Whipping up creations, from bedspreads to ball gowns, these stich-bewitched celebrities have found a pattern for success.
People Weekly September 14,1998
By the time General Hospital star Rebecca Herbst realized she had nothing to wear to the L.A. premier of The Mask of Zorro in July, the gala was just 24 hours away. But she didn't worry, she got to work. "I just made a straight black tube dress with two slits up the side," says the actress, who plays scheming-teen-turned-rape victim Elizabeth Webber. "I did it in 45 minutes. I was pretty happy." Through only 21, Herbst has plenty of experience behind a bobbin. A former amateur ice skater, she used to watch closely as her mother, Debbie, stiched up her costumes for competitions. "I used all the extra scraps to make cloths for my Cabbage Patch dolls,"she recalls. "It always came pretty naturally to me." These days, Herbst, working on a computerized Quantum Singer machine she got as a high school graduation present in 1995, channels her energies into special-occasion garments. She made her mauve chiffon gown for the Daytime Emmys in May and her stretch velvet tube dress for the Soap Opera Digest Awards in February. "I don't just make a pair of pants or something," she says with a laugh. Herbst, who lives in Agoura Hills, Calif., has also created a blamket and romper for the baby daughter of GH costar Sarah Brown. "What I really hope is that one day people will be wearing Rebecca Herbst cloths," she says. "I've always had a designing bug in me."
"I just made a straight black tube dress with two slits up the side," says the actress, who plays scheming-teen-turned-rape victim Elizabeth Webber. "I did it in 45 minutes. I was pretty happy."