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Trying to start a for real wedding registry so when we post on social media we can have links and Amazon is easy and ubiquitous but doesn’t actually have a lot of quality bedding and home goods.

I don’t want ten million links but I’d like to get stuff that doesn’t just wear out immediately.

An intro to SHOPAHOLIX (+ The trio)

SHOPAHOLIX takes place in a pocket dimension somewhere in between this world and the next - a liminal space that stretches onward into forever, trapping mall patrons in an inescapable series of hallways and stores. whether they succumb to natural causes, die by someone else's hand, or fatigue themselves trying to evade one of the abstractly incomprehensible monsters that roam the shops, they eventually fall...

... and find themselves waking up as something entirely different. Still themselves, but with no knowledge of their name, and spotty memory of their past life... And a few extra limbs, here and there. Maybe computer chips, or maybe fiberfill. It really all depends on the store your human self last stepped into. Whatever it may be, you'll be surprised to see that the twisted, hostile labyrinth of the mall has become the roots for a neo-society. Those monsters you were running from? Those were previous humans - you just didn't have the proper eyes to see what they were yet. The decades of humanity imprisoned in this mall have started from scratch, rebuilding a facsimile of the world they remember - one so familiar, yet so different.

Nobody ages. Nobody's ever left this place alive. None of them are even human anymore. But here they are, thriving anyway.

Satin Grimoire is the Mall's most recent arrival - a young adult who really just wanted to get his holiday shopping over and done with. He's understandably upset and confused when he wakes up from a fainting spell with horns and wings, being looked down on by an actual angel. Like it or not, he's gotta learn all the rules and social standards of this wildly isolated eldritch-purgatory culture... As if that wasn't hard enough back home.

Cotton Principality is one of the Mall's longest-standing residents at this point in time. Not that there aren't "older" Employees - just that most of them died on account of civil society not being fully formed yet. Utterly emotionless and intimidatingly level-headed, Cotton is greatly respected for their work in studying and documenting the history of the Mall and its humanoid inhabitants. Some of their storemates claim they weren't always that way...

Corduroy Keystroke is the only surviving Employee from RadioShack. Why? Well... It turns out it's pretty hard to breathe or eat when your head becomes a laptop. They aren't very compatible with human organs. If anything, she's a medical miracle - a testament to how far the Mall has come in innovating on previous human medical knowledge. It's inspired her onto her new career path - studying mechanical anatomy and physiology, so that one day she can save lives the same way hers was!

Their little social pocket is the lens through which the Mall is explored... Which is to say they're mostly conduits for worldbuilding. I've written guides to xeno physiology and cultural holidays for this Infinite Ikea homage. Send help.

Ballet dancer heaven, featuring Jenna Ortega, Fearne Cotton and the beautiful Emma Watson.

Finished the last set of curtains and had enough left over to finally make covers for the window seat (which has just been two foam blocks covered in a fitted sheet for 15 years 😅) using my best “wrapping a present neatly” techniques, knowing no one’s going to be looking that closely.

France. Moore, Cannes, Marseille.

Evening dress, c.1912.

Silk satin, silk net, silk ninon, china silk lining, cotton lining, glass beads, glass diamanté, metal sequins, metal ribbon & metal boning.

© MuseeMcCordStew

Chemise, Stays, & Panniers

c.1760-1780

Throughout the eighteenth century, the silhouette of a woman's dress was formed with a corset or a pannier. In order to push up the bust for a feminine outline, the [stays were] framed with pieces of whalebone. First appearing in the early eighteenth century, the pannier became a mandatory item for court dress up until the time of the French Revolution. As the skirt widened in the mid-eighteenth century, the pannier was modified and split into left and right halves. Such huge panniers frequently became the subject of caricatures.

Kyoto Costume Institute (AC337 77-12-51, AC7682 93-1-4, AC6289 89-4-6)

a bit of a controversial lolita opinion but i'll like.. never get used to polyester main pcs in lolita @_@

It's not the cleanest hem I've ever sewn, but it's probably the tiniest

(I'm making an 18th century fichu from the remnants of the cotton batiste I used for my Edwardian princess slip. The slip is mostly constructed, but I'm waiting for the bias to stretch out before I hem it)

Have I ranted to you lot about the person who was looking for donations of "cotton" (fabric)?

I'm like sure, I have lots of cotton fabric. What kind are you looking for? I have jersey, I have quilting cotton, etc.

Turns out that she didn't actually know much about fabric (good for her for taking on sewing projects like this anyhow), and as far as I can tell meant quilting cotton specifically. To quote: "I'm honestly not sure what you mean about woven - cotton fabrics are woven, I thought..."

And like, I get it. It's hard to learn that sort of thing. I've read multiple guides on different fabric types and still can't recognise most of them. And the fact that I'm embarrassed that I can't recognise what counts as a shirting-weight fabric, or that a fabric is chambray should help me have compassion for someone who didn't have enough, frankly rather esoteric, knowledge of fabric types to know what they didn't know.

But cotton. Have you never read the tag on a t-shirt and seen what percentage cotton it is? Of all the fibre/weave/fabric type mix ups, cotton?

I was very grown up and bought fancy bed sheets today and I have never been more comfortable in my life

Women Nightwear - Shop Kaftan Nightgown Dresses for Women Online & The Kaftan Company

tbh i think theres something to be said about the survival of traditional dresses in different regions and how some regions' traditional dresses are from the higher classes and other regions' are from the lower classes

Last chance to take pictures of this embroidery complete before it went into the hands of its new owner.

Angled the avenue dogleg so it matched with the infographic in the exhibition. Love being accurate as well as crafty!

The disheartening feeling when you bought a really nice fabric and you realise mid project it really doesn’t fit the item you are trying to make.