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Moulin Rouge! - Carly Mercedes Dyer (she/her) as Satine, requested by anon
Birthday: January 10, 1987 (age 35)
Birth Place: Middlesex, England
Theatre credits include: Erma (Anything Goes), Fate (Hadestown), Jane Seymour (Six), Anita (West Side Story), Ensemble/First Cover Lorrell/Michelle (Dreamgirls), Ensemble/Cover Jeanie (Hair), Ensemble (Chicago)
(Pictured on the right is Ashley Loren, who is currently playing the role in the Broadway production)
Credits: Mike Marsland, JP Yim
Sew News, Spring 2022
Although it is threatening to freeze again where I live, spring sewing is now what we should be doing, and Sew News encourages it with a lot of cottons and short-sleeved designs.
On the cover you see a blouse with couching--the sewing down upon a fabric, in this case by hand, of a decorative cording. You can do this by machine as well if you have a larger area to cover. Also on the cover you see the little coin purses which you can make out of remnants.
There is also an article urging us not to create remnants by doing Zero Waste sewing which takes a certain ingenuity in pattern design but whose purpose always eludes me when it comes to the home dressmaker. What is the difference between having extraneous bits of fabric hanging off my garment and collecting them in one of the boxes I keep for them? The difference between useless and useful is my answer. So my dog has a coat made out of 3 kinds of outerwear remnants, one of those remnants also lines one of his beds, one was also used to make a water-proof bag, etc. Using up scrap fabric is an old tradition, see crazy quilts, and one we should keep up, see the little coin purses.
Other articles offer useful alteration advice. Michelle Morris offers an article on how to alter a pattern to create tiers as you see in the yellow top and matching skirt. Kimberly Payne shows you how to alter a simple shirt pattern in various ways as you can see. Sadie Fox Metter adds a godet to a t-shirt sleeve to dress it up a bit. Godet = wedge of fabric shaped like a piece of pie seen from above. I like to use them instead of slits in straight skirts, but you can see they can give flare and space for the body to move.
In addition, there are technical articles on pleats, on flat-lock stitching, plus more alteration articles, and interviews with makers.
Fine it at your local fabric store, newsstand, or online here: https://www.sewdaily.com/sewing/sew-news-magazine/
Michelle Morris during “It’s All Over” when everyone sings about their beef with Effie:
One Dress a Day
Honourable Mentions
The Adventures of Robin Hood - Lady Marian (Olivia de Havilland) The Tudors - Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer) Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries - Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) Dreamgirls - Michelle Morris (Sharon Leal), Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles), Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose)
The Slaying of the Morris Siblings
As a medical technician, Theresa Morris worked nights. After separating from her husband, she had no choice but to leave her two children, Michelle (14) and Eddie (12) alone at their home in St. Petersburg, Florida. On April 21, 1986, she arrived home at 6 am and slept for about an hour, before she went to get the kids up for school. That’s when she made a horrible discovery.
Michelle and Eddie were dead: they had been stabbed and had their throats cut, and the killer had dumped their bodies in the bathtub. Police would later determine that they had died sometime after midnight, but the testimony of neighbors helped narrow it to around 2 am. At that time, some of them had heard Michelle scream “Oh God stop” and “Don’t hurt me”. However, no one thought to call for help. One of the witnesses would later say she thought Michelle and Eddie were just having a fight, as it wasn’t unusual for them to “holler”.
It took police nine days to arrest their suspect. Physical evidence found at the scene, including a bloody footprint and bite marks on the victims, led them to Joseph Fredrick Glover, a then 29 year old man who lived in the same street as the Morris family. Glover was a mentally ill man, who rambled about spirits that talked to him and had even changed his name to “Learn Soul”. In 1983 he’d been sentenced to six months probation after beating a woman. Glover lived right next door to his brother Herbert, who ironically had been one of the neighbors who’d heard Michelle screams the night of her murder.
In 1987, Glover was found incompetent to stand trial, after doctors testified he was severely psychotic. A year later, a new evaluation decided he was now fit to face the court. In 1989, he pled no contest to the first degree murder charges, and the judge sentenced him to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for 50 years. At the time, his defense lawyer Jim Pierce insisted that Glover didn’t feel responsible for the crime, given his history of mental illness, but prosecutor Douglas Crow retorted: “I think it takes very little mental capacity to slit the throat of children, and to know that that’s wrong.”
Glover is currently incarcerated in Wakulla Correctional Institution.