makes me mine

of ruching takes far longer than I thought!  The Overskirt and Dinner Jacket need to be detailed and finished; looking through some other e...

It's done!  All bar the buttons that is... but it's done!  I have one Victorian Dinner Jacket!! I had a morning off today so de...

The irony of writing about planning my work, and my work having other ideas about that, is not lost on me!  Now instead I can write about t...

I'm probably 80% done, but I did not finish the jacket today.  It was an inauspicious start to the afternoon's sewing: the first da...

10am:  the front darts are sewn in.  What is immediately obvious is that the twill interlining gives the fabric a life of it's own, the...

So, 8.33am on a Sunday morning.  Can no longer "sleep" concertinaed around the dog and the boyf, plus I am having some very odd d...

It's left me in a bit of a panic... our Halloween party is now only 20 odd days away.  We have so much to sort for the party; I have th...

Its been a busy day, but in the middle of it all, I sat down for half an hour and Dolly "grew" a face. I was inspired by the ...

The Dinner Jacket instructions recommend a mock up; so a mock up I have made.  It's a quick and dirty piece of sewing so no photos of t...

So here it is, Truly Victorian pattern TV422: the 1880 Dinner Bodice, a truly nerve-wracking piece of clothing to both make and wear! I ...