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Flower Child - This is the pattern I am using for the little smocked dress that has given me so much trouble. It is the Flower Child design: I may or may not use a contrasting collar. At this point it depends on whether I have anything suitable in the fabric repository. This design is in this issue of Australian Smocking and Embroidery, No. 86:  This is the ... - 2012/05/03

Details on Colorblocked Dress - Gail left a comment on yesterday's post about the roomy white pants. She passed on the pants but loved the jacket. Me, too. While trying to find more photos of that jacket, I stumbled upon more images on this stunner from Carolina Herrera SS 2012 RTW that I talked about yesterday. A bit of sleuthing led to the fact that the fabric is black an... - 2012/05/01

Fashion DO WEAR and DON'T DARE WEAR - No one has accused me yet of being a fashion maven, but I still like to look at the new designer offerings. Sometimes there are things I really like. And sometimes the things I really like would actually work in a normal life for a somewhat normal person, like me. So here goes. As a person who sews, seeing new details, fabric mixes, unusual seamin... - 2012/04/30

At Last - I'm back. Been a while, hasn't it? Busy today washing fabrics (8 pieces!) for little dresses for little girls....several of them hang around here...... Found a cute little dress in Australian Smocking and Embroidery, so I picked a freshly laundered fabric, pressed it, matched up three shades of DMC for the smocking portion with assistance from the ... - 2012/04/28

Nytt lägre pris pÃ¥ mina mönster - Jag har ändrat mina priser pÃ¥ mönster. De blir inte högre som man kan tro utan lägre  =D Jag tar samma priser som gäller pÃ¥ webben dvs. 9 US dollar som blir 63 SEK kr.  För den intresserade finns mönstren i mönsterfliken ovan - 2012/04/14

Cadorette CPW - Michel Cadorette, of St Hyacinthe, son of Maxime Cadoret and Elisabeth Sevigny, born 1853 in Ste Rosalie, died 1929 in St Hyacinthe, married Celina Simard in St Hyacinthe in 1874. He had a shop on Rue des Cascades near the Yamaska river. Two of his sons, Cleophas and Philias, became wheelmakers after their father. The Cadorette family of St. Hyaci... - 2012/04/11