Any year that includes that magical striped dress up there is a good sewing year, in my book. But I think this was easily my most successful — if most myopic — year as a sewer. I sewed 12 th...
https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/31/2018-my-sewing-year-in-review-2/
Before I get to the links list, today is the launch of our annual Limited Edition “Holiday Hewett” Field Bag! This year’s is a reprise of our December 2016 print (which was grey on grey), t...
https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/06/holiday-hewett-elsewhere/
I’ve had one of those moments where two thoughts collide in my head into one bright idea. Thought One was how much I love my army shirtjacket that I refashioned a couple of years ago (seen on m...
https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/11/19/idea-log-cropped-wool-shirtjacket/
I’ve been referring to my summer sewing extravaganza as Linenpalooza 2019, but it could also be called Fen Fest for all the Fen mods I’ve sewn. This (last?) one is the most straightforward, a...
Happy Friday, friends. I’ve got a nice varied stack of Elsewhere links for you below, but one tangential one first — from Grace Bonney as she closed Design Sponge after 15 years, a bit of adv...
The weekend before last, I sewed myself what I thought was the best summer frock I’d ever owned: a blurple caftan made with Merchant & Mills Indian Ink linen and some simple mods to the Fen top...
I’ve had a number of people ask for the details on how I made the kangaroo pocket on my recent Fen mods: tunic and dress variations. Following is how I do it — and since I’m not a sewing pr...
https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/08/15/the-details-how-to-sew-a-kangaroo-pocket/
This outfit feels like a tiny personal triumph, so there are two quick things I want to tell you about it: 1) I’ve wandered onto the warm side of the color wheel for the first time in years, an...
This has been a distressing week in the US (one of far too many of its kind), and you know I feel so strongly that every one of us needs to be informed and engaged and to work for peace. (Boy hav...
This weekend I sewed myself a pair of linen pants, and I was so excited Monday morning to have two whole pairs of seasonally appropriate pants to choose from that I was asking myself why on earth...
https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/08/06/linen-pants-plus-fen-tunic-take-two/