April 9 is a holiday for a select few.  It’s “International Agent Carter Day” to commemorate Agent Carter’s birthdate, and this is my favorite annual occasion to enjoy the best fashion of the 1940s.  Peggy Carter is a ...

This Easter is the first time I have sewn a garment for my husband to wear on the holiday instead of creating for myself! There is another ‘first’ here, however. I am diving into the world of designer patterns for men! As the title conv...

Refashions and upcycles are my favorite kind of sewing. They both feed my creativity and clean up our closet. This project in particular is probably the most formal of them all. It all started with a sharply tailored, cotton poplin, Brooks Brothers brand dress shirt from my husband’s closet. It had seen better days and needed to be retired with a torn sleeve and other signs ...

     This post’s weskit blouse is a two-timed celebration of ten years.  How?  The last time I made a weskit was a decade ago.  At the same time, the two weskit patterns are ten years apart in their origin.  This one is from 1940 while