• Tutorial: Lady Peggy

    April 4, 2014 - By 

    As promised, here’s a tutorial of how I made my navy and red Peggy dress from the Lady Skater pattern. I used thick knits for this but if you decide to use a woven fabric you can still apply the same general technique for the paneled skirt as long as…

  • Old men snoring

    March 31, 2014 - By 

    dress: self-made // shoes: Shelly’s London // headband: JCrew // belt: thrifted // tights: F21 One of my recent goals has been to try out some vintage patterns. I found this one on Etsy and pretty much dove in head first. The instructions were a bit confusing and the pieces…

  • Peggy

    March 30, 2014 - By 

    dress: self-made, pattern here // shoes: Chelsea Crew So a few weeks ago I was catching up on Mad Men and saw this dress. And then Julia Bobbin announced yet another Mad Men Challenge. Um, yes please! So then I had to figure out what pattern I wanted to use…

  • Lacy skater

    March 24, 2014 - By 

    dress: self-made, pattern here // belt: thrifted // boots: Boutique9 My Master’s thesis-y capstone paper thing is due in exactly eight days. Not scary at all. Actually, I’m nearly done. All the tough writing stuff is done, I just have to go through and fix some formatting, do some last-minute…

  • Elisadots

    March 19, 2014 - By 

    dress: self-made, pattern here, fabric here // shoes: Swedish Hasbeens // glasses: Bonlook // watch: Fossil We’ve all had our fair share of adventures in fitting. Sometimes patterns fit really great right out of the package and sometimes a lot of tweaking is involved. Some of us learn how to…