Hello, Dear Readers! Have been super busy reading and collecting more bits & bobs of info, straightening up and finding more Autumnal fabrics.
What’s a typical morning like? A-typical, and frequently determined by the weather, which lately has been either broiling-hot-turn-on-air-conditioning, or Autumn’s-here-where’s-me-coat.
Consequently, it’s either a big glass of cold water with lemon, or a cuppa tea & toast for starters, while sleepily staring at either computer screen or fabric. Lately, the fabric’s been green, as in super plush 3/8” thick fleece, above.
Which do you think is the right side?
Or is there any difference??
It’s all cut & ready to sew…
You wanna talk completely covered, as in saturated? Okay ~ try this Autumn tablecloth, from my hoard of California goodies from 20 years ago. On a dark green (love it!) background, with scarcely enough space between each vivid flower, the eye doesn’t so much focus on specifics, but groups.
If you hadn’t guessed, I do love green, but also all brilliant Autumn colours. My eye sees the rich orange-yellows of the larger sunflowers and daisies first, or simultaneously with the reds. (Are they poppies or roses, or does it depend on which you’re looking at?) Then a white daisy will grab for attention. And only then do all the shades of green leaves come to my attention… and I realize a black background would look garish, too Hallowe’en.
I really don’t at all notice the deep rust-coloured leaves sprinkled throughout until I stop and focus on a section, as in the second photo above. Did you?
‘Nuff said? Enjoy!
Sat”u*rate (?), v. t. [L. saturatus, p.p. of saturate to saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated.] 1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate. 2. (Chem.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
“IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO (OR GALLERY) OF SHAPES, LINES, TEXTURES, OR PATTERNS” Cheri
He-he! What an interesting and thought-provoking group. All are basic elements of sewing, and most crafts, as well as painting, photography, sculpture, and other arts.
While looking up each word, I discovered they’re all used as verb or noun, and sometimes one or the other isn’t what’s generally thought of.
Dug deep into the shoebox and pulled out some photos from 2008 & 2009. Hope you enjoy!
Shape, v.t. pret. shaped; pp. shaped or shapen. 1. To form or create. Shape, n. [OE. shap, schap, AS. sceap in gesceap creation, creature, fr. the root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect;] 1. Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance…
Line, v. t. 1. To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin. Line, n. [OE. …prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea.] 1. linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; … a clothesline; a towline.
Tex”ture, v. t. To form a texture of or with; to interweave. Tex”ture, n. [L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture.] 1. The act or art of weaving. 2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
Pat”tern, v. t. 1. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. Pat”tern, n. [OE. patron, F. patron, a patron, also, a pattern.] 1. Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
When you look inside a garment, you’ll see seams. Quite frequently, getting those seams finished appropriately takes experience and practice.
The reasons for taking extra care with seams can be much more than aesthetic. For example, seams need to be finished so the fabric won’t unravel, or so the seam will be strong, or comfortable on the body. Those are the bits I was thinking about last year, when these photos were taken…
And to look inside the word inside, here are the usual definitions from my favourite dictionary…
1913 In”side`, prep. or adv. Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.
1828 IN”SIDE, n. [in and side.] The interior part of a thing; internal part; opposed to outside; as the inside of a church; the inside of a letter.
Just to be thorough, as the word combines in and side, here are those as well.
IN, a prefix, L. in, is used in composition as a particle of negation, like the English un, of which it seems to be a dialectical orthography; or it denotes within, into, or among, as in inbred, incase; or it serves only to augment or render emphatical the sense of the word to which it is prefixed, as in inclose, increase.
SIDE, n. [L. latus.] 1. The broad and long part of surface of a thing, as distinguished from the end, which is of less extent and many be a point; as the side of a plank; the side of a chest; the side of a house or of a ship. One side of a lens may be concave, the other convex. Side is distinguished from edge; as the side of a knife or sword.
This blog is about sewing, and things connected to it. As author, I get to choose – whoopee! Thus, the point of view is from someone who sews.
One of the things I didn’t realize was it also gives me an opportunity to show, through these weekly challenges, that we who sew do have a point of view.
That view includes many of the same areas any visual artist considers ~ colour, line, proportion, perspective, texture, etc.
In looking up the phrase ‘point of view,’ I found several things:
For example, Merriam-Webster has this: “a position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated”
The photo on the left might seem daft to most people. But someone who sews knows there’s a great deal of ironing involved in constructing a garment. Seams have to be pressed one way or another, or open; shaping with an iron is used, too.
Fabric is malleable, and subject to wrinkling at all the wrong places and times. If you continually have to get up to iron something it wastes time and is tiring. Can you understand why having that iron to hand is such a convenience?
The perspective from which a speaker or writer recounts a narrative or presents information. Depending on the topic, purpose, and audience, writers of nonfiction may rely on the first-person point of view (I, we), the second-person (you, your), or the third-person (he, she, it, they)
Hopefully, yours truly presents her point of view from different perspectives, and they illustrate why so many people around the globe are choosing to make their own clothes.
While sun & sand are reminders of beaches and oceans, there’s generally more skin than fabric on display. Since this blog is all about sewing & fabric, let’s see what similarities we can sea…hehe!
Sea has some interesting definitions, which might or might not be familiar to you…
SEA, n. see. [This word, like lake, signifies primarily a seat, set or lay, a repository, a bason.] 1. A large bason, cisternor laver which Solomon made in the temple, so large as to contain more than six thousand gallons. … 2. A large body of water, nearly inclosed by land, as the Baltic or the Mediterranean; as the sea of Azof… The appellation of sea, given to the Caspian lake, is an exception, and not very correct. So the lake of Galilee is called a sea, from the Greek 3. The ocean; as, to go to sea. 4. A wave; a billow; a surge. 5. The swell of the ocean in a tempest, or the direction of the waves; as, we head the sea. 6. Proverbially, a large quantity of liquor; as a sea of blood. 7. A rough or agitated place or element.
change: think how Calder changed our thinking about art with his 3-dimensional work
up: as in this ceiling
culture: everyone in the sewing culture recognizes the gizmos in this handy-dandy storage box
Have been relaxing with good friend Karen and getting boot camp experience as she & neighbor Carolyn made frequent forays to fabric stores. Try saying that 3 times in a row!
Couldn’t resist these 2 polyesters, but can’t decide what to DO with them…
Upper RT green challis may at last become an easy shift dress!
from LT to RT, probably a dress, a blouse, a dress
Solid blue at RT a stretchy wrap dress? wrap blouse?
brown’s already cut out as skirt…
solid red’s gonna be a skirt~ and blouses?
thinking jacket for this larger print med wt cotton
As weather turns into Spring am trying to get inspired to get sewing done.
Thank goodness Good Friend Karen’s coming to blast me out of the doldrums… and help get something bigger than current teeny 20-inch diameter “sewing table” set up.
Have need to get lots of things at least cut out, so trolled thru stash and above is what I’ve seen thus far.
Colour? You betcha! Love wearing it 24 months of the year. 😉
