Theresa LaQuey - guest blogger - Steampunk #1

It gives me great pleasure to reintroduce my sister, Theresa LaQuey. Click on these two links to read her original guest blog that tells a bit about her background.

Link #1 - Introduction
Link #2 - Background

And as promised, this is Theresa LaQuey week. She will talk about her very popular series of Steampunk costumes and show us lots of sketches and photos of her work.

Hello to all of you stitchers out there.  This is Andrea's little sister and fellow Simplicity designer Theresa LaQuey writing to tell you about how I got into designing Steampunk and some of the designing process.  

I had mentioned to Betsy Burger at Simplicity about 7 years ago that I was working on a Steampunk bridal project and how interesting that art movement seemed.  I said she should check it out as she hadn't heard of it.  Well, about 2 years later I got a call out of the blue from Betsy asking if I might want to take a crack at designing a Steampunk outfit.  I said sure and within about 3 hours I had scanned and sent her the following sketch. I started my ideas by checking out some online images to try to capture the essence of the style and then just put my mind to what I thought people would find attractive, a bit different and also a good jumping off point.  She then asked if I could better describe what I had sketched and so I sent her a sketch of the different pieces for the package. Little did I know that this was going to be the largest selling pattern of my career at Simplicity nor that it would be the start of a series.


Theresa has more documentation of the Steampunk costumes that follow this one. Wednesday and Friday will be devoted to her second design #1819.