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Nicky
Maker of thingys. Lover of lace.
Slow crafting and slow living.
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The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.
Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.
Checkmate, nihilism.
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So I think I forgot to post about it here but I'm knitting my own wedding dress.
Edit to add materials: I'm using suri silk alpaca (apparently I'm slightly allergic to mohair?), and glass beads for the silvery and pearl beads.
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Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.
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Nina Simone's gorgeous white netted jumpsuit, performing in Newport, 1967. Photos in part by David Redfern/Getty and John Rudoff via Flickr.
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Pros of working with black yarn: Mistakes are harder to spot
Cons of working with black yarn: Mistakes are harder to spot
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The tartan duchess
Outfit rundown
Jacket: second-hand Atelier Boz
Dress: second-hand Juliette et Justine
Underskirt/petticoat: second-hand Black Peace Now
Shoes: old Hush Puppies
Hat: vintage with added blue flowers
High collar: second-hand Abilletage
Brooches: vintage
Gloves: vintage
Earrings: Phantom Jewelry
Rococo panniers: a gift from the designer of @british_wardrobe
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Elisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe (1860–1952) made this dress famous by posing in it for the photographer Nadar in 1896. The museum also possesses the photographs made at the time, in which the elegant countess opted for being photographed in back view so as to highlight the slimness of her waist: this close-fitting 'princess line' dress – there were no seams at waist level – and the sinuous lines of the lily plants accentuate the impression of tallness and slenderness.
One of the leading figures on the Paris social scene – not only for her rank and sovereign elegance, but also for her culture and intelligence – Comtesse Greffulhe was a significant source of inspiration for Marcel Proust, who used her as the model for the Duchesse de Guermantes in Remembrance of Things Past. She was also the cousin of Robert de Montesquiou, who drew on her for some of his poems, including a sonnet whose closing line Beau lis qui regardez avec vos pistils noirs ('Beautiful lilies gazing with your black pistils') doubtless refers to this dress. The bertha collar, whose original form was altered, certainly during its owner's lifetime, could be turned up to form bat's wings; a bat being Montesquiou's emblematic animal, making this a true dress-poem.
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BTS the Afrovictorian ensemble: the day bodice
when last we left our intrepid heroine they were trying to figure out how they wanted to use the remaining fabrics to craft the jacket/daytime bodice.
Couple of strong options but I wasn't feeling either of them particularly. Time to go shopping.
Kidding, I enjoyed the trip. Here's the new candidates.
Okay, comparing the pieces of the new pattern to the completed dinner bodice seems like we don't strictly _need_ to do a mockup... Fuck it. We're cutting the final fabric.
Good start...
Sleeve fits...
Brave, if I do say so myself
Bonus: I needed a bigger bustle.
So that's another set of head to toe looks!
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Blue Silk Faille Reception Dress, 1867
3-piece robin's-egg blue faille decorated with cream satin-stitch, tambour and french-knot embroidery, bodice having long sleeve, prong-set oval opalescent buttons; trained skirt with large embroidered repeats above the hem, deep, stiffened hem binding; small separate peplum with embroidered waistband.
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Caspar Ritter - Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, detail
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