I finished the skirt late Friday afternoon, and silly me, after it was done, I was thinking how great this would have looked on Vanessa Bell with a paintbrush in hand and a canvas in front of her or Virginia Woolf seated at her desk, pen in hand, writing her journal or finishing the [...]
Archive for the ‘Clothing’ Category
A skirt
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Fabric, Nature, Places, Seasons on March 1, 2010 | 29 Comments »
The textile wastebasket
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Fabric, Going Green, Ruminating on February 26, 2010 | 27 Comments »
This morning, as an experiment, I decided to select some of my most prized colorful silks and velvets and throw them in the waste basket just to see how it felt to be nonchalant and indifferent. What prompted this exercise was an article I read yesterday afternoon in a publication that is delivered to [...]
The Silk Skirt
Posted in Clothing, Fabric, Indomitable Women, Inspiration, Memories, Places on February 25, 2010 | 18 Comments »
I am not a huge fan of flying. I have had this fear ever since I can remember. However, once the plane is steadied and I look around and see people relaxing, then I begin to relax and enjoy the mental space. My habit is to pick up a book and read [...]
Cutting out the skirt
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Cats, Clothing, Going Green on February 10, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Please excuse me, but this is the most uninspiring photo that I have posted in some time. It is akin to watching the grass grow. I wanted to show you the layout of this skirt, how it is cut crosswise. It seemed the perfect pattern to accentuate the throw and its jacquard [...]
Sorting and Integrating
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Inspiration, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Vintage Clothing, Vintage Hats on February 2, 2010 | 21 Comments »
On my early morning walks, I have become accustom to listening to audio books. I was finding that I was not working through and reading the list of books I perpetually use as a guide, so I decided to borrow some audio books from the library. This morning, I finished listening to Azar [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
