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You say “yard waste”, I say “free, eco-friendly corset boning”

Posted on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 9:24 pm Posted in Demos, Experiments | 4 Comments »

So I was out trimming the privet hedge the other day, like you do (she says, sounding perfectly British about the whole thing) when I stopped to think, “Gee, I wonder if I could bone a corset with some of these clippings?  I should give that a try…”  So I did.

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How to Reblock a Straw Hat

Posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 4:13 pm Posted in Demos | 6 Comments »

The world is full of straw hats. They are almost never the size and shape you’d like them to be. (That’s a known effect of the Law of Universal Irony, along with how the thread already in the needle is never a color that will work for your current purposes.) Fortunately, reblocking a straw hat is pretty gosh darned simple. Read the rest of this entry »

I Need Knickers, and I Need Them Now!

Posted on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 1:52 pm Posted in Demos | 1 Comment »

Sometimes, you need a knicker, or some other relatively non-denominational short, slightly poofy pantlet with a cuff at the bottom, and you don’t have time to make it from scratch. (Perhaps, for example, you have a cast of 37, and 9 or 11 of them are kids in Fagin’s gang and most of them are too short for proper long pants… Hey, it can happen!) Here’s the cheater’s method: Read the rest of this entry »

The World is my Fabric Store

Posted on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm Posted in Instructions | 2 Comments »

You can make a lovely skirt from a 90" table cloth.


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