A year or so ago, acquired a Passap E6000 knitting machine. It is pretty great, but the documentation can be impenetrable. The machine itself does all of these cool things, but you need to page through books that were arranged by lunatics in order to make sense of anything. I find myself constantly wishing that […]
In case you looked at my last post, featuring the print that I designed and had custom printed, and wondered what on earth anyone would do with such a print, here’s the answer. A menswear-style tailored jacket. The pattern I used was Burdastyle 1/2010 119. I re-drafted the back piece to eliminate the center back […]
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This skirt is totally how I am feeling this fall. I may never take it off. The prints are linen, I think, and the texture is a lightweight cotton. I like the way they blend together. I drafted the pattern myself, and lined it in silk twill.
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The back bodice on the dress that I’m draping.
A week after the superstorm, hundreds of thousands of people with no power, fallen trees everywhere, and now, SNOW. Seriously, what’s next for the northeastern United States? Plague of frogs?
One look from the spring 2013 collections that has captured my imagination is the full-skirted grey dress. I love the feeling of lots of fabric swirling around my legs as I walk. And I have some neon green 4-ply silk and some grey dye to configure the inputs for this dress! All images from style.com
Rolling in Cloth 