So many of you have followed me throughout the years – thank you! – and noticed when I started talking about Bavarian (Germany) and Austrian dirndls. It was just over two years ago. You can watch a Facebook Live I did in February 2018 when my excitement blossomed. It’s so thrilling to have discovered in Read More...
Category: Spreading the Joy
Sewing Subscription Box from The Sewciety
Now that’s an interesting idea! Back in September a call went out in a pattern testing group I’m in on Facebook. It was for a subscription sewing box full of goodies like fabric, a pattern and notions. Sure! I’ll try that out. Full disclosure: the gals at The Sewciety picked me, among several others, to Read More...
The BUB – Butt Ugly Brigade
In the last year or so conversations have come up regarding bullying and unkindness happening – more often than before – in our small community. My post on perfectionism touched on how striving for the (elusive) perfect costume project can blind us in applying our own rules of historical accuracy to everyone else’s creative work. Read More...
Did you hear the (18th Century) news?
New collaboration with American Duchess Can I tell you how EXCITED I am to share with you new sewing skills, techniques, and online classes for the *18th century*! Over the years many of my students and followers – perhaps you too – have mentioned you want to break out of the Victorian and Regency eras and start creating Read More...
30 Days of Sharing Historical Costuming
Happy Happy New Year!! May it bring many blessings and new challenges in your creative projects. As a way to get our creative imaginations flowing, I’ve made a list of concepts relating to historical fashion and sewing to prompt the sharing of ideas we can use to spur on our projects for this new year. Yay! 🙂 Read More...
Victorian Corset Class Seat Giveaway April 2014
We are approaching 10,000 fans on our Facebook page and we want to celebrate YOU! In honor of this great milestone, we want to give away a valuable seat in our next online Victorian Corset Class! 🙂 Congratulations to Julia Allison who won the spot in class!!! You can read all about this popular online class Read More...
Costume College 2014 Membership Giveaway
We’re really excited around here for our current giveaway!! Hope you are too because I want to give a special recipient a Costume College 2014 membership (up to $175 value) Yeah.. for real! I want to give someone who otherwise may not be able to afford it the chance to mingle with 400 of the Read More...