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Planning stages
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tattycatNote: This is not an advertisement for Hot Patterns! Honest! I just really love their patterns because zomg! They come in my size!!
I don't actually have anything vintage/historical on any of my needles at the moment, but I've been plotting away until my work schedule settled down. So here my plans for the fall/winter:
1. New work clothes. My aesthetic is heavily influenced by vintage fashionistas like esme and the lane way, but my wardrobe doesn't show this in any way. Must be time to sew!
I picked up a couple of retro-ish patterns from my favorite pattern maker (Hot Patterns). Since I mostly like skirts, I nabbed the Belle Wrap Skirt and the 70s-looks Superfly skirt. I have a couple of yards of cherry-red 21-wale corduroy for the first skirt, and a selection of denims and jerseys for the second. Mmmmm, decorative top-stitching.
For a bit of 60s flair, I got the Miss Moneypenny Pussycat blouse to make up in a soft Mod print jersey.
2. New knitting, to go along with the new work clothes. My new fave designer is Kim Hargreaves. her collection Precious has quite a few vintagey patterns, so I'm looking at making several sweaters and a couple of accessories, like berets. I will admit that I'm kind of intimidated by her focus on small needles and thin yarn; most of my work is done in worsted on size 6 needles.
The other knitting project I'm looking forward to is reverse-engineering this sweater. I'm pretty sure I don't want to do it in white-- white and I are not friends-- but everything else about it I want to keep the same. I haven't worked up a sweater from scratch before, so I suspect there will be many IMs tomsmcknittington, who is better at maths than I am.
I don't actually have anything vintage/historical on any of my needles at the moment, but I've been plotting away until my work schedule settled down. So here my plans for the fall/winter:
1. New work clothes. My aesthetic is heavily influenced by vintage fashionistas like esme and the lane way, but my wardrobe doesn't show this in any way. Must be time to sew!
I picked up a couple of retro-ish patterns from my favorite pattern maker (Hot Patterns). Since I mostly like skirts, I nabbed the Belle Wrap Skirt and the 70s-looks Superfly skirt. I have a couple of yards of cherry-red 21-wale corduroy for the first skirt, and a selection of denims and jerseys for the second. Mmmmm, decorative top-stitching.
For a bit of 60s flair, I got the Miss Moneypenny Pussycat blouse to make up in a soft Mod print jersey.
2. New knitting, to go along with the new work clothes. My new fave designer is Kim Hargreaves. her collection Precious has quite a few vintagey patterns, so I'm looking at making several sweaters and a couple of accessories, like berets. I will admit that I'm kind of intimidated by her focus on small needles and thin yarn; most of my work is done in worsted on size 6 needles.
The other knitting project I'm looking forward to is reverse-engineering this sweater. I'm pretty sure I don't want to do it in white-- white and I are not friends-- but everything else about it I want to keep the same. I haven't worked up a sweater from scratch before, so I suspect there will be many IMs to
msmcknittington, who is better at maths than I am.
