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The Henrietta Maria in Mint

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One of the joys of prepping patterns is the excuse to make samples of every single view.  It’s something I can get a little carried away with: I’ve got no less than 5  new versions  of the Henrietta Maria to show you! It’s easy to get excited about making all the versions when I really love a pattern, and can find so many opportunities to wear it. It’s shown here in mint green viscose (rayon) crepe georgette.  I love how fresh and spring-y the colour is: it makes me feel like I should be eating strawberries and skipping through daisy fields. And I absolutely LOVE View B of the pattern, with the curved back hem.  It was inspired by a student who couldn’t decide what length she wanted the top to end at, and cut it with a curved hem.  I’ve been playing with the curved hem ever since, getting it to just the right curve to skim over the hips and dip over the bottom. View B has become my go-to top with jeans …

Announcing Scroop Patterns!

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Dear readers, after three years of mentions, planning, and work, I am VERY excited to announce the launch of my pattern line: Scroop is the name for  the sound that silk and rayon taffeta make.  It is added through an additional chemical process that hardens the cellulose and protein filaments, and serves no other purpose than to give the fabric its distinctive rustle. I find the concept of scroop fascinating:  when we think of the desirable of fabric we think of colours and patterns, surface sheen, hand and sculptural qualities, fibre content.  Sound rarely comes into the equation, and yet the sound that stiff silks make is so desirable that at some point fabric manufacturers began experimenting with ways to increase it, and now the acid bath that creates scoop is an integral part of the process. As I developed my pattern line, I kept coming back to the idea behind  scroop: of taking something that it already wonderful (whether it is taffeta or  sewing patterns), and adding just that little bit more to make …