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Sempstress prefers to be viewed from Netscape 4.0 or above on a mac. The interface is not as clean from IE. Sempstress includes CSS and Javascript. If your browser does not support these, you might miss out on some stuff.
Sempstress is hosted by FortuneCity.com. FortuneCity kindly provides web space in exchange for the add banners, and has recently graced me with a domain to call home - www.sempstress.com.
The site graphic is modelled after a series of 16th centure woodcuts featured in Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd. The two cats in the large picture are modelled after my own cats. (People who sew almost always have cats. I haven't figured out why. You'd think we go for an animal that doesn't like to chase string....)
Sempstress' graphics and layout were designed on a DVD iMac (tangerine, before you ask), using SimpleText, PhotoShop 3.0, and AppleWorks (graphics), with occassional intervention from Adobe PageMill (image size tags).
Sempstress is a remake of SewHappy, which many people have enjoyed and, occassionally, found educational. The decision to remake the site as Sempstress came when FortuneCity offered to cover my domain registration and hosting, and I discovered that, sometime during the year and a half life of SewHappy, someone else had gone and registered what was clearly my site name for her own purposes. Rather than fight it out, I decided to take a go at some long overdo reorganization and long missing content.
The original SewHappy site was made with Macromedia DreamWeaver and Adobe Photoshop, on an Intel something-or-other which variously ran all known recent window-shades, depending on what had killed it last time.
The rather odd creature maintaining this site is a recovering Windows developer. She is involved in a 12 step program, has bought her iMac, and is feeling Much Better Now. She now teaches Web Development, and is attempting to start a business doing things that pointedly do not involve computers. She has been sewing for a handful of years, and avidly sewing Elizabethan Costume for about 5 years now. Having been naturally gifted with the ability to make mistakes and a good dose of bullheadedness, she has ploughed gracelessly through most of the mistakes she can think of regarding the sewing of costume in that short time, and now feels qualified to share the results of that blundering with others. She often refers to herself in the third person. No, medication is not the answer.
