Category: projects

Anyone need a bridesmaid? read more about my Lord of the Rings dress project

Don’t fall over… she sews! read more about my Lord of the Rings dress project

Let’s just say — hypothetically — that if one were making a new lightweight coat from the retro 1940s Butterick pattern out of cotton velvet and lined with china silk, but being very naughty and not blogging it because one was tired and just needed to crank it out so one would have a coat to wear this winter, would one want to interline it (for shaping purposes, not warmth)? And (again, hypothetically) if so, with what?

Sometimes, when you’re just too tired to face the idea of pattern drafting… read more about my Lord of the Rings dress project

Since I’m not actually doing much sewing… read more about my Lord of the Rings dress project