Cosplay
/Everything I’ve ever made has been on my 1947 Singer Featherweight. Super-portable and only 11 pounds, it acts like a full-size machine. It’s a terrier among its larger, more modern plastic siblings. It can handle anything (as long as you don’t need anything more than a straight stitch, which I always find a way to manage). You can fix nearly all of it yourself, and if you’re very lucky, there will be a good repair shop nearby that understands how special these machines are for more complicated work.
POP CULTURE
You can see these in more detail on their own pages.
Historical garb
My family and I go to a lot of renaissance and medieval faires, and we’re in the Society for Creative Anachronism as well.
Wedding dresses
OK, so this isn’t cosplay, but it’s costuming of a sort. I made the first wedding dress from scratch (rose-ivory silk under lace netting and Brussels lace sleeves) and the second one by taking an existing April Cornell skirt, buying another in a larger size and adding it as a lower layer (hey, they were on sale), and using extra lace from the skirt to make sleeves for the top.
