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Let’s talk about sewing challenges through the years

05/02/2018

Me Made May, Kids Clothes week, Sew Weekly, Skirt Week, Spring Top Week, the Ready To Wear Fast, or my own Sew & Tell Saturday I used to host here on the blog…. I’ve done them all and have been doing so off and on since soon after I started blogging in 2010. And have […]

Filed Under: My patterns, Sew and Tell Saturday, Sewing for myself, sewing history

Dressmakers in history : Elizabeth Keckley

03/06/2016

  After reading Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker: A Novel I wanted to learn more about the subject of the novel, Elizabeth Keckley, former slave turned successful dressmaker in Saint Louis who purchased her own freedom; friend and confidante as well as dressmaker to Mrs. Lincoln; grieving mother and widow; author of a controversial and popular memoir; […]

Filed Under: sewing history, Vintage suitcase



I'm Justine! Welcome to my sewing blog! Here you'll find lots of handmade clothing for myself and other lucky folks! I'm a native Los Angeleno who moved to a small farm outside of LA with my family.

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