It took me a long time to adjust, both physically and psychologically, to the intense heat and sun of the Texas summer. I’m a native midwesterner and before Austin we moved around northern Europe, so the perfect wardrobe in my imagination was a very constructed urban sophisticated look better suited to Londoners. I never had …
Tag: Sewing Silk
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. And you know what? The dang cleaners pressed a different roll line. What’s up with that? …
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 beat death. The second 40 you’re embracing it.” It wasn’t a cynical observation at all, if …