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		<title>Steampunk on a Shoestring: the Countess</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/steampunk-on-a-shoestring-the-countess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m saving the best for last &#8211; I loved the way this costume turned out! It is, by far, the most wack-a-doodle set of design decisions I&#8217;ve ever made. I really wanted to do a rather prim dress for the Countess, what with how she&#8217;s rich and all. At the same time, there&#8217;s only so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steampunk on a Shoestring: Germaine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, for the next installment in the series, I&#8217;ll tackle the character of Germaine in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. (Wowza, did that sound pretensious&#8230;) The rough inspiration for the costume was, &#8220;How would Miss Piggy do Steampunk?&#8221; This one is slightly more complex than the Admirer, but still pretty easy to wrangle out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steampunk on a Shoestring: the Admirer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m doing Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Wheaton Drama right now &#8211; big funny Steve Martin craziness, right? It&#8217;s our studio show. Now, I figured the studio show was where we do something artistically risky, just to see how the audience responds and not care too much about how it sells. This should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Turn Out a Passable Rev War Uniform Jacket from Goodwill</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-turn-out-a-passable-rev-war-uniform-jacket-from-goodwill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-turn-out-a-passable-rev-war-uniform-jacket-from-goodwill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 04:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have I mentioned that my show has, by and large, come from Goodwill? Yes, indeed. One of the characters in 1776 is &#8220;a courier&#8221;. (No, really, that&#8217;s all they call him in the script.) He&#8217;s an army courier who brings messages in to the continental congress. I need him to look like he&#8217;s a) military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Colonial Britches at Goodwill</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-find-colonial-britches-at-goodwill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 04:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oddly enough, I needed 19 pair of Colonial britches to go with my 25 Colonial vests. (Because I had much better luck renting britches than vests, not because I let anyone go pantless.) This is very similar to the trick I used for the Oliver! knickers, but they need a slimmer fit and different length. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Colonial Waistcoats at Goodwill</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-find-colonial-waistcoats-at-goodwill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-find-colonial-waistcoats-at-goodwill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 02:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed 25 Colonial-looking vests for 1776. Because I wasn&#8217;t sure that I&#8217;d get round to making a coat for everyone, I wanted vests that weren&#8217;t faked out in the back, and I needed them to have structure and to be long enough to cover the obviously modern fly fronts on the britches I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You say &#8220;yard waste&#8221;, I say &#8220;free, eco-friendly corset boning&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/you-say-yard-waste-i-say-free-eco-friendly-corset-boning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/you-say-yard-waste-i-say-free-eco-friendly-corset-boning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, &#8220;Gee, I wonder if I could bone a corset with some of these clippings?  I should give that a try&#8230;&#8221;  So I did. Now, it&#8217;s worth noting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Reblock a Straw Hat</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/how-to-reblock-a-straw-hat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/how-to-reblock-a-straw-hat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of straw hats. They are almost never the size and shape you&#8217;d like them to be. (That&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Need Knickers, and I Need Them Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/i-need-knickers-and-i-need-them-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/i-need-knickers-and-i-need-them-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you need a knicker, or some other relatively non-denominational short, slightly poofy pantlet with a cuff at the bottom, and you don&#8217;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&#8217;s gang and most of them are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World is my Fabric Store</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/the-world-is-my-fabric-store/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/the-world-is-my-fabric-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So, what's an enterprising sempstress to do when she wants 
  enough brocade to make a full underskirt, but really doesn't actually want to 
  *pay* for enough brocade to make a full underskirt? Late night fabric store 
  heists, while terribly exci...]]></description>
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