The Secret Dreamworld of a Jane Austen Fan

Happy Valentine’s Day everybody! I hope that your day has been a lovely one! Here the sun has been shining all day and it has felt so wonderfully nice to be outside! It felt like spring in the air, even though I know that spring is probably still some way off…
This past week that has [...]

Yes that is right, the answer to my little guessing-game is a bonnet.
I wanted to make another bonnet, but I didn’t have anything to make it out of, or so I thought… I searched through the house to see if I could find anything that could possibly work, and I did.

I found this old place [...]

…I felt I just had to make a new dress!
A few days before I had my idea of the blouse I made a little while back I had another idea. This time too I was lying in my bed, it was late and I was desperately trying to go to sleep.  But then I came [...]

One of the first steps in starting a new sewing project is finding the right fabric for it, and my upcoming Regency dress has just reached the stage where I have done that. I mentioned before (at least I think I did) that I had a dream about making a ball gown out of pink [...]

Now, this isn’t a Regency project, or indeed anything historical, but it’s something I am quite excited about so I wanted to share it here with you. My first ever attempt at designing an item of clothing all by myself (not counting a few badly made and ill fitting skirts and similar things I made [...]

Ir would appear that not all of my creativity is dead at least. Because I’ve just started another project! From the title you have probably already guessed what it is…
Yes, I’m going to try my hand not at parasol making, but at a parasol makeover. You see, yesterday I was for some reason [...]

As my dear sister came back home from London this morning, bringing the camera with her, so I am now able to post some pictures of my newest creation.
So, I made the chemise first. Worked on that for a couple of days and am absolutley thrilled with the way it turned out!

This is really a [...]

Have you ever found yourself doing something and afterwards realized that was actually rather strange? I am sure we all have. I did yesterday, after a long day away from home I decided to relax a little and do some reading. So I picked up the sewing instructions for the

Alright, so yesterday was a pretty slow day for me. Slow in the sense that I had absolutley no creativity or energy for doing anything really. Or I should say, for wanting to do anything.
In the evening however, I was going upstairs to look for something in my fabric stash, and I sort of got [...]

I had made an ‘experiment bonnet’ a long time ago. I wasn’t very happy about it though. I mean, sure, it was alright, but just between you and me, I think I looked a bit like a mushroom wearing it.
So I decided to take it apart and change it.
This is what it looked like at [...]