Martha McCain - guest blogger

Hi, I’m Martha McCain. As Andrea mentioned in a blog last week, she and I have been friends for ages. How can you be invited by a friend to talk about your work and not jump on it! “Do you want the twenty-five-words-or-less version or may I ramble on?” Andrea graciously invited me to ramble - within reason.

Martha WHO? 

 A few years ago I did a series of Civil War era patterns for Simplicity:

As Andrea said, we worked together in costume shops in New York City. She was the best first hand a draper could hope for. Not only could she could sew up a storm, she was a handy fitting model. The only drawback to our professional relationship was that she was a full-time college student at the same time. My heart sank every time she had to run out the door to take a class

Martha draping a costume from The Angle of Repose for the San Francisco Opera -costumes designed by Lawrence Casey

Andrea modeling a costume from Mother Courage for The Acting Company - costumes designed by Jeannie Button

Andrea wanted to sing and I wanted to design, She graduated from the Manhattan School of Music and I went off to the Yale Drama School. A wonderful partnership, though certainly not the friendship, came to an end.

So what am I doing now? Research. Patterns. Writing. That’s the quick answer.
But she did say I could natter on a bit - another time.