Archive for June, 2011

This feather cape took me many, many hours of time to make but it was so worthwhile. It had been a vision in my head for the past few months when I decided to learn everything I could about feathers so that I could make more unique fascinators. My daughter Kim and I watched the [...]

I made this fascinator to give a second choice to go with the white feather cape I designed and just finished making. The cape took me many hours to make and a blog is ready for you to view and read and see this custom piece. You can view the cape here Many of the [...]

I designed this sweater dress for a dancer to wear over her leotards and tights, to warm up after dancing. The dress is black, light pink and powder blue with both male and female dancers. I used a machine knitting technique called color blocking so that I could move the pink or blue background where [...]

During the time I designed sweaters and suits, I also designed sweater dresses. This style of comfortable dress, never seem to go out of style because they are so easy to wear and always look good. They are great to curl up on a winter’s day with a good book to read. This one was [...]

As a knitwear designer, I designed many, many Texas knitwear graph designs because I love this State I live in and find anything cowboy or cowgirl to be a lot of fun. This sweater dress features several of these designs in one garment. This sweater dress features so many of my silhouette Western designs. I [...]

When I was a knitwear designer I made hundreds of garments, most of which I donated later to help women who could not afford it, dress well to get employment. I kept a few pieces but now it is time to let them go to help my own situation. I am always influenced by many [...]

Here is another one of a kind jacket that I made for a fashion show and I am now offering this piece for sale. Dressing my mannequin can be a problem at times because of my own physical condition, so I decided to drape my mannequin with the jacket and not worry about perfection.When I [...]

Here is the very wild black velvet fascinator with earrings I made to coordinate with the black crushed velvet collar. Very Royal indeed. I wanted to use this rhinestone crown on this fascinator and include matching earrings, so I made the fascinator mostly black. Here you can see how the rhinestone crowns look. The earrings [...]

This time I have designed and made a collar to go over my capes in black crushed velvet. I wanted this piece to have a Royal quality so I added a beautiful rhinestone crown broach. Here I have placed it over the Burgundy velvet cape to show you how it looks with another color. My [...]

This is the first of my collar accessories that will go over any of my capes. This curly fur collar is completely washable. It is lined in white satin and has a simple snap enclosure so that you can wear your choice of broach to go with your outfit. It comes with two broaches. A [...]