makes me mine

Or as Lord Percy would say, "Can it be true, a nugget of purest Green?"! I had a fabulous time yesterday with a teaspoon of bic...

Yes, well, it didn't quite go to plan.  My fabrics are still, resolutely, mauve... and the burnt bits look even more burnt than ever.  L...

It has been crazy busy lately, and I just have not been sewing... but I have been thinking about the corset - mostly thinking that I will j...

Well, I've had the lurgy!  Woke up Boxing Day with itchy ears and it all went downhill from there... good thing about the enforced rest...

I have decided on a name for the corset for the Selene costume, thanks to Mr Van Gogh (though it has already been nicknamed Norah!), and ha...

The alterations went really well, I was done within an hour, and throughout the day I have been stitching on the binding.  I also added a la...

I finished the second half of the corset last night, bar sewing the binding on; my fingers said no!  But was very pleased with how quickly i...

I organised the sewing table and rethreaded the machine with real excitement this morning and then was thrown headfirst back into the intric...

handstitching through coutil is hard, hard work.  Even with a crewel sharp it took some time and my fingers are numb!  But it's done; I ...

When the boyf goes away I tend not to watch any of the TV we watch together and we can have a big catch up sesh once he's back; and as t...

because as I sit here, high on the buzz of far too little sleep since Sunday (thanks to time zones, the selfish elbows next to me on the fli...

So I sat down last night to start the corset properly; sewing in the hoop side of the busk and then continuing to add panels round to the ba...

According to Wikipedia: Coutil (or Coutille ) is woven cloth created specifically for making corsets [1] . It is woven tightly to inhibit...

Moving to a house in the country is one thing, moving to a tiny two bedroom cottage with your boyfriend, daughter, doberman, cat, guinea pig...