The Sew Me Something Emporium is based in Stratford upon Avon, home of William Shakespeare and to show our love for the Bard we have named our patterns after some of his heroines.

Funny, beautiful, clever, and audacious everything a woman should be.

Katherine, or Kate, is from The Taming of the Shrew.

Katherine is a woman of fierce intelligence and finds herself at odds with society and unwilling to accept her prescribed place within it. Her independent spirit is in conflict with the fact that the only future for her is to find a husband.

Enter Petruchio, Kate is undeniably drawn to him and he clearly proves himself to be her intellectual and verbal equal but can he show her a way of finding her place in society while maintaining her dignity?

You will have to read for yourself to see if it’s a happy ever after ending…