Denim Jacket
c.1850
United States
This jacket would have been worn over a woman’s work dress or blouse, most likely while she labored outdoors. Its construction mimics the fashionable hourglass silhouette of the period, with tucks that cinch at the wrists and natural waistline. Denim is typically thought of as a menswear textile, but it was also common in women’s workwear during the 19th century.
Museum at FIT (Object number: P87.43.3)
nah because why do edwardian motor dusters go so hard. the VEIL??
THE GOGGLES
Knit Up a Bunch of These Radiant Woven Stars With a FREE Pattern From The Fabulous Frankie Brown! 👉 https://buff.ly/38Inwwi
Oscar de la Renta: 'Crafted like a mosaic, discover the making-of the #odlrfall2024 stained glass gown — ushering in a a new House-signature embroidery technique.'
Constructed from hundreds of polyamide panes, hand-sewn together in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Tiffany glass. Ready-to-wear: £36,546.
New head wrap for my folk costume just dropped!
It’s an old table cloth, but it’s perfect!
In. LOVE. With this! I can’t wait to wear it once it cools down more!! I used tuteate‘s super braided cowl tutorial to help make this! If you guys do loom knit and haven’t checked them out yet, please do so! They’ve got some amazing tutorials that are easy to follow along!
I am tempted to make it in a different color. 😩
Enjoy!!
Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."
So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.
And also...
My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.
It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.
So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!
And I really am feeling very good about doing it.
Whoa this blew up a lil' bit huh! I've been so happy reading the notes and seeing other people's similar stories and such. And I've received some very sweet messages about this too. Thank you so much! <3 Crafting is such a bonding experience--across families, with those who've passed, just in general a very communal thing. I'm happy if my post brought some nice feelings to people's days, too.
I come bearing a small update! I have completed three of the eight squares I picked to make and just started a fourth. Here’s what the project looks like so far:
(Why yes I did stand on my bed to take this photo.)
The squares are in big need of blocking to get 'em to a uniform size, of course, but this is what we’ve got! Mine are the one at top right and the middle two in the second row.
My coworker told me her mother especially liked to make blankets featuring a popcorn/bobble stitch, but I didn’t find any squares like that among those she’d made for this project, so that’s why I chose to make the one to the left of the book. <3 Otherwise, it seems like she picked a mix of squares with cables and not, with graphic motifs versus repeating textures, so I chose mine to reflect that and have decided on a layout that I hope shows off the variety.
Apparently Mom's usual blankets were knitted all in one piece; coworker said she’d never seen her make a square sampler like this. Meanwhile samplers are MY favorite kind to make, so I’ve been having a lot of fun.
Oh! And I wanted to share this, because a few people in the notes have done so: If you're a crafter and want to help out finishing people's projects, or you have a project you'd like to see finished but can't work on yourself, try checking out Loose Ends! It's a volunteer program where you can submit projects that need finishing or sign up to be a finisher. They match volunteers with submitted projects based on location and other factors. It looks really fun and, like I said up there, a great way to connect with people through crafting.
‘Nother small update, I showed my coworker some progress photos and she immediately zeroed in on that one square with the popcorn stitches. She said she recognized that one because her mom had once made an entire blanket like that (as in, not in separate squares, she repeated that pattern across a whole blanket’s width).
I told her why I chose that square, like I told you guys up there, and she said she was so glad she gave her mom’s stuff to me because I’m “making sure her work is finished beautifully.” Ahhh, my heart, it grows.
(Also! I’m on the last of my eight squares! And then I have to put them together, which is less fun than making them, but I’ll do my best!)
@noirandchocolate is this tue booklet?
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/leisure-arts-leaflet-932-60-easy-to-knit-pattern-stitches-combine-to-create-sampler-afghans
YES!! And cool, it looks like it CAN still be bought! That’s good news, thanks so much for finding it in case anybody else wants to check it out!
Aaaaaand I have a big update tonight! All the squares are DONE!!
You can compare the final layout to what is posted up there to find my squares. :D
I had to fix the crochet borders on several of Coworker’s Mom’s because they didn’t have a uniform 48 stitches per side as called for in the pattern book, but now that’s taken care of, I can start…
ASSEMBLING.
IT IS COMPLETED.
For more photos and a little more info, I’ve made a new post here!
My Coworker’s Mom’s blanket is complete!
My squares are, from top to bottom: 4th on row 1, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th on row 2, 1st & 2nd on row 4, and 1st & 2nd on row 5. All the rest are CMom’s. When choosing the squares I’d do, I picked a mix of graphic ones (the trees), cables, openwork/lace and textured patterns, to go with the ones CMom made.
Once all my squares were done, I made sure all 20 had crocheted borders with the same number of stitches per side and then crocheted them all together. Finally, I put on one of my favorite blanket borders: one wrong-side row of half-double crochet (so the ‘extra’ bar of the stitches ends up on the right-side), and one right-side row of {backward single crochet+chain two+skip one} repeated. I love borders with backward crochet stitches; I think they make things look so ‘finished’ on the edges.
So, hopefully there will be a day soon when Coworker and I are at the office at the same time (rare) so I can show her these photos and set up when I can give this to her. <3 I really enjoyed completing her Mom’s final creation and I hope she’ll think I did it justice!
Thanks to everybody on my original post about this who encouraged me and sent kind messages. I didn’t expect this to attract attention like it has and I’ve had fun reading other people’s similar stories. As I said in the reblog chains on that post, crafting really brings people together! So hey, all you knitters, crocheters, and other assorted fiber-craft creators—hope you’re having a great time with your projects!
I share my sewing wins on here, seems only right I should share my sewing moments of humiliation:
yesterday I accidentally sewed a greggs vegan sausage roll into the lining of a winter coat whilst mending the pockets
my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk
our sick deranged enemy polyester....
the demon lord, prince of lies, "Vegan Leather"...
16 frame shooting star animation. January 2022-September 2024 Needlepoint
Frames from my shooting star gif. 16 frames total. Each frame is 8x6.5 inches on a 10” mesh. Designed and animated in photoshop and needlepointed by me. I started drafting this 1/14/22 and finished animating it 9/25/24. It took approximately two years and eight months to finish. This is one of the largest projects I’ve ever worked on and I’m very happy with how it turned out.
Little lace sculptures, the latest in lace fashion!
Robert Wun | Fall/Winter 2024 Couture
if anyone's wondering why i haven't been craftposting lately it's because i've been chipping away at a tv color bar blanket:
just 75% of the blanket to go lmao
important QA testing going on
haven't gotten as much done in the last month as I wanted but progress pic anyway! I'm just over 1/3 of the way through
2/3 of the way done and the long bars are COMPLETE! it's time for the next section of colors!
done with this mercifully short section! into the home stretch with 75% of the blanket done and moving on to the last color section
FINALLY
