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I have been a bad ,bad sewer. I have a muslin in the works, but not really getting anywhere.It's early 60s inspired. I have been wearing my hair bumpit. I am in the moods for some 60s. I had to learn over 20 songs in the last 3 weeks for all my music projects. I have some video of the band to show you, but no clothes, UNLESS you like to watch me rock out in CLASSIC MONSTER Fabric. I decided that I wanted to wear monsters for both shows. So in this video I have on my Walmart Vampire T shirt Recon- Flapper dress thingie. PLus I think this might be the best recorded version of my playing this guitar solo.

This hearse was at an event I went to two weeks ago..A DEMOLITION DERBY at the local Speedway! Anyhoo, the cast from Monster Mad House was there and brought their hearse! It's no secret that I have always wanted a vintage hearse. Yea Yea, it's probably haunted but I would LOVE to freak out the neighbors and delight the children! I JUST happened to be wearing my DIY hearse print dress AND a hearse necklace! What luck! POSING TIME! Pretty hot in a Morticia kind of way! Ojala! And the coolest event of the night was A HEARSE JUMPING COMPETITION! We think it's a caddy... At the end of the night they had torn the roof off. Dammit. A perfectly good hearse! Grrrrr. Guapo sin gafas de sol, EL MEJOR! Here you can see my hearse necklace. I bought it from Etsy, don't remember the seller. Loves it. Hair is a roller set done using hot sticks . They come up with a tight curl and if only comb them with your dedos (fingers) you can make the curls last longer. amores. I have vampire tee...

I get questions now and then I then I get all proud of how awesome my advice is (har har) so I thought: Hey! Why not a post series?! Feel free to submit questions to mlcloset(at)yahoo(dot)com! Today's questions come from a reader who is a new sewer: "Why is this "sloper" different than if I bought a plus size pattern, say from like Cindy Crawford on Butterick?  " Dear Reader: About fitting patterns from Butterick..... They have very detailed directions that help you to fit the pattern as close as possible. The point is to fit it very close to the body so You have like a 2D model of yourself. When you sew from it, you can add more room in the areas where you need it, like in the hips and waist, so when you sit down the skirt or dress doesn't ride up. The shell comes with two patterns. One is the fitting shell, and the other is like an instruction that teaches you how to add ease to your fitting shell so you can now make a perfect dress. But the main...

I am Modeling a shower car made by Retro Revival! I may or may not be wearing anything...can you tell? click here! These shower caps are the most well-made I have ever seen. They are gonna last for YEARS. Nice designs too! Check em out, buy one for your 'do.

 Yep, the material is the same as my last project. I can safely say that I have two one of a kind dresses for a total of $40 handmade! I only have a few scraps of this left. The first dress is 40s era. This second dress is 50s era. If you watched my last video on my youtube channel, this is the pattern that I showed you how I adapted the collar. This Advance Pattern has a beautiful double collar. It's just the cutest. Well...it's at least a CUTE pain in my ass to sew. LOL  The skirt portion is my sloper. The amount of material I had left from the last dress was not enough to make a full skirt. So I used the fitted skirt sloper. It shows off my curves.  The little calf leather box purse I found at a local vintage shop. I love it!  Round booty doin it's duty! Ok so this pattern originally has these cute upturned contrast cuffs. I made them and hated them. They just do NOT look good on me. I love how cute they are, but because my upper arms are bigger, the cuff just pul...

I am greatful for finding that set of 4 buttons (las butones) that I didn't even know I had....... because *big surprise* I have miscalculated again and I am short on buttons! Por Supuesto!