Whine...

[liadethornegge]

I want to cut into lovely freshly-laundered fabric, and I want to sew it up into a lovely period outfit and I want to do it now!

I am imagining myself cutting into a fairly heavy smooth cotton actually - which won't be anything very period at all, but I know just how it will feel in my hands.

I have the oddest urges.

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[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

I want to make my Mary Queen of Scots Gown now! That lovely "Bailey's Liqueur" Taffata is CALLING to me!

But I'm being good and waiting till the corset and farthingale is done and THEN I can drape the doublet on my dummy and and fit the toile to me then!

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

I can feel it - I'd be slavering to get working on that too :) I'm sure it'll be a scrumptious outfit when you are done. Remember to take lots of pictures too!

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

I promise I will take piccies!

The week of the 13th to 20th March, Edmund is whisking me off to Dubai (yep in the Middle East!). I will bring my laptop and camera (the latter for taking piccies out there) and download cossie piccies and spend a nice relaxing time creating new pages and updating the old pages on my website!

Promise! I won't have anything else to do!!!!!

[peronel.livejournal.com]

Webpage stuff is a great thing to do on the plane. Kills the time admirably.

Have fun in Dubai!!

[peronel.livejournal.com]

I really can empathise. I'm currently in America, visiting a friend, and I'm trying to resist the urge to get her to drive me to the fabric store to get linen. I don't need linen, and I'm on holiday, so really shouldn't be sewing. But linen isn't a need thing - right now I want to stroke the fabric and cut the fabric and make neat run and fell seams. Mmmmm.

How sad am I?

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

I am thinking of getting some more of that gorgeous red linen I had for my corset lining and farthingale. I want some for a new petticoat to go over my farthingale!

Should I line it????

[peronel.livejournal.com]

From memory, it's very light weight, so I would.

If you're careful, you could make it reversible. Nice :)

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Goody - you're online!!!!

Line it with itself??? Or perhaps a contrasting linen? I assume line with linen?

BTW - I've sent you a link that enables you and me to track the wool! Its due to arrive on the 9th Feb!

And the brown linen from them is gorgeous! Even better quality (though a tinsy bit heavier in weight/thicker) than my red!

[peronel.livejournal.com]

I got the link, and I'll let you know the minute it arrives.

I'm drooling over the brown linen, but I don't need it. Although I could line my brown wool in it. Hmmm. I'd buy some of their white, but I have no way of knowing the quality til it comes - you can only really pick fabric with your hands, after all.

The petticoat... I wouldn't bother lining it with itself, I don't think. But a contrasting linen so you can reverse it would be nice (perhaps that brown, even?).

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Nice thought! It would be good underneath a peasy then! Haven't ordered any of it though - just that swatch!

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Mmm... stroke well-pressed, laundered linen. That feel is unbeatable, isn't it?

Dear lord, we are such strange perverts :P

[peronel.livejournal.com]

I think I'd go with addicts, not perverts, but yeah ;)

My friend says I can spot linen at fifty paces. She goes clothes shopping with me and, within seconds, I home in on the one linen item in the shop. Like a dog with a bone.

I'm seriously thinking about making myself some linen sheets, just because. Wonderful stuff ;)

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

I adore the feel of different fabrics - especially the natural ones!
Silks, satins and velvets just feel luxurious.
Linen is cool and "practical". Yet its as fluid as a lovely silk!

I was feeling what I think was a charmeuse silk on the weekend. It was lovely! Wish it had been in a nice delicate soft dusky pink or a soft lavender/wedgewood/powder blue! I'd LOVE to make a nice bias cut 1930s style dress from it! Unfortunately, it was in a primrose yellow - beautiful BUT not suitable for my colour. I CANNOT wear yellow!

Oooooh! Let me loose in a fabric shop!!!!!!!

[peronel.livejournal.com]

tell me about it. I bought 7.5 yards of red silk dupion the other day, just because it was there. Similar to yours, Bess, but lighter weight. The friend I'm visiting says the colour looks stunning on me, but mostly I bought it because it felt lovely.

The linen I'm coveting is densely woven and almost nubby. So soft. Medium weight. The downside is it's relatively expensive. So I shouldn't really buy it.

But it's gorgeous. Mmmm. Linen.

[peronel.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, and a followup...

Is it just me that likes looking at the nice rows of linens in the wardrobe? What with my shifts, and my other half's shirts, there are half a dozen or so hand-sewn linen things there. I like looking at them - it's comforting and homely, somehow, rather like having homemade soup in the kitchen.

Hmmm. Perhaps you were right with perverts.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Hee.. Well, I don't have enough outfits to do that, nor do I have closet space to hang them up in.
I am, however, looking forward to the time when I will have that sort of a period wardrobe to fondle. I have been known to go on and on about my sewing to dorm-mates who does not have the least bit of interest in it, I'm sure :)

[peronel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can bore for England on fabric, too. I only hang up the shifts in the regular closet - everything else is folded away in boxes under the stairs. But the shifts need to be accessible, because I sleep in them all year round.

Uhhh, okay, I am a freak.

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

I had a LOVELY linen shirt when I was in the kitchen over michelmas cos I lost my "new" working woman's smock. The linen one was Edmund's - but I think he has managed to lose it to me!!!!

It was SO comfy to wear whilst working!!!! Nicer than the fine cotton ones I have for Gentry!

[peronel.livejournal.com]

I remember that shirt. Really light weight.

Having worn linen, I can't understand why anyone would wear cotton. Sure, it's cheaper, but linen is soooo much nicer.

Okay, I have to go buy this linen just so I can stroke it. :)