Helene's Stuff

Here is Giant Sparkly Banner in the Opening Processional at Gulf Wars this year.  Incidentally, I am on the left holding the banner and...

The pre-Gulf Wars surcoat assembly crunch is finished!  Sunday night we finished 9 more surcoats and then 2 more on Monday.  Last night ...

After numerous repairs and lots of cleaning, the prodigal surcoat is looking mighty fine!  I returned it this Tuesday to our War Company c...

 My first task was applique repair. Here is a good example of a stripe that needed help. The linen has disintegrated in bits and the appl...

On the morning of the first great sewing day, I was starting to get a little nervous.  We were making a lot of surcoats for a lot of people ...