The straight shoe last, side. Over the last year or two I've been looking randomly, on and off, and not very hard, for a straight...

Weeeellll, experiment number one turned out two mediocre motifs; the silk ovale thread is too big for the tiny motifs, so the results are c...

Over the last week or so the spencer's neckline was recut to a lower, rounded shape. Here is where we started, with a very square neckl...

Last I wrote about this project, I'd just fit the toile. Since then the silk has been dyed lilac, and now is the time to cut out the ga...

The lilacs are in full bloom, and the sleeveless spencer and petticoat silk are lilac-colored! The silk is true lilac color, although ...

Here debuts the new bottom-of-the-petticoat. The last stitches went into the goldworked swags last evening, and I sighed a long sigh. That ...

A teaser: pattens' progress Short post here. How can I tell the story of her patterns better than our Sabine? Go and read " Ho...

Sleeveless spencer toile view from the front So you thought I killed the sleeveless, convertible spencer project, did you? April Fools ...