Crochet and Young Victoria
The weather is seasonably filthy, dark and rainy, with a few days of the same predicted, making me rather glad to have no pressing reasons to go out. I spent this afternoon trying to crochet a motif for the g-d, and watching Young Victoria. I rather enjoyed the film, especially the costumes (a nice recreation of the coronation) and Mark Strong, wearing a pair of huge evil sideburns* as the sinister adviser (hem, hem) to Victoria’s mother. It is nice to see Victoria as a young and sometimes rather silly girl, rather than a grumpy widow. It is easy to forget that she was only 18 when she came to the throne. I was intrigued to see that the rather large number of deleted scenes seemed to suggest a rather more interesting film, with a lot more about the ambitions of the queen’s governess and the unfortunate story of Lady Flora Hastings who in the film was introduced once and never seen again. Both stories would have made the film much more interesting than a the rather fluffy account of young royals in love that actually emerged. On the plus side, I was also reminded of this cartoon.
The crochet is supposed to be a double S curve shape, like the holes in a violin, intended finally as applique onto the sleeves of a jacket. I blithely assured the g-d that I could do this, but having looked at several books of motif patterns I’m beginning to wonder if it can be done, why someone hasn’t done it by now and produced a pattern.
*What my brother (a complete stranger to any sort of good taste) calls “bugger’s grips”.
The crochet is supposed to be a double S curve shape, like the holes in a violin, intended finally as applique onto the sleeves of a jacket. I blithely assured the g-d that I could do this, but having looked at several books of motif patterns I’m beginning to wonder if it can be done, why someone hasn’t done it by now and produced a pattern.
*What my brother (a complete stranger to any sort of good taste) calls “bugger’s grips”.