Somehow I don’t usually think of fashion when I think about knitting something. I’m aware that knit patterns tend to echo the same lines and colors as the ready-to-wear industry but somehow that just doesn’t seem as important when I’m selecting yarn and pattern to knit a garment. Perhaps this is because it takes me [...]
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More Fashion Ponderings
Posted in Knitting, Ponderings, fashion, tagged fashion, Knitting on September 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fashion Ponderings
Posted in fashion, tagged Ponderings on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
All the fashion columns in the newspaper and magazines are touting what’s new this fall. Frankly, I don’t see much that appeals to me. That’s a good thing, I suppose, since I don’t have the budget to redo my wardrobe and I have closets full of good serviceable things to wear. Some of them are [...]
A FO — almost!
Posted in Knitting, fashion on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I almost have an FO (finished object). I completed the knitting on my mitered square vest yesterday. I just have to weave in the yarn ends and sew on the button. Mine looks different than the one on the September cover of Creative Knitting magazine because I used a regular variegated yarn rather than the [...]
Success at last … and a new quest
Posted in fashion, food on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Success! After visiting eight (count them, 8!) shoe stores/departments, I finally have some new summer shoes. One pair is white and one is a beige color called wheat. They are both the same style. The heel isn’t as high as what I had hoped to find but after all my searches, I was just pleased [...]
Seems like it never fails
Posted in fashion, tagged Add new tag on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whenever I want to buy something and have the money to pay for it, I can’t find it. This was proven true again today. My sister and I went shopping. She had something she wanted to get for her daughter’s upcoming birthday and I was in search of a pair of summer shoes. We found [...]
Fashion Musings
Posted in fashion, tagged Add new tag on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the daughter of a seamstress, fashion – to some extent – has always been a part of my life. But after watching Mother try to satisfy a customer who wanted the sleeves from one pattern put in the bodice of a different pattern and that attached to the skirt of still a different pattern, I wasn’t [...]
