I Finally Started Fixing My Pants Kinda Proud Of These Little Leaves Ngl :)

I finally started fixing my pants 🌱🌿🌱 kinda proud of these little leaves ngl :)

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Valentino Rossi by Gigi Soldano // COTA 2019

Look at this gorgeous fabric.

Making a very simple dress based on chitons. So little sewing, so little waste, and yet so comfortable.

These pictures were taken before I finished the side-seams. The “belt” in the two bottom pictures is just a matching strip of fabric. Probably I’m going to sew it so that it can be worn in different ways. Either loose & flowy for at-home days, or tied & dressed up for when I want to look more put-together.

I bought a quarterly needlepoint magazine from 1991 today for $1 at an op shop, and there’s a four page spread about a woman who completely faithfully remakes samplers from the 1600s and the part that blows me away is that she was keeping women in history alive.

The original sampler maker was a teenaged girl called Loara she’s the only one known of seven siblings in that family. She was born approximately 1632 and had passed before her father had in 1656 which they know because it was mentioned in his will.

So in the 1630-40s a girl made a sampler, in 1991 a woman had put in years of research before recreating the sampler as Loara had 350 years earlier , and I’m reading about it in 2024.

Embroidery keeps women alive in history, and it’s part of why I love samplers so much.

Here’s a quote from samplers that I think about often:

hey y'all. i was morosely flipping through a sketchbook and found my magnum opus tucked in the back. this is 100% the best thing ive ever made and i gotta share it. behold: baby isopod. may it brighten your day as it did mine.