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WIP: “The Sugar Witch” Costuming

February 7, 2019
by Patricia with 2 Comments FashionTheaterWIP Wednesday

The Bean family homestead - setting for "The Sugar Witch" "The Sugar Witch" by Nathan Sanders, the second show of the season for The Suffield Players, opens tonight. It's a Southern gothic drama, set in the Florida swamps and focusing on the Bean fami ...

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Anti-Fashion Friday: Costume Distressing

January 25, 2019
by Patricia with One Comment FashionTheater

Tea, cola, balsamic vinegar - tastes like costume distressing to me I have one character in the show I'm costuming next month ("The Sugar Witch" at The Suffield Players) whose costume needs to look really ratty, so last week I met up with a friend for ...

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WIP: “Ghost of a Chance” costuming

October 10, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment FashionTheaterWIP Wednesday

Buck the deer stands guard over the "Ghost of a Chance" set My first costuming gig of the 2018/2019 community theater season opens tomorrow. The show is "Ghost of a Chance" by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. The show was written in the mid-1990s and we ...

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Fashion Friday: Guo Pei

September 14, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment Fashion

The Ming Vase gown from Guo Pei's Fall/Winter 2010 collection. I first saw Chinese couturier Guo Pei's work when my favorite fashion bloggers, Tom and Lorenzo, wrote a post about her 2010 collection. That link is unfortunately no longer working, but t ...

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Fashion Friday: Haute Couture

September 7, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment FashionInspirations

This is from the Guardian in February of 2016, but a costumer friend of mine just shared it with me. Here's your hit of gorgeous French haute couture for the day. It's the Dominique Sirop Collection at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia. Follow ...

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WIP: Pandas and Costumes

September 5, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment DesignFashionKnittingWIP Wednesday

My creative week in a nutshell - three tiny pandas and some possible costuming pieces for my hippie psychic Since last week I have made three of this year's writing buddies (except for their embroidery finishing) and spent a lot of time and a little m ...

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WIP: Socks and Some Costuming

August 22, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment FashionKnittingWIP Wednesday

First finished sock from "Tiny Waves" socks. So here is finished sock number 1 of the "trip to Canada for two hours" socks. It's been a busy couple of weeks and the sock is the only crafty project I've gotten any work done on. I finished off (save ...

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Fashion Friday – Stomachers and Jane Austin

July 20, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment Fashion

Portrait of Madame de Pompadour by Francois Boucher, 1759 ". . . if she does but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher, or knit a pair of garters for her grandmother . . . " That's Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse talking about Jane Fairfax. Garters ...

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I Blame Gilbert and Sullivan OR Why I Costume Theater

July 9, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment DesignFashionOrigin StoriesSewing

Me in the second production of "Pirates" that I both appeared in and helped to costume My first major foray into costuming for community theater was for a production of "The Pirates of Penzance" with the Sudbury Savoyards in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Ev ...

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Fashion Friday: Pluderhosen

July 6, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment FashionSewing

Pluderhosen and doublets worn by Eric, Nils and Svante Sture in 1567. Displayed in Upsala Cathedral. I had decided that pluderhosen were the MC Hammer pants of mid-16th century Germany - apparently fashionable in their time, but no one can tell you wh ...

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Patricia knits, sews, designs toys, writes, costumes community theater productions and sometimes hangs around with William Shakespeare.

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