Utility Pants, Westernized - post soak

Warm soak and line dry.  Definitely adds some character.

These are for sale in my Etsy shop, and can be seen at Old North, in downtown Asheville.

Custom Survey Vest, Cone Mills Denim

After a warm soak and line dry.

Market Bag, Japanese Selvedge Denim and Indigo Striped Canvas

Finished drafting a pattern for some custom jeans this afternoon and had a little extra time; so tried out another idea for the grocery bag.

This one will be going in my Etsy shop.

Utility Pants, Westernized

Here's a few snapshots of the Western Utilities I just finished for Slowboat Deadstock.

Single-needle construction, hand-felled seams.

Carpenter Apron, Selvedge Denim, v. 5

I think this will be the final version of the carpenter apron.  Now to make a machinists apron, and a general shop apron.

The denim for this piece is a narrow width 2x1 weave that's woven with a gray weft.  It's pretty close in look to some of the vintage/antique pieces of denim that I have, though the texture is a little smoother and more even than the vintage stuff.  I'm looking forward to making some vests and chore coats out of it.

Carpenter Apron, Selvedge Denim, versions 1 - 4

Trying out a few different ways of making these. 

Also got to test out my new Independent Garment Workers label.  Pretty much the same as the early 20th C. union label, but I re-designed it for independent workers such as myself.

Ingredients:  North Carolina denim, North Carolina thread.

Weekend Project

Still working on perfecting the women's jeans pattern.

Ingredients:  US made denim (1% stretch), North Carolina made thread, Kentucky made buttons.  Pocket bags are salvaged material from the thrift store.