;)) but simply that I cannot handle a sewing machine to save my life. In order to spare myself and my surroundings the noise, ( Read more... )

CfL weekend has begun!

CfL has been created in honour of and based on ideas by lady_roisin, writer, artist and costume designer, who lost her battle against cancer early this fall. Today would have been her 30th birthday, marking the start of a three-day creative effort to raise money and awareness for anti-cancer research and charities in the hope that ( Read more... )

Now that I know how much fabric I am going to need, all I have to do is find fabric ( Read more... )

So, how do I get into these costume-making things anyway ( Read more... )