This book is positively intoxicating. It's a veritable lifestyle guide, filled with sewing techniques, printmaking how-to's, recipes, methods for refurbishing ramshackle chairs, and, well, sheer gorgeousness. I have poured over it for weeks now. Though I intend to give all of the homemaking a try, the garment patterns are most exciting to me. My current project is a dark blue tank dress for Juliana to take with her to Africa. I'll post pictures as soon as I finish it.
The cotton jersey that is utilized in all the sewing patterns is pretty elusive in my neck of the woods, unfortunately. Juliana and I took a pilgrimage to a fabric store and bought some before I realized that the author, Natalie Chanin, sells her organic cotton jersey, which is grown, spun, and knit in the USA, on her DIY website. Everything you need to become a homespun Alabama fashionista can be found there.
Or, if you'd prefer, you can buy her handsewn couture garments readymade here. I prefer to oggle the designs and utter a fervent prayer that I can one day make a facsimile of some of these garments.
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Now Kate, an Alabama home in a New York town??? That's absolutely preposterous. I love your sense of danger. And your fashion, and, well, you.
Your sister is going to Africa? Where and what for? I would love to go...I really enjoy the Alexander McCall Smith fictional books that take place in Botswana: "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency."
I love those books, too! My dad has read the whole series aloud to my mom. They're adorable.
Juliana is going to Uganda for 2 weeks with a group from the Orthodox Christian Missions. She's an RN, so she'll be helping set up clinics and administering shots, etc. It's been her dream for a long time.
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