Cloth of Stars

Another commission finished, yay!  Another bliaut, for the same client as the blue and magenta one , and the viking coat . click to em...

Back in **2013** I posted about  a dress I was making  with fabric I'd gotten that year at Gulf Wars -  an amethyst-colored rayon-si...

I'm back at it, and slowly but steadily cranking out the last two sets of commission pieces before I get on with work for this fall'...

It started with a pile of black linen embroidered in white cotton, and a pile of red linen.  I over-dyed the black to make the embroidery re...

Russet-red silk twill from the fabric district in Dallas, TX Black linen Calontir trim Technically, I guess the fourth part would...

Pics from the weekend's event are forthcoming; for now I have just a couple of recent things to share, and in no particular order: F...

*Nothing* I could do could make this color come out right in pictures, so, I'm posting these now (because the dress is DONE!), and I...

Remember the bad pictures of the bliaut ? And  the original plan , which called for a teal gown for underneath it? Yes, that is the W...

Wanna see some really crappy photographs of a really cool dress?   My camera takes really good pictures.  In a mirror, though, in a ba...

The neckline on the bliaut is done! I still have to finish the last two inside seams that aren't finished, and them hem the bottom, an...

Progress!  sleeves have been lengthened with a long, diamond-shaped gore in the long seam under the sleeve (they were too short before...

Because, as you know, I need more blue dresses.  I only have like five.  Because my heraldic colors are red and black, LOL.  *shrug*  I love...