Ideas-to-Creation: make a little pencil sketch and then create! Worked on a landscaping gig, then a beach cover, and now, altering some old jeans to make a tulip-shaped jeanskirt. Done! Very happy with results. The plan- take old black worn jeans and turn into jeanskirt. Read a few blogs, vaguely remember doing this ages ago,…

So I thougth I’d take sequential photos of my latest sewing project: a beach cover for my sis! Here is my sister. Isn’t she cute? So we talked, and decided to make a beach cover that’s like one she has that is made of terry cloth, but will dry faster. I bought the fabric (last…

Credit to Tudor Tailor– a great book you should buy, that may be a little advanced sewing-wise, but very interesting historical research on Essex wills & effigies. About the “plain townswoman”: This figure comes from a painting showing people under attack in Paris in 1572. It offers a rare glimpse of a citizen in incomplete…

So I have a week to make a lower-middle class woman’s Tudor costume. I spend the weekend reading about it out of town, on MOnday I do real paid work (girl has to eat!) and then, Tuesday go and buy the fabric and start cutting it out. I’m a piece-by-piece worker, mostly finish the bodice,…

Note, I wanted it to look like this: Well, done toa degree- the wicker boxes were for the old paint job, which looked like this: So I just need to add some accents & stuff. Going to use an old vintagey wallpaper behind la toilette (or so that’s the plan, if I have enough energy…