White, late Victorian biking sweater

You might have already seen bits of it, in the post about my white, histrybounding skirt... 

Now, here is the whole piece, because, yes, I have knitted another Bicycle Sweater, this time in white

To be honest, the red one, I've knitted a couple of years ago, was made, when I was many kg's more, and even then, what just not too big. I was thinking, if I should frog it, or what, but you know me. If something is really done, it is done. I would have a hard time with it, and I much rather make another one. 

Besides, you also know, that I have a thing for white clothes, and I wanted a white one. 

Yes, partly to wear with my white skirt. 

When I made the first one, I did read some of the patterns that is available around (some even free, some in books I own), and did my own thing.

This time, I took out my red sweater, and I changed whan I wanted to change from that one, and once again, did my own thing.

The yarn is DROPS Karisma, the white color. Not the off white, and I cannot say enough, how happy I am that DROPS offers real white shade on some of their yarns. Even if it is not optical white (see the shade compared with the skirt), but much whiter than the "natural" and the "wool-white" shade that is generally available.

I bought it last year, at one of their supersale discount, but it turned out the 700 gramms were not enough, I had to order three extra ball.

Luckily, even though the dye-lot was not the same, the color was, and you cannot see, where I had to add the new one. 

Yarn: DROPS Karisma

Needles: 2,5 mm, 3 mm

Photos: Bodeszphoto

White walking skirt

 In my attempt to build a kind of historybounding wardrobe, I wanted a skirt that mixes historical, and more modern elements. 

So, once again, I took out my favorite skirt-pattern, and used the fabric, I had leftover from the white micro-courdory bubble pants. 

Usually, I add a bit of width on the bottom of the skirt, as much as my fabric allows it, now, I had to cheat, and take off a cm here and there. However, luckily, there was a long-ish, but narrow piece that came off the side from where I cut one of the pant's leg, so I could just, just fit the pieces into.

The bits of leftovers were used for pockets and waistband.

So I can cross that piece of fabric out of my stash.

I wear the skirt with the petticoats I made earlier, and since this is historybounding, I don't even mind that the crochet lace edge peeks out. 

Fabric: I Love Textil

Pattern: Ora Lin Trumpet skirt

Pictures: My phone, modelled pictures: Bodeszphoto.

Weekly SO

I just absolutely hate what our politics and election campaign does to our country. 

I wish, we could just miss out the next 11 days, and wake up to a better world, but I am afraid, whatever side will win, one way or another we will suffer greatly. It will be no april's fool time.

That is all for today. 

Tuesday Travel

 Let's go back to London, shall we? The Victoria and Albert Museum is one of my favorite places in London. I can spend days there. 

I already mentioned, that the first thing we did in London was to go there, and pick up my membership card, and then, while we were there we were walking around a bit. We contemplated to go in there to see the Marie Antoinette exhibition (since the membership card allowed us to go back to see that one as many times as we want), but then decided against it, however, we did walk around... and of course, we've seen many things this time as well.

The thing is, if you want to see the "big picture" don't come with me into this museum, because I am going for the details...

Like the lacing on this medeival dress (on the left).

The folds on the back of this early 18th century dress...

The patterns on the Spitafield silk collection.

The shoes. 

Though the gandeur of this room did not passed me...

Even tried some memuett dance steps there :-)

Even though I do have some pocket panners, I HAD TO try on the ones they had out... 

And study the way it was made.

The amazing embroidery details...

And the shirt...

The details on the shirts...

More shoes...

Sewn stockings

I could not miss the lace, of which I've seen pictures in so many books.

And an other lace I even tried replicating, but now I faced the fact, just how small its scale is.

See the bed? What was I interested in? The embroidery pattern, of course. 

More lace...

And yet another I was familiar with, because all of the books on early lace have a picture and pattern of it.

Back to the 18th century...

And one of my favorite dresses..

I am sure it would suit me so well...

And the back of a regency dress...

There are so many things, so many small details... I just cannot get enough.

Weekly patternmuster

 I spent literally hours for a sewing pattern, only to figure out that last week I did brought a sewing one, so it would be okay to show you a knitting pattern. 

Ever since I started to scour Ravelry for stranded patterns to find that pattern, I have saved hundreds of patterns in my favorites. So there will be absolutely no problem to bring amazing stuff to show you. 

This one is open in a window on my computer ever since (for weeks, even months now), because I just love it. 

It is the Ottavia sweater.

It is colorful, and perfect for those who love dtranded knitting but just do not want to deal with long floats.

Oopsie.

The horse bolted...

I was so good, with fabric (and yarn) buying, I even started a kind of list on a separate page, making a list from the incoming and outgoing fabrics...

At the beginning of the year, I did not make any big stashbusting wow, only had this general idea of trying to use up more fabric than I buy...

And then I Love Textile brought in a kamion worth of leftover bits of fabrics from Milan. 

I only got there in the second day, so the shelves were already depleted, but I still found some stuff,

Unfortunately, though there were some really nice pieces, they all were little bits, only enough for... we'll see. 

And then while being annoyed that I could not make  a new early victorian dress, I also had some ideas, which we all know get as far as me researching the idea, even getting the fabric... and then we'll see. 

I will try to update the fabric stashbusting list, but I am afraid, I already forgot some of it... ehh.