This....is gonna be a long one. Way back in the summer of 2019 my mom and I took a long weekend to travel to LA. The main reason for our trip was to visit the Getty Center, but we stopped by the fashion district as well....and dropped some money. I ended up purchasing 8 yards [...]
Opus Bag of Doom
Wow. I disappeared there. Like, seriously. I don't even have an excuse this time--my internship ended in January (I actually managed to finish rehousing the 500+ pieces in the core collection by myself with FOUR DAYS TO SPARE [the other intern left early because she got a permanent position, so I was flying solo for [...]
Every day I’m bustle-in’
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. As things were opening up a tad (now closing again, thanks to Omicron and, more personally, the fact that my mom is now immunosuppressed due to chemotherapy) I got invited to some events, because apparently I have friends now. I met Hannah (@chai_and_parche on Instagram) over, well, Instagram, and it [...]
Tiny Human and the Sleeves of Doom
Ok. Where were we. March-ish? Right, well in the intervening time I have: finished all my classwork for my master's, done all of the research AND written up my dissertation, gotten a job (ok, internship, but paid), moved countries (again), and packed most of my reenactment kit into a box that I will see again [...]
Zen and the art of not messing up counted thread embroidery
The most common thing I hear when talking to people about my counted thread embroidery obsession is "I can't do that, there's too much counting and looking at charts". And they do have a point-- if you are a person who hates looking up from your work, finding your place in a chart, and looking down again, counted thread might drive you a bit mad. But, there are a number of tricks you can use to make the whole process easier.
I blame grad school
Once again I am back to confirm that yes, I am alive, and yes, I am still making progress on various projects. Slowly. I also wanted to announce that I am participating in the West Kingdom's Virtual Artisan Display for March Crown, so if you want overviews of some of my recent projects with everything, [...]
Nieblingingignigng
Hello yes I am mostly still alive (despite the best efforts of my treatment object for this semester, which we think has arsenic salts on it) and, actually, still making progress on my projects. It's just that I am once again working on things that are all super slow and therefore I have very little [...]
Underwears!
Apparently blog posts are like buses-- you wait months for one and then they all come along at once! Long ago, PBE (pre-blog era) I made an 1878 bodice and skirt set and wore it to a PEERS Sherlock Holmes ball. It looked like this: (This is one of ~3 pictures I have of this [...]
Recent Successes
I know, I know, I have been failing at blogging. But to be fair I changed countries, self-isolated for COVID, yelled at the medical centre until they refilled one of my essential medications, and had technical difficulties with literally every electronic thing I own. Oh and started the second year of my MPhil. Nbd. For [...]
Regency skirts
As you probably know if you also follow me on Instagram or Facebook, I am dabbling in Regency for the first time. It's an adventure, and very different from many of the time periods I am used to. For one, there is a lot of pop culture imaging associated with Regency fashion, thanks to the [...]
Not Another Costuming Blog 