Hi everyone! This is a process dissection of how to put together the cape dress from Friends Patterns. Thin plum coloured cotton is used.

Photo #1 - Neck pleats on bodice back. Just baste these like so.…

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS



When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things 

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into…