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 …
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.
Several of the costumes from our plot for Comedy of Errors relied on Simplicity 5359. We had originally planned on using a separate bellydancing pattern for one of these outfits, but time and the reality of our fabric dictated that using 5359 was the way to go. What follows is my review of the pattern, …
As previously discussed, our production of Comedy of Errors is set on the Silk Road, which required a lot research into traditional clothing from a variety of countries and ethnicities. I cannot tell you what an enormous help Folkwear patterns was to us. They are practically the only pattern makers online that make detailed, interesting …