Nice Detailed Video of custom apparel production!

I just found this Eco Apparel - Factory Tour explained by a nice graphics guy showing all of the process details, neat!

I really like the idea of custom apparel because what is ordered is developed specifically for the customer.

The First Lady likes retro girly dresses!

On the Huffington Post recently, they posted that Michelle Obama is wearing another Talbots dress I worked on!

They mislabel the dress as red, but it's actually orange and white, and there is another colorway in blue that I personally like better. It's another girly summer smock, and I helped with making this dress look good in plus sizes, reduced the bulk in the lining (because a lot of factories don't make their samples with separate lining patterns, they just copy the shell) and helped to make those scoopy armholes look nice on a lot many more shapes of women than our muscle armed first lady.

Wearing a Dress in Public Twice!

So Michelle Obama wore a Talbot's dress on the cover of the May 2009 issue of Essence, and then was photographed in it again July 6th while boarding Air Force One on her way to Russia! That image can be seen here and here. I really like that dress, mainly because I worked on improving the pattern and fit of the dress. We were working on interpreting the fashion design to make the bodice fit a woman with a chest, and making sure that the skirt draped properly on all figures. As you can see from the technical drawing, it has great details on the top of the bodice, which the First Lady seems to want to cover up with a cardigan!

It's Mohop Shoe Time!

So this summer will be filled with fancy events, like weddings and little parties, so I'm practicing walking on my platform Mohop shoes, because they've been hibernating for months, waiting for it to get warmer outside. For all of these events I will be wearing merely one shoe! Several different ways! Yay!

My New Favorite Multifunctional Shoes

After breaking this pair of shoes in on one long blistery ICA tour guide trip via the T and back, these shoes have proved their worth indoors and out! Especially in American households, like C.'s fmaily, where the family wears shoes inside. The rubber outsole doesn't really attract dirt outside, however, it isn't hard for dewy grass to get the leather insole a little wet...

Sheep Gal Has lots of baby lambies!

This is from a blog I heard of from the "Ready Set Knit" podcast. Some cute little videos of baby sheep! Awwww!!!!

An easier yogurt recipe

A couple of months ago, I made yogurt from a very elaborate professors' recipe that was pretty paranoid about being sterile and clean. In the June 2009 Yoga Journal, which will eventually be found on yogajournal.com There is a much less rigorous version of the recipe that pretty much says the same thing,which sterilizes the milk longer without mentioning to sterilize the yogurt jar, and saying that 112 degrees, not 110 degrees, is the magic tempurature that yogurt bacteria will be happy in. Try it!