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 […]
Dressmakers in history : Elizabeth Keckley
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; […]