I spend a lot of time looking for inspirational images on the internet. I wanted to share this last batch with ya’ll because they are soooo spectacular and really interesting on so many levels.
I’m beginning to understand that my hat fetish and my snood obsession kind of go hand-in-hand. I’ve been doing research on vintage snood patterns and I’ve been having a little luck. You can see one of them here. I also found a really neat tutorial here - it tells you how to make a simple snood from an old doily. (If you didn’t know, I heart doilies big time. The doily/snood combination is almost too much to bear.)
On to the pictures!
*Swoon*
Before I send this vintage doll kit away to my dear waldorf-obsessed friend, Lara, I thought I would take some pictures.
’scuse my flash…
I think Lara’s gonna love it. Safe travels, Rupfenpuppen.
So I read about Chizimi shrinking thread in a craft magazine a while back and I was immediately fascinated.
You sew with it normally (top or bobbin thread or both) and when you expose it to heat with your iron, the thread shrinks, creating puckers in the fabric. You could go many crafty places with this stuff, seems to me. I started looking it up on the interwebs, wondering if $10 was too much to splurge on a gimmicky thread….
Soon, my search was totally derailed by vintage smocked pillow patterns. I have one of these! I treasure it. Never did I think I might be able to make my very own. Apparently it’s done with a technique called Canadian Smocking, different from English smocking. Feast your eyes….
I think my smocking adventures have just begun. Smocked blouse yokes? Smocked dresses? Smocked pillows, wallets, bags? Yes. Yes. Yes. So much craft, so little time.
