Expert in shirt-drafting and construction, Steve Pauling is guiding me through creating a sloper for…
Paula DeGrandMay 9, 2013
Readers, This Calvin Klein anorak, dating from 1990, is unlined and calls for the clean…
Paula DeGrandMay 4, 2013
Readers, (Photo: Goldstein Museum of Design.) This morning, May 2, I put on a spring…
Paula DeGrandMay 2, 2013
Readers, I didn't know till five minutes ago that I knew any words from Greenlandic…
Paula DeGrandApril 30, 2013
Readers, I've been watching segments of David Page Coffin's Shirtmaking Techniques DVD and practicing using…
Paula DeGrandApril 27, 2013
Readers, Happiness is a shirt made just for you. I've made so many shirts in…
Paula DeGrandApril 25, 2013
Readers, Finishing two tailoring projects--a coat and a jacket--in (for me) rapid succession has gotten…
Paula DeGrandApril 22, 2013
Readers, There may still be snow in the yard, but I'm one step closer to…
Paula DeGrandApril 20, 2013
Readers, I volunteer one morning a week for the Goldstein Museum of Design, on the…
Paula DeGrandApril 17, 2013
Readers, Wearing the coat I recently finished, I dug through the wools table for more…
Paula DeGrandApril 13, 2013
Readers, Monday I was going to finish my jacket. Yup, grand finale. Get it done…
Paula DeGrandApril 11, 2013
Readers! Eureka! You know those moments when tedious preparation gives way to visible progress? Not…
Paula DeGrandApril 6, 2013
Readers, Work continues, slow but sure. As I've noted before, it's been the interfacing decisions…
Paula DeGrandApril 4, 2013
Readers, Just checking in. I ran samples of the red flat piping I mentioned in…
Paula DeGrandApril 1, 2013
Readers, Some supplies for the jacket. I've set aside my test garment, as I concluded…
Paula DeGrandMarch 30, 2013
Readers, Sometimes I make great strides in a project, to which progress photos can attest. …
Paula DeGrandMarch 28, 2013
Readers, The goal. My test garment is underway. Here are the headlines: Patch pockets have…
Paula DeGrandMarch 25, 2013
Readers, The inspiration: blue and white Art Deco-era buttons, souvenirs from a little antique shop…
Paula DeGrandMarch 23, 2013
Readers, My newly finished coat, with big pockets, big buttons, big cuffs. I finished…
Paula DeGrandMarch 21, 2013
Readers, I spent a productive Sunday and part of today making lots of progress since…
Paula DeGrandMarch 18, 2013
Bound buttonholes in front are done now. They look pretty good. Readers, A lot of…
Paula DeGrandMarch 16, 2013