The last week I have spent refining my space, myself, and my goals. In the process, I decided I wanted to keep only the most cherished textiles, trims, buttons, books and magazines in my workspace. It fits with my new model, a transformation that is slowly growing within and without and is promising to be [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Tea and Textiles
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Memories, Seasons, Vintage Clothing on January 31, 2010 | 23 Comments »
Cotton History and Going Green
Posted in Clothing, Going Green, Nature, Places, Ruminating on January 30, 2010 | 17 Comments »
This book is a history book, a biography of cotton, and could possibly be read as an epic novel. I discovered it through an online quilt history list. Members of the list were praising the book for many reasons, one for the wealth of information, another for its fascinating read. I decided to purchase it [...]
Integrity and Focus
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Seasons, Vintage Clothing on January 28, 2010 | 26 Comments »
Symphony in White No. 2: The Little White Girl 1864 Whistler It has been nearly a year ago that I began this blog under this name. Jude at Spiritcloth noted me in a post, and then it seemed to be a process of growth, the blog and my own. Previously I had a blog for [...]
Old to new or up-cycling
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Vintage Clothing on January 27, 2010 | 12 Comments »
I must credit Sue from England for the term “up-cycling”. I like it because it is updated from recycling that covers so many different items in our culture. I want this term to be exclusive to clothing in this blog. This is a used sweater that I want to update. I like the fit and [...]
Hail the vintage coat
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2010 | 18 Comments »
In Melody Fortier’s book I pictured in my last post, she extols the virtues of the vintage coat. In her chapter titled ” Categories of Clothing” starting on page 29, she writes that “Vintage outerwear is definitely the best value for your dollar. The fabrics alone are usually worth more than what you pay for [...]
Musing about clothes
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Indomitable Women, Inspiration, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Vintage Clothing on January 24, 2010 | 28 Comments »
Having spent more time than usual in shops looking for something to wear to my daughter’s wedding, I had a chance to do some serious thinking about the way I dress, what is important to me, and how much that is being marketed and sold is uninspiring and uniform and dreadfully constructed. I guess what [...]
A room with a past
Posted in Inspiration, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Vintage Clothing on January 22, 2010 | 14 Comments »
At least twenty years ago I decorated this room in an old 1910 house in downtown San Diego. It seems miles away from my life as it is now in Portland, but it was a memory, a room that I still think about as magical in many ways. The house was directly under the flight [...]
Traveling home
Posted in Places on January 21, 2010 | 14 Comments »
We arrived home around 5:30 pm. Most of the trip the last two days was spent along or near the Pacific Ocean. At one point I drove in a steady and often turbulent rainstorm. After I took the photo of the ocean, I looked across the two-lane coastal highway and saw some goats with two [...]
A few wedding photos
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Jeanette is getting help from her bridesmaids with the many buttons and loops down the back of her dress. Tiny and tight, I could not even button a single one. I guess it takes young, agile fingers. The back of Jeanette’s hair done by her stepsister, Jen. A very proud mom. The bride and groom [...]
My dress
Posted in Clothing, Memories on January 13, 2010 | 8 Comments »
My dress is still not hemmed or ironed. I have put it aside to finish everything else. I am about to sit down and complete this task before I pack and head to the airport. Jeanette is quite sick with a very bad cold. I guess she has worn herself out as the sole wedding [...]
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