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Halloween Dress FAIL
Well I’m not Super Woman and I sure as heck am not Wonder Woman (amazing movie BTW). I just have to say this dress has yet to leave my sewing studio due to…
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Royally Scottish
This year was a busy year for Renaissance costume requests and alterations. One of my favorite makes from all of this was this beautiful purple satin medieval gown. My friend Karen came to…
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Kate Pattern Matching – Dresses
So I have be scrounging up patterns for you lovely readers to try and uncover more RepliKate patterns for you to make your own one of a kind RepliKate. These dresses are just…
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Disney Bound Princesses
Back in May, my husbands colleague asked him if I could custom make new princess dresses for his twin girls. After much deliberation the girls decided that they wanted to have Ariel’s blue…
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Renaissance Skirt Pattern
I am so excited to share with you my first ever drafted pattern! (Note: It’s not my first but it is the first one that I have committed to paper.) This has been…
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Steel vs Plastic Boning
When constructing costumes I find that it is regularly requested that I insert light weight boning to the bodice. The boning is necessary as it gives the bodice that structure to give it…
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Chatting about Patterns
Sewing is not as scary as it seems. We all started out sewing something for the first time and for me that was pillows. That’s literally all my mom would let me sew…
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January Project
Hello my long lost blog readers! I can’t believe that January and February have both flown buy so quickly.There has been a lot going on in my personal life lately and I’m working…
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2017 is Upon US
2016 is quickly drawing to a close and my oh my it has been a crazy busy year for me. I have not been as through as I had hoped in keeping up…
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Spider Dress
I have the most adorable niece. Not only is she incredibly pretty but she is also smart and talented in so many different ways. One thing that her and I currently share is…