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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[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.