by kelerr
This past Wednesday was World Theater Day. I actually didn’t know that until the actual day, but I happened to be reflecting on instagram about costume design. I had posted a picture from The Little Mermaid and wrote some brief thoughts on the subject. I was in kind of a mood so I started playing with some fabric samples for next year’s show, laying them out and looking at them together and I just felt so happy and out of […]
by kelerr
Back when I first started sewing, I thought there were sewing machines, thread, fabric, pins and scissors. Little did I know I had hardly even dipped my toe into the vast world of sewing equipment. And now that I know about these things, my sewing world is completely and permanently altered. There’s no going back! So today I present my sewing essentials list, other than the obvious. It’s not an insanely long list of items, but I use these things […]
by kelerr
I was certain that finishing The Little Mermaid would mean that I would start sewing for myself like a fiend again. However, as we reach the middle of the month, I find myself with very little sewjo (sewing mojo, for those who are new to that term). Truth be told, I should have anticipated a slight burnout period, since I’ve been sewing nearly nonstop for the last five months or so. This loss of sewjo doesn’t mean that I haven’t […]
by kelerr
The Little Mermaid, Jr. has come and gone, and I am going to share my thoughts and pictures of the costumes with my readers, but I still need time to decompress the experience, which was exhilarating and completely exhausting and wonderful. You can look forward to that post hopefully sometime next week. However, when one musical closes it’s doors, another one comes into take it’s place. Last weekend, we announced our 2020 musical: Frozen, Jr! Of course, everyone involved is […]
Categories: Costumes, Out and About, Theater
by kelerr
Hi, my name is Kelly and I’m a fabric-holic. At the time of this writing, I have spent money on fabric exactly two hours ago, and I have two fabric club subscription boxes on their way to me. I think about fabric multiple times a day. I search for it on the internet and mentally decided what I could make with it. I dream of having an unlimited budget so that my stash can grow and grow and grow and […]
by kelerr
Today is my birthday! And I had a whole blog post planned about the little cocktail party I had with a few close friends this past weekend… and then in the midst of enjoying the moment of the party I took exactly zero photos. I haven’t quite gotten into the whole “I need to make sure I get this for the blog” thing yet. And so the plan changed just a bit. Actually I lied… I do have two photos […]
by kelerr
No one is as shocked as I am at how much I managed to make for myself over this past month. I have not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE makes to show you. Now, in all honestly, the first make I’m going to show you was started a while ago (so long ago that I can’t remember when exactly), and this month I polished it off and added the sleeves and did the hems. It really […]
by kelerr
It’s an all sewing-centric week on the blog! My original post for today was going to be about my makes for February (I shockingly have several). However, some nasty weather thwarted my ability to get photos of everything last week and so I’ll save that post for this Friday. Now that The Little Mermaid, Jr. is over, it’s time to get back to sewing for me! I have missed making my own clothes so very much and have found myself […]
by kelerr
For a while there, I wasn’t sure this post would exist this month. At the beginning of February, I was completely consumed by the costuming demands of The Little Mermaid. I just simply wasn’t reading. This wasn’t for lack of trying. I opened books, but when they didn’t hold my interest right off the bat I quickly gave up. I had a lot to do and not a ton of time to do it in, so I couldn’t waste that […]
Categories: Reading
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