Vika's Vexatious Vestments

You may recall, about six months ago, I completed a rather large banner undertaking ; or, I thought I had, anyways.  There were details I wi...

No Pants Zone Although having been a lifelong jeans-wearer (indeed, I went through a pretty long anti-dress phase in my youth), I had n...

The original vision (well, a simpler version thereof). V&A, acc. no. T.112-1972 I had an idea for a small, contained, comparatively...

Orts are the little bits of thread you snip off of a seam or a project that are too short to do anything with.  There. You learned somethi...

Limited number of these. My usual slow ("measured", yes.) pace of class creation has been rendered even more sluggish on this...

Presented without comment. Some months previous, I had committed to teach at a  schola  way down I-95--they were looking for embroidery ...

Pouches (with tassels!), Manesse Codex, early 14thc. Having completed all the construction portions of the purse, what remained was det...