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I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to the fashion district of L.A.. I wish I knew it better, I felt rather trapped in Michael Levines as the surrounding area is a little seedy, shall we say. You can very quickly end up in a bad area. Or perhaps I am just used to my squeaky clean [...]

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LA Fashion District - LOOK OUT!

Michy’s coming! Well, we are off to ‘hell-a’ for a few days. Shawn has some business and I will be spending all of Monday mired in the glorious wonders of the fashion district in downtown L.A. Ahhhhh, I can smell the textiles already. For someone like me whose only fabric salvation is Joann’s, I will [...]

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The fabric

As I mentioned in my previous post, I found some fairly similar fabric at crappy Joann’s! It’s a wool tweed with coppery metallic threads running through it. It had an okay drape - but stiff enough for a jacket.
I starting cutting out the pattern pieces I would need for the project. In terms of the [...]

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