Comments on: Opportunities lost

By: New head scarf | Amanda Brice

New head scarf | Amanda Brice — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:31:08 +0000

[...] New head scarf Image by lisaclarke Another head scarf from Weekend Sewing. This is the last little bit of a sheet I got in last year’s Summer Skirt Sheet Swap. Blogged here. [...]

By: Cool Skirt images | shirts shops

Cool Skirt images | shirts shops — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:34:58 +0000

[...] Sheet skirt re-do Image by lisaclarke This skirt always bothered me – too much fullness at the waist for my body type. So I cut it up and sewed it back together according to my favorite pattern, and now I will actually wear it. Yay! Blogged here. [...]

By: Polka Dot Cottage: Morning Coffee With Beki Lambert

Polka Dot Cottage: Morning Coffee With Beki Lambert — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:07:19 +0000

[...] I remember seeing really fabulous thrifted vintage linens. I’ve since lucked into some very cool finds myself, but before then I thought Beki must have some kind of magical thrifting powers, or at least [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:52:25 +0000

Very perceptive! Sometimes I think kids are more in tune to these things than adults are.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:51:37 +0000

“Spirit” is a good way of putting it.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:50:36 +0000

I so know what you mean! I grew up in the same house my father did, but we didn’t move there until I was 7 and I still have memories of how the basement smelled when we’d gather there for family dinners (don’t ask me why they always dined in the basement – I think it was an Italian thing). After my grandparents retired and moved away, we moved in and the basement became a playroom, and later my sister’s bedroom, and then a game room. And still, sometimes when I’m descending those stairs, it smells like it did when it was my grandparents’ dining room.

Smell is such a powerful sense. I wonder just how much of it is imagined, evoked by our memories, instead of the other way around?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:46:16 +0000

You’re so right – I don’t know what the difference is between old cotton and new, but it is palpable.

I’m considering a tutorial on the pillowcase skirt project, actually, but essentially, you take a skirt pattern and use the fold of the pillowcase as the fold of the fabric. Cut one from each case, and then sew together as you would for a skirt cut from regular fabric.

I don’t know if that made any sense… if I get a chance this week, I will try to write up a more detailed tutorial with photos and all. I’ll just have to find two more matching pillowcases that want to be a skirt

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:07:08 +0000

Not strange at all – my Granny’s are both still around but I have a sheet set / hand me down from my closest one that no longer fits any of the beds. Chloe keeps it to swaddle dolls in because it smells like Grandmothers!
.-= See Elaine’s latest blog post: Post Move =-.

By: KarenLR

KarenLR — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:46:44 +0000

I have hankies from my Grammie that I keep in box. She died @15 years ago. When I open that box, she is with me again. It is spooky/amazing. Something about old fabric....the texture, the scent, the muted colors, even the way it drapes. It does, indeed, have spirit. .-= See KarenLR's latest blog post: Vermont spectrum =-.

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:19:21 +0000

I know exactly what you mean by the "smell". Here's a good one for ya. My sister moved into my grandparents house about 10 years ago. Much has changed. Knocked out a wall. Added a laundry room. Finished off part of the basement. 4 kids and 9 grandkids, various animals over the years. But every now and then, when I first walk in to her kitchen, it smells like it did when my grandparents lived there! There is no way that could really be so, yet it is. .-= See Denise's latest blog post: Can you say "Blog Neglect"? =-.