Hi, everyone! My name is Donna, but I post and am known online as 'angldst'. I live in Alexandria, Virginia. I've been sewing since i was aged 8, and have been sewing professionally for 10 yrs now for my business Original Sin Design. I love vintage and retro fashion and have been collecting patterns from the 30s, 40s & 50s for a long time now. I received this pattern
from an Ebay seller a couple of weeks ago, and I'm making it up the middle version to wear to a wedding this coming Sunday. I had to trace it off and alter it down from a 28 to a 26" waist, and I've done more of a taper down into the flounce, because I like a definite 'pencil' skirt look, and can pull it off well. I'm making it up in a fuschia stretch woven material with an applied black lace overlay, and for the flounce I'm taking the scalloped selvedges of the lace, and using them at the hem of the lace flounce. I'll see if I can get my husband to take a picture of the finished skirt if it turns out nicely.

I also want to thank fellow bloggers here for the tip of searching in thrift & secondhand stores for sheets for reclaimable fabric. I found a marvelous large white cotton sheet with eyelet lace trim-perfect for victorian dainties (I also do a lot of victorian costuming)! Large sheet in great shape for 3 bucks! W00t. So, thanks, fellow sewists!

I have a blog over at Original Sin Sewing that I post in sporadically for my professional work, and I'm on Livejournal as 'angldst'.
Thanks for reading! :)