Katherine Funk

This year has been a pretty busy year for me, both in my academic and sewing 'careers'! In past years I have ended up with pretty large...

My sister got married this summer to her longtime partner at a beautiful Canadian farm belonging to his family, and I made her wedding...

This summer I have had the incredible opportunity of working in a small archive where I have been helping digitize the photo collection...

If you have seen other dresses that I have made over the past year, you will know that I am a huge fan of Brett Lewis' fabric designs. He...

Over the past few years while I have been working on my History Bachelors Degree, I have been doing a minor in Anthropology. I loved the...

Spring always seems like a good time of year to get some mending done. Since I have finished off my exams and the weather is getting...

On Christmas day I decided that the best way to spend the rest of my holiday break would be to completely hand sew a linen shirt/dress...

It is the busiest time of year for me at the moment, but I wanted to make sure that I took time to sew in between writing papers and...

Near the beginning of the summer I had the unique opportunity to model for Hero Images, a stock photo company. They were lovely to work...

Lately I have been spending a lot of my time researching 1950's couture gowns. As a history major, research is a huge part of my life...

I spoke about this project in my last blog post, but I'll do a quick recap: this blazer (along with a matching skirt) was cut out by the...