The Dressmaker's Muse

Long time, no blog. I blame those crazy days of summer, which are anything but lazy around here. Summer is prime wedding season, and I do l...

You are staging Peter Pan or some other show featuring pirates. Captain Hook is a pirate, and everyone knows what he looks like.  But wh...

More often than not, I design and make period and theatrical costumes as well as wedding and formal wear. In a departure from this, I recen...

Yesterday I was called upon to create a last minute costume for a last minute understudy in a production of 42 nd Street. The actress n...

Take time to play. In a society teeming with entertainment options, this might sound like a strange thing to say. The entertainment j...

On stage and screen, actors transform into characters from another time and place. Take, for example, a show like Downton Abbey, or a movi...

This is a great project for beginning sewers. It requires only a small amount of fabric and is easy to fit. You can use new fabric or recy...

Are you tired of the Mass manufactured Christmas look, but not sure what else to do? Here are several ideas for making your own simple, th...

Since the Holidays are fast approaching, I thought I would suggest a few easy to make gift ideas that even beginning sewers can make well an...

If finishing the seams in your garments is not something you usually do you might ask why it is important. Here are my top 4 reasons for fin...