Last weekend was the GBACG Petit Trianon event at the fabulous Bellevue Club in Oakland. It was the perfect venue for the perfect event. Due to some recent health issues, I decided to opt for my gown that is easiest to wear–the chemise a la reine. However, it needed something to spiffy it up and make it more appropriate for… (more…)
Sometime towards the end of last year, my cousin got engaged and asked my mother and I to make her wedding dress. With comparatively little drama, we ended up with this:
Just a friendly reminder that if you’d like to see updates on my craft projects as they are in progress, check out my craft blog, Loose Threads. If you are looking for my book reviews, please visit In Search of a Text. If you are looking for all of my old dress diaries, I have started to add posts here… (more…)
For most of my sewing career, I’ve been a speeder. I always wanted to get through projects quickly, and would forgo certain steps that I considered unnecessary. As I’ve become more experienced, I’ve realized that some of those steps aren’t quite as unnecessary as I first thought. About a year ago, I helped a friend of mine–a sewing novice–make a… (more…)
Hems generally give me fits, especially on curved edges. Most of the time, I just sort of place some tucks in the hem strategically as I sew the hem by hand, but inevitably, I end up with a wonky hem. Most of the time, it doesn’t bother me too terribly much. Then a few months ago, a colleague asked me… (more…)
I had a wonderful time at the GBACG Anne of Green Gables Tea. Thanks to some last minute sewing and a borrowed shirtwaist, I actually had something to wear. That said, I’ve added a page for the outfit. I apologize that there aren’t a whole lot of details about construction and such, but between how little time I had to… (more…)
The Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild held their annual open house today in Albany. It was lovely, as always. I was asked to wear my Paris Promenade dress for the fashion show, which I was kind of disappointed about. I feel like I have many other dresses that have with so much more wow-factor. But the dress turned out to… (more…)
With all of the issues I’ve been having with my ftp client and design software, I decided that it was finally time to make things easier on myself and simply use wordpress as my front page. It may take me a while to reorganize and get all the previous content linked, but I think it will be worth it in… (more…)
A few other costumes I made for various Ren Faires.
A Doublet for my brother.