Alabama Stitch Book
Alabama Stitch Book "Haute homespun out of the Deep South." That's how Vogue magazine has described the fashion of Natalie Chanin. After living in New York and Vienna for over 20 years, she began to…
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Alabama Stitch Book
"Haute homespun out of the Deep South." That's how Vogue magazine has described the fashion of Natalie Chanin. After living in New York and Vienna for over 20 years, she began to transform cotton T-shirts into high fashion using the needlework skills she learned as a child in Florence, Alabama. Alabama Stitch Book brings us a collection of projects and stories from her clothing and lifestyle company, Alabama Chanin, known for the cutting-edge twist it puts on tried-and-true sewing, quilting, and embroidery techniques, applied mostly by hand to recycled cotton jersey.This long-awaited book from Chanin begins with her story.
When she moved home, Chanin hired local women (many of whom had worked in the state's now defunct textile factories) to stitch her couture collections with her.What follows is a step-by-step guide to the stitching, stenciling, and beading