I live in Sweden and has been interested in fashion history since I was twelve. It all started with a series of paperdolls in a magazine. Every doll was from different time periods and came with a short text that descibed the most important fashion details of the time. As I had always played and made clothes for paperdolls I soon became interested in drawing correct period clothes for them and started to study fashion history. And then I got hooked...

For ten years or so I made costumes for various amateur opera- and theatre plays. Lots of fun, but also lots of hard work and no money. So I got tired of it and decided that I wanted to sew clothes for myself instead. But were to start? I love all fashions that has a waist, i.e just about everything from the 15th-century and forward. But I have always had a soft spot for the 18th-century, ever since I got totally facinated by Leslie Howard´s "The Scarlet Pimpernel", at the tender age of five. I also knew that there existed an 18th-century society in Sweden called Sällskapet Gustafs Skål. So I became a member and now have plenty of opportunities to wear my new clothes.

I am mostly self-learned when it comes to sewing. Some evening courses in my teens and one term of pattern construction is all. I do this for my own pleasure, I do not sell anything and I have no claims on being an expert. My free time is very limited, so I cannot sew as much as I would like to, unfortunately.