Something Grey
The weather has turned decidedly grey, autumn's colours are fading, the days are darker and things are feeling a little more wintery.
I have a winter's bag for you, in a charcoal wool fabric, lined with red satin (well we all need a bit of boudoir red in our lives on these cold, dark days!).
I made up a simple pattern based on a bag I loved in the Toast catalogue. I love most things in the Toast catalogue, but as usual my taste does not suit my pocket. It has not turned out as I hoped, of course the obvious difference is the lack of butter soft vintage looking leather, but the other problem is that I used too stiff an interfacing. I made the decision based on past experience of all too often making a bag with too soft an interface but once this was completed I knew that I wanted it softer, perhaps a lighter interlining and a layer of batting for a more squashy, casual look. So, I must make another but in the meantime, I do quite like this one and as I may have mentioned before, I do have a bag fettish, so there it is no great hardship to make another.
I have several finished to knits to share but lack of light and photographic assistance is delaying the show. I will show you my latest project though, felted tweed and this Jolien pattern from Rowan Studio 3, gorgeous finished example here. I see myself wearing this with long tweedy, wide legged trousers, in my head I look all Katherine Hepburnish but in reality I am probably considerably shorter and wider than Katherine and without those sharp cheekbones. Still, I will wear it as I envisage and I will talk in Katherine style clipped vowels and wear eyeliner and pillar box red lipstick.
The weather has turned decidedly grey, autumn's colours are fading, the days are darker and things are feeling a little more wintery.
I have a winter's bag for you, in a charcoal wool fabric, lined with red satin (well we all need a bit of boudoir red in our lives on these cold, dark days!).
I made up a simple pattern based on a bag I loved in the Toast catalogue. I love most things in the Toast catalogue, but as usual my taste does not suit my pocket. It has not turned out as I hoped, of course the obvious difference is the lack of butter soft vintage looking leather, but the other problem is that I used too stiff an interfacing. I made the decision based on past experience of all too often making a bag with too soft an interface but once this was completed I knew that I wanted it softer, perhaps a lighter interlining and a layer of batting for a more squashy, casual look. So, I must make another but in the meantime, I do quite like this one and as I may have mentioned before, I do have a bag fettish, so there it is no great hardship to make another.
I have several finished to knits to share but lack of light and photographic assistance is delaying the show. I will show you my latest project though, felted tweed and this Jolien pattern from Rowan Studio 3, gorgeous finished example here. I see myself wearing this with long tweedy, wide legged trousers, in my head I look all Katherine Hepburnish but in reality I am probably considerably shorter and wider than Katherine and without those sharp cheekbones. Still, I will wear it as I envisage and I will talk in Katherine style clipped vowels and wear eyeliner and pillar box red lipstick.
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