By this point, most of you will have seen that I am opening a fabric store. Over the past few weeks and since getting the keys I have moved 12 boxes, 8 large bags, 2 desktop computers, a rolling rack and my 2 industrial machines into the new space. It’s a mess. I’m typing this perched on a microwave box because I have yet to get an office chair. Next comes finding storage for all the stuff that’s been accumulated over the years but my affinity for particularity is blocking me from just ordering a bunch of fixtures from IKEA. I want the space to feel lived in and am hoping I can source second hand as much as possible. So we wait. Thank goodness there’s sewing. Now having my two beauties (machines) back I was aching to zone out and get back on them. Thankfully I packed smart and put all my cutwork/in work/project pile projects in a designated box and found a Bonnet sample I had cut late last summer. This Bonnet, however, has a skin forward hack (adjustment?) applied. It’s a Bonnet with a vee neck that I will now share with you all here….. While in the early stages of stocking the fabric store, one of my main focuses is on sourcing shirting fabrics. I love working with shirting because it’s stable to sew, it wears in well over time (hello cotton), the topstitching and when you change color or print, even with the same pattern, a whole different vibe arrises. Polka dots, playful. Stripes, classic. Red, vibrant. Blue, mellow. When I was creating the Genra, the main goal was to create a shirt that gave that effortless, I’m sitting at a cafe drinking wine in the south of Italy in peak summer, open shirt look. The Bonnet however was intended to be more workwear leaning. A great...