Plaid Women’s Blazer

Green Plaid Women's Sport Jacket

Pub­lished March 13, 2019 Women’s Sport Jacket Hap­py (ear­ly) St. Patrick­’s Day! Today, I’m shar­ing one of my recent cus­tom orders. Here is a sports jack­et/blazer for a lady.  I used Gor­don tar­tan wool from Eng­land. This dark green, navy, and gold check is a clas­sic Scot­tish tar­tan named after the House of Gordon. The pock­ets and sleeve hem bind­ing were made with soft cognac (real) South Amer­i­can leather. (The but­ton is also...

Ukrainian Embroidered Blouse Plaid Dress

Ukrainian Embroidered Girls Blouse

Pic­co­las Col­lec­tion Shop Chil­drenswear Fall Clothing We saved the best gar­ment for last. The final piece of the 2018 Pic­coalas fall col­lec­tion is the hand embroi­dered blouse/vyshyvanka. It is a white linen bohemi­an style blouse with black and navy authen­tic Ukrain­ian embroi­dery. The blouse can be pur­chased on the web­site here: Ukrain­ian embroi­dered blouse Cus­tomers can cus­tomize the col­ors and embroi­dery design. Please email Mary Grace if you are inter­est­ed in...

Sustainable Fashion Plaid Jackets, Solid Wool Cape, and Wool Leather Coats for Midwest Family

girls wool coats

What will the world look like in 20 or 30 years? Will peo­ple con­tin­ue to wear dis­pos­able cloth­ing? (The aver­age life span of a gar­ment is 3 years.) Will fast fash­ion com­pa­nies exist? Will the fash­ion indus­try con­tin­ue to be the #2 pol­luter in the world? These are the ques­tions being asked in the fash­ion indus­try right now. Not only are fash­ion com­pa­nies wast­ing mil­lions of pounds of unsold gar­ments...

Part 1 Piccolas by Anagrassia’s “Frontier” Fall Collection: The Kid’s Sports Jacket

Handmade High End Designer Wool Cashmere Tailored Cape Coat Jacket & Leather with Plaid Tartan Skirts Dresses with Ukrainian hand embroidered couture blouses

It’s offi­cial­ly fall in North­ern Indi­ana. Our warm sum­mer nights have tran­si­tioned into crisp cool days. The leaves have lost their vibrant greens and tak­en on a myr­i­ad of amber, gold­en and crim­son hues. A few remain, cling­ing to trees, but most are blan­ket­ing the ground where they’ve fall­en, just wait­ing for an eager child to rake them into piles for jumping. And right down the street, in a shop...

Tan Wool Cashmere Tailored Cape with Lapels & Collar

Handmade Anagrassia Tan Camel Beige Champagne Wool Cashmere Tailored Cape Coat Jacket with beautiful English Rayon. Created with pockets, lapels, slit & collar

This fall & hol­i­day was the sea­son of capes! I made lots of them!  (I will post more pho­tos of capes on the blog soon.) Here is one of the adults capes, which I made for my sis­ter. She chose the Bur­dastyle pat­tern (8/2014 #124) and tan (almost cham­pagne) wool cashmere. It’s a tai­lored cape, so I used bespoke tai­lor­ing tech­niques for the lapels. The com­bi­na­tion of soft, thick, and (some­what)...

SHOP the BANDED ADULT TUNIC (Ochre & Ivory)

deep gold ochre green tunic cape blouse

Shop new tunics on web­site here or on Etsy I’m very excit­ed to announce the release of my first ADULT man­u­fac­tured product! This tunic design is a com­bi­na­tion of every­thing I desire in a tunic: ochre and/or ivory col­ors, cov­ers the back hips and butt, boat neck­line, fit­ted ¾ sleeves, tighter around the shoul­ders, not trans­par­ent, heav­ier in weight, and does not look like a mater­ni­ty top. There are 2 lay­ers of...