Inspirational Stitching: A Guatemalan Huipil
My neighbor has a very lovely collection of fiber arts from Central America. I’ve shared a few of her molas here before, and she recently asked me to work on another…
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Project Success, Project Failure
It wasn’t something that I expected to find on my sewing table. A tiny bunny, complete with little felt lace-up boots, a gingham shirt and trousers? It’s not what I…
European Inspiration: Ireland and the English Countryside
I promised you some photos from our trip that we recently took early this fall, and whew… there are so many photos. About 2,000 actually, but I won’t make you look…
Mixing Eras: Edwardian Dress Meets 1930s Slip
A client recently emailed me to ask me about a dress that she had. She wanted to wear it for her wedding, but the petticoat needed to have fabric added…
Needlecraft, August 1918
There’s something I really love about the pale pink color of this August 1918 Needlecraft magazine. It popped out at me and I had to swoop it up. MagazineArt.org has…