Skirts, skirts, skirts..
Nearly finished with my larger bag for heavy school books - it's starting to look rather, I don't know, expensive. Which is nice, I guess; decent finish, no loose threads or frumpy frayed edges of anything like that. And it has a tassel on it - naturally. Large and black with black seed beads covering the top of it - I do love upholstery supplies... The material used is also for upholstery - black furniture brocade, plain, slightly ribbed bottom with a diagonal satin checked pattern.
Next up are skirts. I badly need some everyday clothes, so I'll take myself by the neck and sew up a nice, fitted and flared below-the-knee skirt in my usual 30's-ish style in the floral wool crepe I salvaged from my grandmother's house cleaning a while back. I really like the cloth - it has a pattern of large, splashy anemones in dull pink, apricot, sage green, a greyish sky blue and probably some other colour I can't remember, on black bottom. It's actually rather hideous, but in a good way - it's the kind of hideousness I like. You know, when you squint at it, and you can't quite decide whether it's the most gorgeous or the most ugly thing you've ever seen, or both - you just know that you love it and want it, ugly or not. That way.
The quality is marvellous, of course, and I don't really want to know how much grandma could have spent on it - I'll just enjoy feeling very like a rich old spinster wearing the skirt.
Andreas and Liza both think that the fabric is awful, which is strange, really - they usually have such good taste, both of them, but I'm not going to bother about that, oh no!
I suspect that I'm not very good with colours - don't know if it's from lack of practice or if I was born that way, but I'd happily combine pink and red, red and purple, and I really like the way sky blue and lime green look together. I also like that floral print, as stated, although no one else seems to appreciate it.
But who cares, really? Apart from Liza, and Andreas, and possibly a lot of other people? Not me, anyway.
Will add black velvet ribbon all around the waist, to tie over the zipper.
There are also plans for another skirt in a similar model, six panels and flared from above the knees, but dipping to points at the seams, in that great polyester fabric from Kilotex - I've made a couple of skirts and a pair of harem pants in it before. It's a soft, slinky polyester that looks and, believe it or not, feels like washed silk, even when you're sweating in it. People mistake it for silk all the time. Has a very slight moiré effect to it, too, but that tends to go away when you iron it.
After that I want to do more stuff with my short tattered skirt, and the tops I modified a while ago, but that probably won't happen until Christmas, at the rate I'm going now. Damn school.
I thought this was rather sweet. Photo courtesy of Johanna, a couple of months ago.
Next up are skirts. I badly need some everyday clothes, so I'll take myself by the neck and sew up a nice, fitted and flared below-the-knee skirt in my usual 30's-ish style in the floral wool crepe I salvaged from my grandmother's house cleaning a while back. I really like the cloth - it has a pattern of large, splashy anemones in dull pink, apricot, sage green, a greyish sky blue and probably some other colour I can't remember, on black bottom. It's actually rather hideous, but in a good way - it's the kind of hideousness I like. You know, when you squint at it, and you can't quite decide whether it's the most gorgeous or the most ugly thing you've ever seen, or both - you just know that you love it and want it, ugly or not. That way.
The quality is marvellous, of course, and I don't really want to know how much grandma could have spent on it - I'll just enjoy feeling very like a rich old spinster wearing the skirt.
Andreas and Liza both think that the fabric is awful, which is strange, really - they usually have such good taste, both of them, but I'm not going to bother about that, oh no!
I suspect that I'm not very good with colours - don't know if it's from lack of practice or if I was born that way, but I'd happily combine pink and red, red and purple, and I really like the way sky blue and lime green look together. I also like that floral print, as stated, although no one else seems to appreciate it.
But who cares, really? Apart from Liza, and Andreas, and possibly a lot of other people? Not me, anyway.
Will add black velvet ribbon all around the waist, to tie over the zipper.
There are also plans for another skirt in a similar model, six panels and flared from above the knees, but dipping to points at the seams, in that great polyester fabric from Kilotex - I've made a couple of skirts and a pair of harem pants in it before. It's a soft, slinky polyester that looks and, believe it or not, feels like washed silk, even when you're sweating in it. People mistake it for silk all the time. Has a very slight moiré effect to it, too, but that tends to go away when you iron it.
After that I want to do more stuff with my short tattered skirt, and the tops I modified a while ago, but that probably won't happen until Christmas, at the rate I'm going now. Damn school.
I thought this was rather sweet. Photo courtesy of Johanna, a couple of months ago.