By popular request, this is a post about how to prepare and host a fun group meal using one of the many combination tabletop grill and hotpot appliances that are available. Mine is literally called Food Party and it never fails to delight. Friday Food Party has become a pandemic …
Recently a client requested a special quilt to honor their partner’s father, and shipped me two large boxes of gorgeous silk neckties. After some research, I decided to make this project my first foray into millefiore paper pieced, hand sewn quilting. I’ll periodically update this blog with progress news and …
So my mother is obsessed with Godzilla. Like really obsessed. I began this quilt some years back and it went very quickly until I got stuck at the “hand cut, baste and embroider hundreds of tiny yellow highlights on Godzilla” part. Fortunately I have since figured out a far more …
A long running project which will eventually include a robe, kokoshnik, overbust corset, skirt, and….? WHO KNOWS?!?!I had a highly idiosyncratic cream and gold silk jacquard robe I made for a first year draping assignment and couldn’t figure out what to do with it. Slowly the look came together. First, …
A look that will make many think immediately of My Fair Lady, but which I intend as an homage to Camille Clifford and other tightlacing Edwardian beauties. First, the concept art. The idea has evolved since this and will eventually include a smocked black velvet leg o’mutton coat. I machine …
Process blog for a look that will ultimately include a tricorn hat, cropped jacket, demibust corset, skirt, and spats, all with highly customized personal embellishments and techniques. Shall we begin? At FIT, while enrolled in the Leather Apparel program, we were gifted several hides. I received a large teal snakeskin-stamped …
