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A collection featuring casual western wear alternatives to jeans(NOT the tourist stuff) would be my choice.

I'd make a dress to wear to my husband's symphony concerts- something outrageous to be a counterpoint to his tuxedo.

Punk fashion is not my favorite but I'd go to the exhibit if it happened to be in my home town. Style doesn't have to suit me personally in order for me to be interested in it. Ya never know what's gonna be relevant.

I'd have chosen in exactly the opposite order: Uli first, then Emilio with Anthony Ryan a distant third. Linda G7 expressed my feelings about Uli so neatly that I needn't say another word about that lovely collection.

I liked the imagination, color, fun, and cohesiveness of Emilio's line but several pieces looked messy and uncomfortable (those separate bodices!)next to Uli's cool brilliance.

Each of AR's models appeared to be sporting some strange Mondrian version of aprons, overalls, and pinafores. The exception was the long blue and black gown; it featured a lovely back treatment which is the most positive thing I can say about the collection. I am not a fan of geometric shapes especially when those shapes disguise what lies under them in such an unflattering manner.

My greatest quilting experience came after clearing out my grandmother's house. I missed her very much and thought perhaps I could find a few of her quilts to take home with me. I found some in the quilt box where I expected them to be. Two more were being used as mattress pads. One was wrapped around a collection of old radio parts. Several were stuck far back on a high closet shelf. Two more were in the garage. More were folded and piled up in the junk room. In all I collected thirty-five quilts that day. I didn't unfold most of them, just piled them into the back of the truck and hauled them home.

I didn't have the heart to open them without Ma-Ma there to tell me where they came from, when they were made, and all the little bits of trivia quilters delight in. I mentioned these unexplored quilts to a group of stitching friends and the Official Quilt Opening Party was born.

One January afternoon, a dozen friends braved the snowy weather and crowded into my small bedroom to open the quilts one by one on the tall iron bed I'd also inherited. Imagine dignified ladies of a certain age sprawled across the mattress to look intently at seams to determine whether they were stitched by hand or the treadle machine that now rested next to the iron bed.

One by one we unfolded the quilts and looked at them. Forty gentle hands stroked the quilts, marveling at the tiny pieces in the Job's Trouble and the way my grandmother had pieced tinier pieces together when there wasn't enough whole fabric to cut a slice of Snowball.

I could feel my grandmother in the room, murmuring. "Well, I'll do know" in wonder at all these people exclaiming over her handiwork and that of the people who often helped her with the quilting: my grandfather, my great-grandmother, and any number of cousins and aunts. I confess I cried a little but my friends were there to wrap me in their arms and cry with me.

That was many years ago. It's January again and I've been thinking: all those quilts are due to be taken out and aired and refolded for storage. What if I called a few folks...

The Official Quilt Unfolding Party is set for February 2. If you're in Central Wyoming, drop on by.

Living in the wilds of Wyoming, books are the closest I get to haute couture.

Thanks! I needed this.

I am such a dimwit. Here is the link:http://www.doubleveil.net/zssmp/

The machine in the picture is exactly, precisely the machine I inherited from my grandmother! How cool to see it online. I learned to sew on it and my grandmother made my sister and me dozens of dresses on it. It is still operational though it needs to be cleaned. There are a pile of attachments that go with it but I've never used them. We also have my husband's grandmother's treadle, a New Automatic, age unknown but still operational. Most of the time we use them as tables but occasionally we still sew on one.

My mother in law used to tell a story about watching her mother sew on the New Automatic. Great granma was making a wedding veil when someone brought in a torn canvas off the tractor. She changed needles and thread, sewed up the canvas, changed back to the other needle and thread and completed the veil- not a single other adjustment was needed.

I have a 1940s Singer than belonged to my mother; it has a knee control rather than a foot control. I have my Singer from the late 1960s and my darling Janome that I splurged and bought for myself several years ago. There are at least a couple other portables around the attic and neither my husband nor I have any idea where they came from.

Is it permissible to post a link here? This page is owned by Zorba, a collector and restorer. Ever heard of "hot rodding" sewing machines?

My hometown is blessed with a plethora of wonderful second hand stores; why shop anywhere else when I can get a Coldwater Creek jacket for $3 and a LandsEnd sweater for $2.50- both in new condition!

I took a fifty cent black velvet bolero jacket with stains under the arms and turned it into a cool gold-trimmed vest that sold at an arts and crafts fair for $15- a bargain for the customer and a nice profit for me. I turned a beautiful little girl's Christmas formal into a Tribal dance costume that sold at a belly dance fair before I had all my merchandise on display; same for a couple of refurbished skirts and a knit top.

One of the shop managers told me, "It's like working in a revolving closet: I buy something for a couple of dollars, wear it a few times, then donate it back and buy somthing else."

LucyJane, St. Vincent de Paul is one of my favorites.

The most exciting sewing destination I ever went to: the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico when Writing With Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities was on display. Ethnic costume and embroidery are my passions and this exhibit was a treat rarely seen outside China.

Unlike other museums (I'm talking about you, Denver Art Museum) that put glass-enclosed displays so far away that you can barely see the items, this museum generously exhibited the costumes without obstruction. I spent most of the day wandering from costume to costume, noting color, construction detail, and embroidery. No mean little old lady frowned at me for leaning closer to see details and no crowds forced me away from a particlar costume before I'd looked to my heart's content. The exhibit catalog I bought is one of the most beautiful books I own and has been the inspiration for a number of projects.

The same day across the mall, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture had an extensive display of rugs and (bonus!) a weaver demonstrating her craft. As a self-taught weaver, I was able to ask this woman several questions that I had not been able to figure out on my own. Simply standing and watching her work was an education in itself.

I suppose it is possible that I could be less interested in this exhibit, but I can't imagine how.;) Ivy League men's wear is not my thing. Now a retrospective on western wear for men... that I'd go to see.

Color, hand, usefulness, practical care. I particularly love rayon challis, hemp, and silks.

I make costume bras for belly dancers and look forward to the article on bras.

Gorgeous- both the outfit and the model.