Cloth of Stars

 I love Sense & Sensibility - the book, as well as both the 1995 and 2008 adaptations.  Last post, I showed you the new dress I made whi...

After all the work I spent March and April doing on that blue Norse dress, I was ready for a Regency palate-cleanser to reset my brain.  In ...

My latest Regency creation:  This is a wrap-front dress made from LM’s (#129) Spencer pattern, to which I added rectangular skirt panels lik...

 I found this fashion plate on Pinterest today:  It linked back to a Flickr photo album labeled “1807”, but there was no other information a...

 I'm still alive, just haven't posted in a couple of weeks.  I'm in the middle of several projects right now that I'll be po...

Here is the silliest thing I've ever made: a pineapple reticule!  A few weeks ago I learned that pineapple reticules were a thing - at l...

After working my butt off on SCA projects since Thanksgiving, I needed a creative palate-cleanser project - and I was itching to do somethin...

Here’s something a bit weird: I made a Regency item for SCA use.  I remembered kind of late that I had promised a friend that I’d help him i...

SCA STUFF So, BAM (War of the Rams) was exciting and wonderful, as anticipated.  There were a million things to do and see and learn, lots o...

I haven't posted in several weeks, but believe me, I'm hard at work...doing...pretty much nothing, for the time being.  I've bee...

Behold:  a finished velveteen pelisse for winter wear!   Last fall I acquired a huge stack of velveteen Ikea curtain panels from my local ne...

 Over the weekend I went to my very first JASNA event: their annual Box Hill Picnic, in Buda, Texas. I have to admit, I was very apprehensiv...

I LOVE striped Regency dresses. I keep thinking about making one, but I had no fabric to use …but wait, I thought - don’t I have a lavender ...

Here's a little wooden jewelry box I just finished making, to house my Regency jewelry:  It started life as a little $9 blank box from M...

Mitts are neat.  After making the crocheted fingerless gloves last week, I decided I needed some longer, fabric ones.  You see them a lot in...