Quoth Og Mandino

"When others cease their struggle, then mine will begin, and my harvest will be full."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

My apocalypse hat!

So as has been mentioned elsewhere (repeatedly), Nebula weekend coincides with some  prediction of global doom.  But the good news is that I am prepared! Behold, my apocalypse hat!

(Actually, its the hat that goes with my Nebula dress, but it is awesome enough in its own right to merit its own name.)

The base was [...]

Top. Men.

So I had lunch yesterday with Kimmi from Scissorfiend and she is so totally awesome I bet you wish you were there sharing our spinach salad and tricolor slice. It is very comforting to surrender oneself into the hands of experts, especially when it comes to milinery. I had this quote from Family Guy [...]

Weekend update: plying the gimp

OK, so not many pictures this week, sorry. But my camera utterly failed at getting closeup shots of the layered trims I’ve been working on, so … oh well. Anyway, that’s the big news for this weekend … I’ve been sewing on trim. Yards and yards of trim. (I bought a whole bolt of [...]

Bodice Follow-Up

So after last night’s post, I went back to Truly Victorian and poked around, hoping to get inspiration as to how I wanted to handle the bodice in my new, post-blue-taffeta reality. See, for the top I was intending to make this:

I was going to recut the sleeves (bell sleeves? No thank you) [...]

Skirt (construction) is finished!

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I had a very trying weekend. First of all, my sewing machine started acting up. I need to open it all up and clean it, maybe that will help. But even more intensely annoying was the discovery that I cannot get any more blue taffeta, at least not the particular shade & brand I’ve [...]