The circle skirt tutorial is the most popular post I have ever published, and it seems it won’t be falling off the podium any time soon. It’s also the only post about circle skirts I have on my blog. So, I decided to write a new tutorial, featuring this 3/4 circle skirt I recently made for myself. It’s a fusion between two skirts: This one with scalloped pleats and a skirt I’ve featured in this tutorial. The denim skirt is rigid, so I wanted to make this skirt more like the one with scalloped pleats. And that’s where the circle…
I have quite a lot of sewing and pattern books, and the Pattern Magic books by Tomoko Nakamichi are obviously among my favorites. Especially the three of them…
If you’re passionate about historical garments, you’ve likely already come across pictures of the incredible costumes by Walking Through History. The duo behind this project is Angela Mombers and her husband, Jasper de Hoog, from the Netherlands. Angela, with her expertise in product development and pattern cutting, crafts astonishingly detailed reproductions of historical garments that the two of them wear in various re-enactment events. Angela and Jasper also build sets and scenes, organize medieval banquets, give presentations about the costumes, and portray historical figures at events and in television series. Personally, I’ve been following Walking Through History on social media…
As anticipated, I indeed couldn’t resist leafing through the second Pattern Magic book after being so inspired by the first one. It yielded more ideas, and as a…
I started my blog back in 2018, and my very first posts were about Pattern Magic. These books were my gateway to Japanese patternmaking techniques. So, when I got a request to do a tutorial about Pattern Magic patterns, it was a no-brainer. This time, I decided to explore a few techniques I hadn’t tried before. Pattern Magic books give you all the measurements and steps to follow to create the designs present in the book, so if you want to test before venturing into your own experiments, that’s a good option. But when it comes to this post, all…