It’s done.  It’s beautiful.  I’m proud.  It’s shipped.

Ha HA!  I see light at the end of the tunnel!  It wants buttons and buttonholes, and to turn up the hem.  Then I shall lovingly place her into a box, tape…

With my client’s 17th c. jacket toile back, unpicked, and the pattern altered, I cut into the lovely burgundy wool, and began putting the final piece together, starting with the gussets. My…

Ah, how lovely it is to have a finished, fitting toile. My client is afraid the toile won’t fit her, but as it’s in the mail today, we will wait a couple…

With my dress form “batted” and corseted to my client’s measurements, I started working on her pattern.  I drafted this pattern with help from a little scribble I made in my journal…