Under the Gables

For other ladies across a considerable age span, I made tote bags with this pattern from Purlbee, which is perfect. I like that the tote is...

Happy to be posting again and hope I can do more as we come into the new year. After my daughter's wedding, I had to quickly get into ge...

Evening dress, Chanel, 2011 If I could, I would support the haute couture, speaking of it here in its most narrow definition as the "cr...

Toots Brawne and her sister, Fanny, the fiance of the great English poet John Keats. Bright Star is a film no one who loves sewing could no...

Thanks to a hiatus in work, I was able to spend last week doing some sewing with my sewing machine. I find that I can knit no matter how tir...

A woman embroidering in India From "Rahmin," a short story by Rumer Godden: In Calcutta, where I lived, the chiken-wallahs worked...

Why Anna Karenina Vivian Leigh as Anna Karenina in the 1947 film, which was co-written by the French playwright Jean Anouilh On Sunday I fin...

According to the British newspaper the Guardian, there is a home sewing revival in Britain with an accompanying sharp rise in sales of sewi...

I made this dress for another sweet niece who just turned 8 years old. Her name is Sam, and she is as smart as a whip. The fabric is a cotto...

I made this dress for my lovely niece Maris for her 11th birthday. It's black and white with grey. The rick-rack edging helped the look ...

Over the weekend I very happily watched two movies that touch on sewing: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Broderies (or Sequin...

Here is a small drawstring bag I made for a little friend of mine. This was my first post-Christmas sewing effort. I did it from a tutorial ...

According to the Home Sewing Association, the number of sewing hobbyists in the USA is up 17 percent from the year 2000 and now stands at 35...

Heather at A Place of Quiet Rest posted this quote on Tuesday: "It is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics when women of high...