This ain’t Texas…This is Bedfordshire, a little county in rainy, old England. But let’s face it, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you can instantly picture the attire of a cowboy. With my recent accidental western style sewing project, I am now down a rabbit hole of Stetsons and Chaps and I just had to share. Trust me, you’re going to love it.

An old family polaroid can sometimes give you an instant spark of ideas that you can immediately picture the finished garment in your mind and all you need to arrive at the destination is to get started. Other times, you get started and all of a sudden meet a huge bump in the road that sends you off in a new direction. These moments can feel like a disaster, but more often than not, eventually you end up with something more brilliant than you could have foreseen.

With the last week of 2023 fast approaching, I thought it was time for something with a little more (1960’s) pizazz!