Beady
These would've been posted sooner but my computer's power supply took the big dirt nap last week and I couldn't replace it until I got a paycheck. The copper coils inside the old one have potential for much plotting of evil--muhuhahahaaaa!
The first one is the ubiquitous Victorian Miser's Purse. Based on an 1870s pattern. Crocheted silk with beads, 2 1/4" x 11", short pieces of copper pipe instead of the usual nickel rings, crocheted of very fine silk at 16 stitches per inch and dyed with strong tea to sort of age it up a bit. The monogram is made using Eduardo Recife's font "Nasty." I wanted something that was both excessively florid and a little messy, sort of like the crocheter has gone off the deep end because she insists on working with itty-bitty silk thread by gaslamp. I had fully intended on putting coins in one side and paper money in the other but the thought of fishing out wadded-up cash while the bus driver glowered at me was a bit too much to contemplate. So pennies & nickels in one side and the other coins in the other.
Mitts made by combining two knitting patterns from the 1880s Weldon's pamphlets, "knitted and beaded cuffs, much appreciated by old ladies" and a ladies' silk mitt. Knitted from cotton/ramie unravelled from a thriftstore sweater and size 8/0 silver-tone beads.
I had intended on posting the patterns to these on my pattern blog but since I'm on a lousy dial-up and the wind appears to be blowing in the wrong direction I can't get squat to upload to Blogger. I'll post the link in a couple days.
The first one is the ubiquitous Victorian Miser's Purse. Based on an 1870s pattern. Crocheted silk with beads, 2 1/4" x 11", short pieces of copper pipe instead of the usual nickel rings, crocheted of very fine silk at 16 stitches per inch and dyed with strong tea to sort of age it up a bit. The monogram is made using Eduardo Recife's font "Nasty." I wanted something that was both excessively florid and a little messy, sort of like the crocheter has gone off the deep end because she insists on working with itty-bitty silk thread by gaslamp. I had fully intended on putting coins in one side and paper money in the other but the thought of fishing out wadded-up cash while the bus driver glowered at me was a bit too much to contemplate. So pennies & nickels in one side and the other coins in the other.
Mitts made by combining two knitting patterns from the 1880s Weldon's pamphlets, "knitted and beaded cuffs, much appreciated by old ladies" and a ladies' silk mitt. Knitted from cotton/ramie unravelled from a thriftstore sweater and size 8/0 silver-tone beads.
I had intended on posting the patterns to these on my pattern blog but since I'm on a lousy dial-up and the wind appears to be blowing in the wrong direction I can't get squat to upload to Blogger. I'll post the link in a couple days.