I recently picked up The Complete Book of Sewing by Constance Talbot, the 1943 edition, at an estate sale.  As longtime readers know, I have a weak spot for the intersection of WWII and homemaking, so this was a doozy for me. So much LOVE here, where to begin? Well, I adore the year-long month-by-month plan for smartening your look through the prudent use of handmade...

Comments on this post are now closed.  Thanks for entering! I’m pleased to announce that today I am hosting Day 4 of Pat Sloan‘s blog tour for her new book, What A Novel Idea! Good news: I have 2 copies of What a Novel Idea to giveaway to 2 lucky commenters of this post. Yes, you read that right: I have totally lost my mind and I’m hosting two giveaways on my blog at one...

Go ahead, look over my shoulder and see what I’m reading… Clockwise from the top left, you’ve got: Never Done: A History of American Housework by Susan Strasser The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking ed. by Barbara Burman Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici To Hell With All That: Loving and...