A tiny obsessive perfectionist sewing her way through history
(Roughly equivalent to Love in the time of Cholera but with less death, steamboats, and letter-writing) (Yes I have not read that book in years, and yes, those are apparently the details my brain has retained) Hi everyone. It's been a while. There is a lot going on in the world. I've had a rough [...]
Hey guys! Everything is nuts! As a result I have not been writing here, although I do suddenly have more sewing time than I expected. As this continues to be stressful I likely won't be writing much here (blog posts take a fair amount of bandwidth) but good news is I have been making [...]
Ok we are backing up even further on the Designing for Heat wagon here because I realized I skipped a lot of what I consider to be the essential beginning steps last time! Here we go again. ~~Note that as always this is informed by my personal experiences, your mileage may vary~~ My goals: to [...]
So I am trying a new thing here. I see a lot of costumers online who have....for lack of a better term.....actual income? And they make the most gorgeous amazing things in silk and fine lace and I don't do that just because, well. I can't. I might not ever be able to do that [...]
Hopefully some of you remember the Avoiding Heatstroke Dress from a while back, which was intentionally designed and built to keep one (1) tiny human who is bad at homeostasis from developing heatstroke at events in the 95-105 ºF range. It was....moderately successful, I survived June Crown 2018 but Purgatorio 2019 killed me. It [...]
I'm in a weird sort of mood-- I didn't sleep well, and I'm stressed about school-- so we're doing something a little less optimistic than usual. Plus, if I write this now and I am ever low on project inspiration I can come back here and get some ideas! It looks like I am going [...]
I'd been having a hard couple days and really feeling like I hadn't made anything or progressed this year, so I'm trying to remind myself. Spanish 1520s dress! Sideless surcote (pictured with the fabulous Sarah of Mode Historique) Darrin's hood! (Unphotographed-- camicia for Queen Alyce) Some hose-- I need to redo these, they always feel [...]
Ok. It's been a while, both since I wrote anything generally and since I wrote about this. Hi! I survived my first semester at grad school Mk. II! I've been back in California for a week and a half or so now, and it has been nice to sleep as much as I want, dig [...]
Just wanted to insert a notice apologizing, I am still mostly alive I swear but likely won't be posting anything until after all of my assignments are due for the semester. I'm not sewing on much and I tried to write a post on TORM and just... couldn't make it happen. My 3000 word technical [...]
Drachenwald Crown Tourney has come and gone, actually more than a week ago? I did kind of massively overdo things that weekend and spent most of the week recovering. But! I went! I did finish my fitted gown in time, thank god, because it was chilly. Going up the spiral staircase to the dormitories in [...]
