StraightJacket Muse

As I was starting the above title, I was naturally reminded of an old Communist era joke, what's black and white and red all over?  Prav...

Not a whole lot of sewing has been going on chez Straightjacket recently, but I did make this little jacket early this summer, from fabr...

Back to regular programming!  Whew - those itty bitty little booties really took me out of my comfort zone. My black wool matelasse (...

The last few times I tried to wear my red boucl é  Chanel jacket, I had to abandon the inclination.  I shrunk a little in the last few years...

I found a lace overlay fabric at our local store over a year ago.  It's a wool-rayon boiled knit in winter white, with black cotton-poly...

This is just to close the loop on my previously published grey wardrobe. To reiterate, my latest jacket was based on New Look 6516.  It lo...

Today was a beautiful day:  dry and, relatively speaking, warm.  No rain, no snow, temp well above freezing.  Tomorrow, I hear, it'll be...