Quarter-life crisis but make it ✨fashion✨
Social media mage by day, and nerd of many fandoms by night, I’m a lady of many interests. From fighting for a more inclusive Jane Austen community, to ignoring my TBR pile, I’m always ready for my next nerdy project. On weekends I can be found lightsaber fighting or slowly learning to use my new rapier.
What you'll find on this channel: my DIYs, Regency fun and maybe some lightsaber/sword practices.
More about me: I work professionally in social media, mostly in brand marketing and around audience engagement. I love talking about the weird and wonderful world of social media, so if you need my assistance for your brand, or are just looking for a mentor to help you figure out your career trajectory, feel free to reach out.
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I’d like to put it here in case anyone’s curious, here’s my list of the craft thrift stores in Texas (that I’m aware of): Austin Creative Reuse (Austin… duh) Spare Parts Center for Creative Reuse (San Antonio) Thistle Creative Reuse (Denton) Texas Art Asylum (Houston) I’ve only been to the Austin and Houston ones but I’m so in love with craft thrift stores and wanted to spread the word!
Contrasting thread is fabulous. It can replace different types of trim on garments, adding a decorative touch without extra work.
Thanks for sharing your tips! Thrift stores are my go-to. Different ones put crafty and sewing stuff in different areas, so I usually look around the whole store. Library book sales can be a good place for books on crafting or inspiration. Hoping to get to Legacy soon--it would be a fun day trip for us: I need some creative inspo and items to reuse/repurpose an old baby quilt top my paternal grandma made when I was a baby, and it would hopefully inspire my daughter to restart a hobby.
Libraries are for sure a great resource! That’s a great tip. I hope you enjoy The Legacy. Every day it can have vastly different stock.
Thank you for telling me about The Legacy! I stopped by their last month when I was on vacation and loved it! I had serious stimulation overload and couldn't focus on trims but I had a wonderful time digging all the leather scraps!❤
That is so awesome! It was definitely overwhelming the first time I went in, but at least they have some organization system. That helps a bit.
Wawak has a Canadian site! I asked for things from there for my birthday! It’s wonderful! I’ve had good luck over the years at thrift stores. Material, notions, patterns and books. I try to avoid my local store because I have a problem staying on target! When I do hit my local fabric store I try to pick up a big spool of black and white thread. If I want a matching thread I can usually get into look at thread without looking at a fabric…. Some times the marked down area or sales get me thought. My stash keeps growing as I’ve found some really nice fabric at the thrift store lately!
Sometimes the thrift store stash is just too good to pass up.
Sometimes I have had luck with shopping the home decor section at thrift stores with a mind to reuse. Curtains and bedlinens can be repurposed into yardage for garments. Once I found a set of 5 silk satin window draperies for $10.
Those are great tips!! Thank you.
Wawak is fantastic.
They are sooo good.
I love your blouse. I have wanted to try bobbin lace for decades, but it always looked so complicated. Your title attracted me to this video. Thank you for making bobbin lace look so accessible!
Thank you! I hope you try it out.
Omg I have to make one.
Do it!
I have been thinking of trying this for a while. Well done you!
I hope you try it out!
Great video! Thanks for this!
Glad you liked it!
I agree about not romanticising the past. Every time my mother tries to tell someone I was born in the wrong century, I flat out tell her and whoever she tried to tell, "No, thank you, I prefer corrective eyewear, birth control and some modicum of bodily autonomy, please." She just rolls her eyes.
Good for you! It’s so weird to hear people say they’re born in the wrong time. I do not get it.
I don't know if you'll see this since this is a two year old video, but I taught History of Clothing for many years and although I didn't have the power to change the name of the class, I told my students that it was history of western clothing. As I see it, there are a couple of issues, one being that in the structure of one 3-unit course, it's not possible to teach the entire history of fashion, including western and non-western fashion. I could barely cover my material as it was. The other issue, which absolutely needs to be addressed is focusing on the primacy of western fashion. There could be different ways to do this, one being splitting history of fashion into two or three classes, so that nobody is trying to cover dress from all cultures from ancient history to modern day in one 3-unit class. I think this would be best, rather than separating western fashion and non-western fashion into different classes. What I tried to do in my class, even though it focused on western fashion, was to show how western fashion was shaped and influenced by other cultures and also the affect of western imperialism (and also somewhat more benign trade and travel) had on non-western dress; in other words, to show the connections between non-western dress and western dress, of which there were and are so many. I also showed cultural appropriation and talked about what it meant. So even though the class focused on western fashion, I showed that it didn't exist in a vacuum. I also assigned research papers on non-western dress, so that my students could spend some time focusing on some aspect of it. Was it enough? Of course not. But at least it was a step in the right direction, and as much as I had power to do in the structure in which I was working.
I appreciate your thoughts on this! Your efforts to try to make do with your course sound like great moves to try to make a course go beyond what the standard textbooks do. I feel like many of us would gladly take a 2-3 part course on fashion history!
Yes to "your favorite Darcy" not being a debatable point!! My favorite movie is The Crow. Yes it's not good. No I don't care. It's MY favorite lol
People can have favorites! It’s what makes us unique. Idk why folks get so upset about it.
P&P has been a syllabus staple for English teenagers for generations, and that's the perfect time to start learning that people and relationships are complex. Time is an illusion. Probably. Don't do the calculations.
Time is definitely an illusion.
14:23 is a perfect example of how the 2005 film was so amazing at composing scenes. I don't know if it's considered cinematography, but so many of the scenes look like they came straight out of paintings
Yes, there’s some really stunning compositions that make this movie look like a romantic portrait or landscape.
Matthew Macfadyen will always be my favorite Darcy. I was just at the right age to fall in love with him when the 2005 film came out! Seeing him in Succession gave me some serious whiplash 😅 Colin Firth will always be Mr. Mark Darcy from Bridget Jones for me. He had this iconic line: "I like you. Exactly as you are." And that line will always make me swoon 😄
I haven’t been able to watch Succession because I can’t cope!
I’m so excited for this!!!!!
Thank you!!!
That's my fav series! :>
Yay! It’s great isn’t it?
Free patern???? Were can i find that?? ? Love to read❤
Just type "Patterns by Mood Bridgerton" and you'll find it !
Mood!
Hi there! Im tempted to buy it but afraid it wont cover what i need in particular, like does it also shows patterns for denim shorts and how to make them baggy (like jorts) or something like that? Im focused on avant-garde/streetwear garments. Thank you in advance :)
Hey there! It won’t show you your specific design idea but it will show you how to expand patterns and alter them to get what you want.
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cool story sis
I'm glad you like it
I’m jealous! That looks like an awesome place!
It really is!
Oh My GOSH!!! What a fabulous place to have as a supply resource!!!!🥰😍😍
Okay so 10th kingdom was by far my favourite movie as a child I just didn’t understand why I liked Virginia so much… after coming out I get it 😂😂
Hey! That rocks as a revelation.
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You know if you interact with my stuff it’s just gonna show up more, right?
If you don't like the video then just scroll down. Never come with such 'lame' comments.
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this looks so cool good job !
Thanks!
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Wow looks wonderful! Are you going to share how you did this?
Yes! Soon!
Thank you so much for this video! It's such a helpful resource and motivation for those of us interested in taking up this hobby. I will refer to this video some more in the future. <3
Glad it was helpful!
Do I have anywhere to wear a witches hat? No. Do I still want one? YES!
That’s the spirit!
He wasn't my sexual awakening, but he was definitely one of the better romantic role models that absolutely had an impact on the kind of men I prefer
Totally.
I tried bobbin lace about 18 years ago and there was no KZread! I failed hard. I’ve been contenting myself with crochet lace but now YT has been showing me bobbin lace and I’m going to try again 😂
You got this!
I am also trying to build an Edwardian wardrobe ❤❤❤
Oooo nice! Good luck.
I love love love thrifting my sewing supplies, especially fabric BUT lately my local Goodwill has gone off the rails and has single patterns for $9.99 and twin sheets for $8-12. 😮I might as well buy at the regular stores. lol
Good Will keeps getting worse and worse with pricing
I hear you and given that my Joanns always has one cashier and 10 people in line almost everytime I'm there it behooves me to have a supply in my sewing room of thread. 😊If only to avoid wasting time AND being one less person that poor cashier has to deal with.
It’s the small steps!
just a observance, wouldn't a dark background be better when you are using white thread for the lace? I was thinking it would to, be easy to pin a black material around the pillow or other fabrics to help seeing the thread. I also have seen Galicia Bee Designs here on you tube, and I am considering trying this . I spend a lot of time indoors since I have M.S. so this might be good for me on a few levels.
Lots of folks use a dark blue as it’s apparently gentler on the eyes
Looks like a combination of ribbon lace and needle lace! Very nice
Thank you! 😊
I just found your channel today and I feel a Book hoarding by Bianca "Brambley Hedge' binge is in the future...........like now!!! I can't wait to see more of Brambley Hedge related fun. I am a huge fan of the books and I am sure I am going to love your channel.Thank You for posting this.❤
Welcome!!
Welcome!!
Excellent video. Terrifically explained and great tips to!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for all the costuming options for men! Frank always looks fantastic so it's great to see how he chooses his pieces ❤
You are so welcome!
As some of the most beautuful historical examples admired by You and also shown in this video, weren't bobbinlace at all, and also couldn't be produced in this technique, and you also seem to be extremely quick in understanding and learning handcraft techniques, it's definitely time for the next step: learning how to do Needlelace! This even more so, as by doing bobbin lace and other textile work, You already should have almost all materials needed. And no, different than sometimes written or thought, making needle lace isn't a big or even 'forgotten' secret. It's actually pretty simple, as it consists mainly of about half a dozen stitches, all based on buttonholestitching, so it's really easy to learn, at least if You follow the line of the historic development if thus technique, first doing to do rather simple Reticella-Lace, and then slowly trying some if the more elaborate 'filled in" Point de Venise, Point de neige or the "combined" ones like Allencon lace, where You combine the rather dense classical 'italian' needlelace with a tull ground, which in this case is done by needlework too, but rather resembles bobbin lace techniques and is one of the few needlelace stitches nit deriving from the buttonwhole stich...and yes it gives on, as You already know how to make bobbin lace, you simply could use denser needlelace pieces, surrounding them by bobbin lace tull, or like in Chantilly lace, try to reproduce needlemade Alencon lace in bobbinlace techniques, which is in my opinion a bit unpractical and not too straight approach, but, like Irish crochet lace, wich more if less tried the same un a complete different technique, nonetheless was done...or You can 'cheat' like the Florentines, simply using a tull ground and embroider your lacepattern on...much easier and much less time consuming, and a critical inovation on the way to machine produced lace, before chemical lacemaking and digital laceprinting was invented. Or you can do like the people in Brussels, who somehow tend to combine almost all techniques from very simple woven bands over notted edges, Retucella, Tull, needle and bobbin lace to embroidery in one single piece of 'combined Bruxelles", the only things missing being crochet and the ominous occhi, wich - strangely enough - also seems to be the only lacemaking technique almost exclusively developed and used by bored nobels and the rich bourgeoisie, never taking real hold within those broader parts of society of the fortunate ones, who normally would produce lace for the rich and superrich...It's almost like a travesty, where the rich and mighty dressed in layers and layers of extremely labourous 'real' lace, suddenly got bored and decided to invent something much less difficult and a bit too repetetive and mechanic, where not the result, but the pure luxury of having the time to do something completely useless with the outmost precious items was the whole matter. Things going so far, that well off ladies simply pretend to do occhi, by simply moving around the little items without even using any yarn and therefore quite literally moving around the air...so it's no wonder occhi also are known as frivolité, simply because producing them pretty much was nothing than to show off to others you are so rich, that you dont have to waste Your time to produce anything useful or if ecconomic interest, by producing pretty much stirred air...Funny enough this strange distinction behaviour was imitated very fast by some other 'ladys', who always wanted to be more than they actually were, as this was and is the best tactic to attract Ruch 'customers' - this even more establishing the 'frivoulous' name and (in)fame if the occhi, even more so, as those ladues' seen to be the inky ones, really wearing and using them in a big way not only as supplement for the much more expensive and difficult to produce 'real' stuff, but also as some kind if business trademark...So, if there are still bigger stacks if occhi in Your family heirloom or even someone is still producing them, may ask twice, why and how this came and if modern day producers and users are still aware ofstrange and frivol background history and hidden sub-message(s) of this very 'special' kind of lace...And if so...if they also know such funny stories from the late 19th and early 20th century, when the 'rich' Parisian courtesans and 'madames' of the second and third rank drove home to their rural villages of origin in Normandy or the Bretagne, visiting their relatives, building little Parisian styled "hotels" and "chateaus" in the middle of nowhere, spending huge amounts of money for schools and other social institutions and beeping pretty much a highly respected part if the local gentry, wearing tins and tons of occhi lace while sitting in the first row in church beside the local manor and nobility during sunday church services, making becoming a prostitute a highly respectable and admired choice for young women (and more often than not young men too...), offering a much more prosperous, interesting and independent way of living than a live as little farmer, tenant or handyman or -woman in a remote village in the French countryside ever could offer...And yes, it were pretty much those occhi wearing 'madams' who started the French tourism industry at the seas, making their rich and unfluencial customers to built nice little holiday villas next to their own ones, including the establishing of direct railway lines between Paris and the new seaside bathing towns...Funny enough, the women of this customers often remained in their luxurious town residences in Paris, producing their own occhi and more often than not welcomming in perfect consent with their 'absent' husband, the handsome young son, cousin or nephew of one of the madames, so everything kept pretty much in the family...And no, no reasonable French human being would have thought that there would have been (and in pretty many happy marriages still is...) anything wrong if inappropriate in this kind if 'arrangements'...It's a very different world, with very different rules and values compared to the puritan misery of Britain if the US...And it's all part of the, not always so obvious and very 'delicate' history of lace, who always united beauty and cruelty, purity and sex and extremevpiverty and unbelievable wealth in a very direct, holyness and the not so holy in an often highly unconventional, spectacular and highly ambivalent and unique way, where every stich and knot had its own message and produced its own story, often hiding but even more reveling the true and otherwise often invisible nature of men, by binding, knotting, sewing and stiching together both, tangible webs and social nets in the most interesting, beautiful, unexpected and sometimes very strange and contradictional, controversial and contraintuitive but always spectacular way, done in a way, which is so far away from our modern neoliberal and highly ideologized morals and ideas, doing lacemaking and studying thebhustory if this century old craft sometimes feels like some kind of subversive cultural criticism and counter-model to our very much overregulated and incredibly rigid, overoptimized and therefore pretty depressing, colourless and boring modern life, where lace only seem to exist on as cheap, meaningless and undangerous copy and shadow of itself and the real stuff is banned to museums or marginalized as an slightly eccentric hobby without further meaning or social consequences - at least until noone asks any questions or knows, what he sees and does, or, God beware, tries to re-establish the real stuff instead it's mass produced industrial counterpart, and be it only a piece of occhi on a side table or an incredible precious and rare inherited antique bridal veil or tablecloth consisting of completely handmade lace, and beeping even more costly and distinctive than the tiara above...It's a strange obsession and power, made out purely from humble materials, human time, ingenuity, passion, and the strange beauty of a thing that is pretty much of no practical use, beside the strange ability to make otherwise invisible things like air, holes and time but also other nets and structures, like social categories, status, norms and values suddenly visible and tangible and therefore 'real' and 'surreal' at the same time, as lace concentrates Ans shows things, but by exposing and emerging automatically also veils and disguises things...strange stuff, and even stranger, when You know, how it's made out if thousands of units and stitches the Venetians call very precise and pictural as "Punta in aria" - points in plain air...
Sheesh, how long were you writing this??
… no my absent neglectful mother 😢 …
Life happens!
He was so in love and always riled up😂 I’m glad other ppl remember this gem 😂
Yeppp!!
I'm ace so no, but Wolf does live in my brain rent free lol.
Fair enough!
It's such a good series.
So good!
So good!
My book sleeves are just as packed. There mostly yearly used book sales to raise money spattered with gifts and thrift. There’s the most amazing used books floating around there! And you can’t beat the price!