makes me mine

Thanks to  Sew Curvy  who I follow on FB, I found this video  (from Indigo Multimedia) this morning and was enthralled.  I have spent th...

Post Halloween/Victorian Costume is a very quiet affair... I hardly know what to do with myself (she says smiling broadly!)  The beginning...

Done, finished, complete... No more stitching to be done!  There's probably lots I could say, but it was a late night a...

The nearer to completion that my costume gets, the more I wonder about my choice of fabrics.  My initial thoughts on fabric for this projec...

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 have occasionally been accused of being scatty (who me!) and this week a couple of people have commented on the amount of things that I ha...

Yuck, have I been ill this week!  The first cold of the season, thanks to the good folk in my office.  Unexpectedly, and in hindsight how si...

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...

"To do is to be." ~ Kant "Do Be Do Be Do." ~ Sinatra I am, I sure as heck have been doing, and who can resist a g...