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The Black (no, White!) Blazer
I’ve been wanting to tackle sewing a blazer for almost a year. I’m a total blazer fanatic, and I have at least six black jackets, three of which are tuxedo style (one in velvet with silk lapels,...
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I Used to Be a Hacker
Despite the fact that my garden is in its most glorious state of the year, with wildflowers and roses blossoming in wild enthusiasm… I’ve been forcing myself indoors. I’m in the throes of jacket-making...
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The White Jacket: Bits and Bobs
(No, I’m not English but ‘bits and bobs’ is one of those useful phrases I picked up living with a ship of English folk for the last three years.) I spent a good hour testing interfacings on the dupioni...
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Black and White and Patti Smith
For a very, very short while, I was in a band. Well, actually I was in two, but the second never made it out of the garage (or, in this case, the attic). The first one, fronted by a fabulous...
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Sneak Preview: The White Jacket
I am a slowwwww sewer. And I actually have time to sew, but I move at such a contemplative pace. A friend of ours recently quoted something he read, “The first 40 years of your life you’re trying to...
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The White Jacket: Finished
Yay! White Jacket is done. Actually, it’s been done for over a week but I wanted to take it to the cleaners for one last press and to clean some of the grub that’d occurred while handling and sewing....
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