Monthly Archive: March 2011

Sewing with Vintage Patterns: McCall’s 9629

McCall 6929

The show we’re working on right now is William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. We’re setting it loosely in 1968-72, and we’re making a few costume items rather than buying. Really, you can buy so much for the late 60′s/early 70′s that it’s silly to make your own unless you have specific things you …

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Discovering Your Own Comical Failures

In the last six months or so, I’ve noticed that all the clothes I love wearing are knit, but I’ve never really sewn with knits.