Sewing ⁽⁶⁾

As you make your way through the forest, past the witch's hovel and siren's cove, you suddenly find yourself in a strange cave with glowing stalactites and stalagmites. You hear clicks and strange gutteral whines—something lurks within, and it doesn't want you to get close...

A word to the wise: remember to check that the scale of your print-at-home pattern is correct BEFORE cutting out your fabric... I bought this really cool, literally one of a kind, hand-dyed fabric at a sewing convention and bought the Helena Wrap Dress pattern…

Brainstorming This started the same way all the best costumes are generated: with a pun. Queen Mattress—Monarch of the Night, Ruler of REM, Sovereign of Siestas! I watch a lot of historical costubers on YouTube, and so got it in my head to make a…

This Christmas has been a busy one! I wanted to make something for my partner, and asked what he might want (there was no point in trying to make it a surprise if I was going to need to take measurements and do fittings.) With…

For Christmas this year, my partner and I are hosting his family at our new place. To avoid the stress of each person having to get an individual gift for every other person, his family does a Yankee Swap (not to be confused with White…

For this shirt, I was first inspired by a portrait of Elizabeth I that I came across in the chapter on blackwork in The Royal School of Needlework's "Book of Embroidery." In the portrait, she has gorgeous sleeves covered in floral blackwork embroidery. I loved…