Cloth of Stars

 I know, I haven’t posted anything since I got back from Gulf Wars. I’ve been busy as heck, I just haven’t had much to say here.  At the mom...

1490s Florentine Italian for Candlemas 2024 In the beginning, I honestly had no thoughts about what to wear to Candlemas in February - I fig...

 So, I was at coronation yesterday, and a friend of mine busts out this huge box full of felt bycockets she’d made, and gives one to another...

  After completing the wine-colored linen Venetian dress , I set about making the same changes to my black silk Florentine dress :    Once...

So, here's something a bit out of the ordinary:  I made myself a Regency-era (Empire) gown.  I had six yards of sage green crushed Dupio...

So I had this huge silk quilt.  The front was made from dozens of pieces cut from the edge banding on silk saris from India.  The b...

This year, for Candlemas, I'm making a version of "The Hapsburg Wedding Gown", made for Mary of Austria, for her wedding to Lo...

In July I shared my first-ever period corset , which I made to go under, among other things, my brown Italian dress. Just before I comp...

Time out for a mundane project!  (Yes, the corset proceeds apace).  This, like the pincushion, was a quick project I'd been meaning to g...