Posts tagged sewing
'In Faerie Lands Forlorn'
"I am going to make everything around me beautiful; that will be my life." --Elsie de Wolfe
Adorable Civil War dress ornament, free pattern here.
1940s Style Swimsuit
Suit made by me; graciously modeled by Marie Antoinette.
More on the blog.
In other news…Ivory Print Civil War Dress, made by me, on the blog.
The Singer 160. Created to commemorate Singer’s 160th anniversary. Designed after its first machines, it offers the latest in technology and modern innovation.
(Source: singerco.com)
Sewing a men’s Civil War shirt for a client. I have never sewn men’s clothes before.
The woman who makes her own clothes has several advantages over the woman who must buy the style nearest to her requirements and then pay to have it altered, or who must pay the high cost of having a couturier design her wardrobe. Not only can she wear clothes which would be far beyond what she could afford to buy, but she has the added satisfaction of knowing that they are designed for her figure alone, not for a general category of women’s figures.
My family is so funnily paranoid and obsessive about straight pins. As a seamstress, seeing one or two on the floor normally doesn’t bother me. (It’s when you step on the entire pincushion that it hurts. I have experience there.) Unless they have the plastic heads, I can vacuum them up without a second thought. Family, however, is a different story. They are manic about picking them up from the floor (I keep telling them you’re not likely to step on one unless it’s bent and sticking up) and gleefully present them to me like lost treasure. To them, each one is precious. This is starting to sound like a spiritual allegory. That was not intentional.
My motto ;)
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