Patterns for Adorable and Distinctive Toys
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pattern pieces for Madeleine's head and ear in four different sizes. Madeleine's pattern is set enough that it's time to start trying out different sizes for her. Consequently, I took a clean set of the pattern pieces to the local Staples yesterday an ...
Here's Folkwear's logo I was in college when I came across my first Folkwear pattern. If I remember correctly, I found it in a fabric shop in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Square these days has a lot of the same chain stores that ...
Getting ready for my next toy idea Shakesbear's new outfit was a trial run for an idea I have been thinking about for a while - patterns for historically costumed teddy bears. I envision Elizabethan bears, Regency English bears, 18th century Versaille ...