The Monthly Draft is a new series dedicated to walking you through the process of sketching, drafting, fitting, and sewing clothes you love. Episode 1 tackles a fairly simple pencil skirt, with lots of help along the way!
Read MoreMeet My Sewing Space
This feels a bit less like a grand unveiling than it should - you saw part of my sewing space last week, after all! I guess that's why it finally felt like time to give my little corner a blog post of its very own.
Read MoreAnd So it Begins: My Handmade Wedding Dress
A new beginning: the introduction to Project Wedding Dress, a few thoughts, and my first vlog post as well!
Read MoreDrafting and Sewing Vintage Culottes
In which our blogger drafts and sews the first Vintage Pledge project, meets two dogs and a cat, and enjoys working with lovely fabric.
Read MoreFrom Full to Partial Band: A Tutorial
In which our blogger finally gets back to it, and creates a little tutorial for her favorite partial band bra.
Read MoreThe Blogger and the Vintage Sheets
Two parts retro and one part refashion - this week, I've turned a vintage sheet I found at a secondhand market into a cute sundress with a dip-dyed skirt.
Read More25 Years, and a Sundress for Winter
In Which our blogger falls into the next age bracket for surveys - and makes a birthday dress.
Read MoreNatural Dye Experiments: Turmeric Part 1
In which we don our mad-scientist outfits and a bright yellow experiment in natural dyeing ensues.
Read MoreGarter Belt: Testing, 1..2...
In Which our Blogger continues to make foundation garments, investigates the history and social connotations of those foundation garments, and this time employs a (plastic) model to help with the photography. Also - warm legs are had by all.
Read MoreLong Sleeved Staples for Wintery Days
I hesitate to call what generally happens to the weather in New Zealand in June, July, and August 'winter' because I hail from the Midwestern US and before that, from the snow belt in Ohio, but it does at least get chilly enough for sleeves.
So I've made sleeves.
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