In which I am looking at amazing stuff I find for sale on the Internet.
Like this 19th century skate in perfect condition.
It should be in a museum, I think.
In which I am looking at amazing stuff I find for sale on the Internet.
Like this 19th century skate in perfect condition.
It should be in a museum, I think.
This is also something I wanted to knit for ages, I bought the yarn years ago, even before I made my Outlander outfit.
I even decided to start it and gone as far as taking out the yarn and print the pattern several times, but honestly, the pattern just confused me.
Yes, I can see from the stills of the TV show the way the ridges of the garter stitch go, but I thought it is unnecessarily complicated way of knitting a shawl.
This year, we were having an event in Sirok, where the last two times we have been there for the March 15th celebrations, the weather was COLD, I thought, high time a pattern just cannot get the better of me.
I sat down and started.
Last week I managed to mix up the English and the Hungarian translations of the same post and nobody told me, I only realized like two days later, when I -of course- promptly switched them, but it does make me wonder, if anybody reads these...
Yet here I am with another of these.
I hate all those videos/reels that keeps telling me what and how to dress, wear my hair, etc, so it would not age me.
For god sake, I am past fifty, I have silver hair. NOTHING I wear would make me younger. I would be still past fifty, still silver haired and somewhat overweight, even if I only tuck half of a shirt in the waist of my pants.
Why can't I enjoy my life, without being reminded ever darn second, that I should scramble to LOOK younger?
That reminds me of the Facebook meme:
Before we get into the pattern "review", I have a question about this series. I've started this series with knitting patterns, but what about sewing patterns? There are so many around, online, often from indie designers, would you like me pick a some here and there and show them to you? Since I have not made them yet, these are NOT full reviews, nor do I think, that just because I don't like something they are not good in themselves. With that...
This week's pattern also comes from Ravelry's hot right now list.
It is the Nordic Bloom West by Caitlin Hunter.
The good thing about being multicraftual, is that when you get stuck with one, you can still occupy your hands with something else.
At the beginning of this year, I felt stuck with many things in my life, and sewing was one of them.
I still got fabrics, and I still had plans, I even bought some patterns, but i just could not get myself to sit down and atually sew.
(That is why I knitted more than in the last few years, because with knitting - I felt- at least I felt more or less confident I cannot mess it up, if it is ugly, it can always be frogged).
So I thought, I might start back again with something simple.
A cape.
Capes are wonderful. Capes are timeless. They make you feel almost instantly transported in time, they make you feel magical. I wish, we could wear capes every day.
Yes, I already have one, an end-of-the-18th century, red cape (though I did wear it with earlier period clothes), but I always wanted something less bright. Whenever I wore my blue medieval dress, or my green renaissance dress, I felt, I need to borrow Norbert's green dress, so the bright red would not clash.
I had this petrol-ish blue wool fabric for years, I did bought it to make a cape, so I thought, it is high time I actually make it.
Sewing it is actually not difficult, my fabric was 150 cm wide, I folded it, so I could cut a half circle out of it.
In which I am musing about things I find about stuff I find for sale on the net.
Look at this pair of two toned Victorian boots.
Aren't they absolutely gorgeous?
I would certainly wear it even today, and not only for historical clothes.
It is amazing that they were kept in such a good condition.