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

Burdastyle Wool Navy High Neck Cape with Gold Irish Buttons
Marusya
Handmade Anagrassia long Navy Wool Tailored Cape Coat Jacket with high collar and gold irish buttons. Notre dame football tailgates. Burdastyle sewing pattern.

Here is anoth­er adult cape I made this season. This cape was made with 100% wool and gold Irish buttons. I used Bur­dastyle’s 9/2015 #115 sewing pattern. The only change I made to the pat­tern were the place­ments of buttons/buttonholes. I also hand-stitched all the edges/hems of the cloak, instead of adding piping/bias tape trim. This cape is very warm and per­fect for Notre Dame foot­ball tail­gates & games in the fall!...

Tan Wool Cashmere Tailored Cape with Lapels & Collar
Marusya
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)...

Brown Tweed and Cherry Brown Leather Asymmetrical Matching (Dinosaur Themed) Jackets
Marusya
ochre brown sequence burgundy wine dusty rose silk lined Tweed asymmetrical jacket custom bespoke leather anagrassia coat ruffle black wide collar dinosaur kids

Mak­ing match­ing jack­ets with my nieces has become an annu­al tra­di­tion. This year Gigi request­ed a dinosaur jack­et. This was a tall order espe­cial­ly since bomber jack­ets with dinosaur appliqués was not an option. There­fore I had to be a bit more cre­ative with the lim­it­ed mate­ri­als and time I had available. I decid­ed upon burnt orange/brown tweed wool with sequins, which remained from a pre­vi­ous pur­chase in NYC. I...

Spring Floral Jacket with Wide Collar
Marusya
Floral Spring Easter Colorful Rose Jacket Coat Wide Collar Pockets Anagrassia Kids Children Fully Lined Cuffs Slit

Here is one of the flo­ral coats I cre­at­ed for one of my dear­est goddaughters. I will have a few extra spring jack­ets avail­able for sale on Etsy soon. The but­tons used on the jack­ets are from a Mil­wau­kee antique shop. These but­tons are beau­ti­ful. I wish I knew who was the orig­i­nal own­er of the buttons. Ful­ly Lined Jacket...

Matching Champagne Wool Coats with Cognac Leather & Wide Collars
Marusya
100% Long Champagne Wool Coat jacket with cognac honey leather cuffs buttons and extra wide collar, matching mom, handmade, couture, black suede over knee boot

This year, Gigi and I are wear­ing the new coats I have avail­able for sale in my  A N A G R A S S I A  shop. (Read about last year’s annu­al “AUNTIE & ME” match­ing wool cash­mere coats here.) The coats are made from 100% cham­pagne wool and cognac leather. My coat (the adult style) cuffs are made from gen­uine cognac leather and Gigi’s (kid’s) cuffs are made with beige (100%) wool. Both coats are...