I love this picture – I always have. These are sisters who pioneered a homestead in Nebraska. Maybe this reaches back to my own family’s homesteading roots, but I love this photo and this mud house they built for themselves. Here’s the subtle message in this photo […]
Read more →I remember in high school, and I was pretty much a royal smart ass most of the time, asking my professors just why in the world would I want to know what an x or y axis was or why the French had a revolution or what […]
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What I really mean here is at what point does your sewing reach a professional level. And although we sewists are most interested in answering that question, it does permeate through the art world. One dictum says that you must practice about 10,000 (that comes out to […]
Read more →In honor of #TBT, here’s a little story of how I went about discovering sewing, playing with techniques of sewing, learning techniques of sewing, finding my teacher of sewing and eventually getting totally, unmercifully and infinitely hooked on sewing. It started with Barbie, because my Barbie went […]
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Over on What To Wear, they have a hilarious blog – it’s so funny that I can’t resist a comment on each point: 7 Signs You Need To Clean Out Your Closet: Number 1: You have more shoes than contacts in our cell phone Their Suggestion: More […]
Read more →I ran across an interesting post about the comparison between home-sewn garments compared to commercially sewn garments and pre-industrial revolution garments. The upshot was that home-sewing is far more expensive. You know I agree with that blanket statement. It is FAR more expensive at first comparison to […]
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Sounds like a mystery novel about a new Latin sexy dance story!!! Whatever – it does roll off the tongue nicely. But this is a GREAT vid from the house of Dior show how to drape. I always think these things are worthwhile if for no other […]
Read more →Yeah – well that’s really not meant to tangle up your tongue but it looks like it! Triskadekaphobia is the fear of he number 13 and specifically refers to the fear of Friday the 13th. It came from a number of obscure sources (aside from Jason running […]
Read more →Just like anything that’s new, it’s a difficult at first. The thing you have to remember is that the hardest time you will have with a new technique or method will be the first time. Don’t get discouraged. It’s normal for it to be hard the first […]
Read more →If you’re a comedian or actor that’s understandable. But for the rest of us, that may seem a bit out of the ordinary and really not applicable. Not so fast there. Time and knowledge are probably the most valuable assets we posses. And it’s our ability to […]
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