2015: Sewing Goals and Slowing Down

2014 had a lot of things: There was sewing and wedding dress making and other dress making and wedding planning and Amtrak … More

Also Not a Halloween Costume: I Made a Cape, and I Wear It.

This is Vogue 8776, a cape! Let’s get the most important thing out of the way first here: If … More

This post is a long (long) time coming. But we’re at the half-year mark in our marriage and so I … More

I was probably watching too much Scandal or something back in the late summer/early fall, because I had it in … More

Doesn’t this woman look classy. Try as I might, though, no dress is going to flatten my chest and cause … More

I’ve been in tedium town all morning since I got out of bed at mid-day, pinning and ironing and sewing … More

I was, perhaps, inappropriately enthusiastic about making a dress out of some wool/silk blend I’d picked up at Fabric Mart. … More

I was pretty grump after making my first Colette Myrtle, and I really wasn’t planning on a second one. But … More

This Papercut Patterns dress has been in my brain for the better part of a year. When I really gave … More

All right, so the Colette Myrtle was the second pattern I bought after a bout of irrational affection for … More