Category: Wonderings
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Making a dream
I found an unusual organdy tablecloth this week, with adorable flower baskets embroidered on it and a very nice lilac binding to the edge. I’ve always wanted a 30s organdy dress, so this seemed like a good opportunity to get a little way towards the dream. It’s not a lot of fabric so obviously I…
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Bodging
My mother is a bodger. I grew up watching her distress modern woodwork and fix basically anything with super glue. It’s a lost art in this world. Part of my Chronic Idea Disease is that I am drawn to the potential of an object, because I know I can mend it, tailor it, dye it,…
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How I style clothes
I sometimes get into a meditative state where I just mosey about, picking things up and touching fabrics and looking at how colours work together. I take photos so I can reference them later when I’m planning what to wear. It can be surprising, what works. It’s an experiment and I love it.
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Circular fashion
Circus is one of my tippety-top favourite aesthetics. I drool over big top stripes and tassels and sequins and feathers. I just sketched an idea for a two-piece set I want to make that’s very circus-inspired. Striped satin, red velvet, ribbons, sequins and lace. I thought I’d pop into the charity shop to have a…
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Lofty thoughts
One day this week, Phil and I were in the car at 6am. Don’t ask. I don’t remember what we were chatting about but I started thinking about nouns that are themselves a proposition: aboard, ashore and so on. It always amuses me to say ‘I am a bed’. I said, “Aloft – that’s a…
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