I have a rather large announcement to make today. Something that I’ve been dying to get off my chest for a bit now actually and this coupled with other things that have happened here in the happy land of all things A Fashionable Stitch are the primary reasons I haven’t blogged as much usual. So…
Click on the image for a great discussion on tailoring for women! Y’all seemed pretty keen on the idea of watching the progress of two tailored jackets – one traditionally hand tailored and the other fusibly tailored. I thought I would start this series with my thoughts on tailoring. Tailoring is a very ambiguous term…
image source – note that the image says just right, not perfect I was teaching a class on fit just last night and I had an awesome bunch of ladies who were just great. We had a lot of fun. There was a moment in the class when I made the claim that there is…
Finished! My obsession jacket – a rub-off of my mom’s vintage 70′s jacket, with fitting alterations – is done. I can’t actually believe that I typed those words. Hip Hip Hooray! Alright, so in my last small post about this jacket, I alluded to the fact that this project was on a deadline. I was…
the original jacket, my mother’s I’ve been working on a rub-off of my mom’s old 70s boyfriend jacket. Its a jacket that I wore to death in my high school and early college years and its one of those styles that for me, is a classic. It fills a huge gap in my wardrobe as…
