Making Your Own Clothes Is Fun And It Saves Money
March 29, 2012 By
Sewing your own clothes is fun, and it can save money. You buy a pattern once, and then use it over and over. Even if you gain or lose weight, you can adjust a pattern to fit you. Shopping for new patterns can be fun. Flipping through the pages of the new Simplicity pattern book, [...]
April 12, 2009 By
This dress took weeks of designing, planning, sewing, and resewing, but it is now all done. This dress will be called Muriel. It is based on a picture of a 1911 special occasion dress. I made it to honor my neighbor and friend who taught me about sewing and inspired me to persue it professionally. I will present it to [...]
Coming Soon
March 21, 2009 By
I have been tirelessly working on getting Thornton Square all ready to put on the web. I have so many different designs, it has taken time to sort them all out, and name them. We spent much of this afternoon shooting pictures to put on the site. Many of them came out, but some we [...]
Getting Thornton Up and Running
March 12, 2009 By
I have been working on getting Thornton Square up and running. I have several different outfits, and designs all made, and I have been working on a couple others. Now, I just need to get the pictures taken, descriptions put together and then get them on the site. This is something I have been working [...]
Our Neigborhood
January 21, 2008 By
This is our neighborhood circa 1917 This is our neighborhood circa 2007 As you can see not much has changed in our neighborhood 90 years. The road is wider, and now paved, and the trees have changed a bit, but other than that things remain the same. Most of the people are the same as [...]
