Quoth Og Mandino

"Do all things with love."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

*Bonus* Midweek Costuming Update

A true test of how obsessed one is with any project is how early in the morning one is willing to get up to work on it. These days, I am getting up at 4 a.m. to get a few hours of work in on sewing before I have to go to work. Insanity? [...]

Crazy train

I hate to say this but I’m starting to get pretty sick of sewing. And when one is sick of sewing a Parisian trained skirt, one is clearly sick of life. But I am not so sick of life that I’m going to fail in my project blogging duties, because of all the duties [...]

“Basting & pleating, basting & pleating …”

… all weekend long I sang that song. Which isn’t so much a song, really, as just words I kept humming tunelessly to myself. Basting and pleating. Basting and pleating.

It wasn’t all basting and pleating though. The big news from this weekend is that I got the front three skirt panels done! Have [...]

The Redonkulous Purple Dress … Photos!

I knew that the splendiferous Ellen Datlow would come through for me … she always takes the best photos! Here they are from her Flickr gallery:

This is my favorite of all the shots. You can see the hand-stitching on the bodice hem & around the buttons. And the fan [...]

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