My Sew Sew Life-Vintage Patterns, Martinis and Poodles

My Sew Sew Life-Vintage Patterns, Martinis and Poodles

Ah, to lounge around sipping a great cocktail (preferably one that I have designed), in a comfortable lounging skirt with Poodles by my side. It's great when I do it and I probably don't do it often enough.  Sophia and I in our matching outfits. That is the advantage of making it yourself. You can [...]

Lucienne Day-The Orange Lookbook

Lucienne Day-The Orange Lookbook

Apollo, (detail), late 1950s. Lucienne Day. Manufactured by Heal Fabrics. At the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C  Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III Collection of British Textiles. Courtesy the Textile Museum. I was thinking about Pantone's color of the year Tangerine Tango and decided I wanted to feature fabric designs by Lucienne Day using [...]

My Sew Sew Life-My Seamstress Heritage

My Sew Sew Life-My Seamstress Heritage

I published this post quite a while back, long before I was comfortable being in front of the camera. At that point in time, my blog was solely about art, design , sewing, kntting and poodles. The fitted blouse that I created from one of my mother's patterns has continued through the years to be [...]