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Becoming Amity
Hello, fellow cosplay enthusiasts and Owl House fans! Today, I’m excited to share with you our latest Halloween costume project: Amity Blight from The Owl House. This build was an exciting journey into new costuming skills and a labor of love for my child, Tornado, who adores the show. The Costume Breakdown Lessons Learned This
I Reorganized All My Fabric (And Why You Might Want to Do the Same)
There comes a point in every sewist's life when the fabric stash becomes unmanageable. For me, that moment arrived amid what can only be described as a perfect storm of chaos—economic uncertainty, political turmoil, and the sobering realization that my child would soon be a high-schooler (cue existential crisis). When life feels completely out of
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Making Modern Partlets
Today I want to chat about a little project that solved a surprisingly annoying wardrobe problem. You know that classic librarian look with a collared shirt under a cozy sweater? I love it, but living in Texas means dealing with some unique layering challenges. Our “winter” lasts about three weeks, and even then, wearing multiple
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Changes
Soooo…. It’s been a while since I’ve seriously updated this blog. I feel like I’ve been present for several iterations of historical costuming online spaces. Obviously I’m doing the YouTube thing now, and back when blogs were The Thing I had this. And then before that, I had a LiveJournal (anyone remember Dress Diaries? God
St Birgitta Interlaced Stitch Tutorial
I published this tutorial over on the Ko-Fi because I said I’d put it up there, but I wanted to make sure I posted it here too, just to make sure it’s archived properly. Enjoy! For my supplies I am going to need some fabric, a needle, a bunch of colored embroidery thread, an embroidery
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Medieval Snow Day
It snowed yesterday! It rarely does this at all in Texas, and almost never this much. I had to take advantage of the situation and get some photos of me in all my wool outerwear.
Video: Making an Edwardian Skirt (and Bustle Pad!)
IN WHICH our intrepid recreatirix makes (yet another) Edwardian Walking Skirt! Welcome back to the land of sewing. I don’t know about you, but the thing I really needed for my witchy, Victoir-edwardian history bounding wardrobe is a basic walking skirt. And since I just happened to have some heavy-weight linen laying around…. Here we
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A Yuletide Scribal Interlude
IN WHICH our intrepid recreatrix takes a step back, mulls some cider, dresses up, and creates an achievement of arms for her partner as a solstice gift. It’s been a rough year. Enjoy this calm interlude and wonderful music.
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CAPE CULT: Making an American Duchess Cape
IN WHICH our intrepid recreatirix joins a cult! A cape cult. Okay, I’m making the American Duchess Cape, in keeping with my penchant for jumping on bandwagons 6-24 months after the trend has, uh, stopped trending. It was a fun and relatively easy make, for all that I’m not the size of a museum mannequin.
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