When I posted some pictures of my blue skirt on the We Sew Retro Facebook group, some commenters asked about the pattern...  I usually m...

Sometimes, there is really no reason to try and be original. It can be very nice to just make something which is very typical for an era in ...

And here is that skirt I promised in the previous post: It's a proper mermaid skirt!  It has been a loooong time since I tried thi...

And here's the skirt from yesterday's last picture: I made this to kind of get away from all the trouble with that 1930's dr...

Can you think of a more awkward pairing of words in a blog title?  If you have any inclination to dress the average bloke in a non-bifurcat...

I hate it when this happens. Yes, I know I'm showing you a ugly picture, taken with the aid of a cell phone picture and a dirty mirror b...

In the comments to yesterday's post, a couple of people asked for a picture of the pattern pieces of the skirt of my orange dress. I dec...

And here are the skirt and bolero I mentioned earlier! The bolero was just a quick fix, a tried-and-tested (and self-drafted) pattern m...

Well, thanks to the vagaries of Dutch winter weather (not cold at the moment but windy rainy and generally rather glum) it took me a while t...

This is another garment which had to wait till the weekend to get a photoshoot (now with more bookshelves! And granny's sewing machine...