Marie Antoinette Obsession and crochet of course.

Obsessed?

Just a little, currently I have been mentioning the film alot,
you may have observed my love of.......

The Colours/cakes.

The Basques.

The dresses, the accessories.

The decoration

The scenery

The palace.

The baby blue converse

Basically.......

The whole kit and Ka-boodle
(not quiet sure of that meaning, explanation anyone?)

I have been watching the film, a good few times,

New dress research purposes of cousre...........

Watching the film over, made me fall in love with the sound track.
(I use that term to a little to easily)

From Classical to Adam and the Ants a must have.

Ebay £6.49 double cd, cute booklet.

And then hooked on the truth and how the queen is portrayed in the film.

And the basic history lesson, never really paying much attention at school.

I needed to buy the biography, of cousre!.

And so far the film is pretty much in keeping of the truth.
1p from Amazon £3.50 postage (bargain)

My train sketch.

And two trips so far, to the Nordiska museum.

http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/

300 years of fashion exhibition.

http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/Publication.asp?publicationid=12335&cat=148&topmenu=148

Research for the petticoat

That I will have to construct before I even begin the dress.

Basically strap two baskets to the hips of my mannequin, actaully I may have to construct some hips, my kate is a little flat in all departments.

Unlike her curvy owner.;-)

One of my sketch and collages.

Crochet packaging.

Left side fixed.

Right side fixed.

The back, almost fixed.

It's turning in to a rather large jigsaw

That I have to find and fit the right pieces.

And then crochet them into place.

Rasmus below is totally bored by the whole process.

As am I ;-)

Cake and Crochet

Its been years since I had the pleasure of a Black forest gateau, in the Uk a still frozen in the middle, Sarah lee from ice-lands would always be the key dessert at my child hood party's.

You know the sort(well hopefully you don't) Aunties fallen over drunk, nan's asleep in the chair your uncles have been fighting on the lawn for hours and the teenage children had consumed a large amount of cider(illegally). Those where the days!!!! Not........;-(

Time have change no longer living in the Geto aka Council Estate Britain, more in-tune with a latte and pastry, the snobbery.(oj oj oj)

My sister in-law invited us to celebrate my brothers birthday and she also remembered these days, and on her mention of a nostalgic gateau , it took me back, way back and not really sure to things I wanted to remember. Also the fact, not really sure I ever actually like the tasteless still frozen gateau.

The new me an Emma cherry forest gateau, convert;-).

Happy Birthday Slimy 36

Above and below my sisters(in law) art in the presence of a cake.

Crochet packaging dress in water colour.

I'm defiantly winning with this project but it taking its time.

Looking pretty effective, I like the world map colour and my canvas
in the back ground.

I really like to look in photos and see the things that you where not taking the picture of.

The things that you just managed to capture.

That moment in time.

The mint waist band is managing to take the weight well, so far so good.

I have been a quiet blogger this week ;-(

Here's one of the reasons why, my uni cousre is taking it toll. Brief one, its on track but my month dead line was Friday so I'm just a little behind schedule.

Its tough it has been a while, and just dotting the i's and crossing the T's is tough. Plan, prepare, justify and organise.

It's coming together, Its just taking a wee bit longer.

Front, textile sample of the chair scene above.

Back, just a few ends! it's all made in one piece

Using lots of different stitches to justify the texture of each chair break in the photo.

This is Sample Two nearly completed, only one more to make;-)

Easter Graffiti

It will be next Easter at my current pace;-(

Or I can cheat and the chicks will become ducks;-)
Now that sounds like a plan.........
Hopefully this week coming , I'll get to it.

Supersized and not the Golden Arches, my post.

Art

Just as it says, my letters are coming on well.........
I'm defiantly busy knit and art wise, adding to that my new study pattern
and I feel that I am waving and not drowning.

But this weekend I really need to get my self a realistic schedule.

As I love what I do, and I need to make slots for everything, God forbid I couldn't fit in my obsessive blogging.

Packaging dress gets sleeves

I really am fed up with looking at this unfinished dress on my mannequin. I guess it does not help that It sits in my front room.(main living space)

Calling out to me , "finish me"........Pleasssssssseeeeee.

Unfortunately I don't have Cinderella little helpers...........

Well two Guinea pigs and a dog, they need constant care, walk ,feed clean.

They don't dance around Tra la lar'ing helping me get my dress made.

This will go to the Ball soon, I just need to get my act together.

I still have to work out what type of neck line I can have.

As the dress is so delicate the weight is tough,

as it has to be equally shared or it will rip the dress.

Another issue is that I am actually using whole packaging pieces and they tend to be rectangle so I have to attach them to fit or make smaller if to large but by gathering them not cutting!

Why?

Who knows! I just like a challenge I guess.

Health wise after my disastrous few weeks

My cold id nearly gone (nasal spray addict)

And as from Monday, I'm back to my long walks, foot ok.

Ready for running;-0

Side panels are now completed on one side.

I do have a handsome prince though, he brought me flowers.

And get this, for no reason ............

Oj Oj Oj must be love

But best of all

He brought me wool, now theirs man who know how to get to my heart.

Cool colours for my Marie Antoinette phase.

Blythe

This part is dedicated to Paul (the FD) he recently visited and as you know my Blythe's eye move. (They change colour)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe_%28doll%29

But in order to do this you have to pick them up and pull a cord at the back of there heads.

Which wreaks there perfectly groomed hair, and cute little outfit. So I only do that when I outfit change.

When Paul discovered this he decided to annoy me by constantly by changing the eye colour.(aaaahhhh)

And so on this visit I out smarted him and hid them in a cupboard. So of course to his annoyance he couldn't find them.

Once he left and I went to fetch them it made me laugh.
(inwardly obsessive again, that's three times this post)

As they really looked shocked and startled even a little freaky at being found.



Oslo Lap top bag for bean



I was so under the weather when I did my Oslo no knitting post that I had forgotten on the drive down I actually did manage a crochet.

Basic but all that was needed , Bean in true teenage boy style (18! I guess man) shocking

Chubby cheeked 5 year old in my eye's............

Brought a lap top and no case! so denim blue and pretty plain stitch, he was happy. I had to re-frame from my usual flowers and bright colours of decoration;-)

Packaging Dress Made Real.

This is my packaging dress constructed entirely of fruit and vegetable packaging.

It appear on my mannequin as a finished dress.

But

Actually

Factually

If I'm honest

I have learnt a few cheats/photography & photo-shop.

The fact is that it's all edged in crochet.

That's all the packaging squares and rectangles.

But the actual dress construction, is a fraud.

It is completely pinned in place.

A dress makers dummy.

I had mapped out where the parts will be/roughly.

And just before I left for my holiday I had actually began the big task

of making it wearable and stitching them together.

The actual dress construction part has now commenced.

I made a band the yellow cotton crochet and this worked,

It was trial and error!

As I tried a few bands.

The acrylic was just to thick not delicate enough.

Then in my dwindling stash
(I really need to sell some art to replenish this)

I found the cotton/lemon worked a treat and I'm off.

Watch this space a lot of construction and imagination to follow.

My on line mention

Stickkontakt

I'm feeling very smug.

http://stickkontakt.blogspot.com/

Pom- pom set in Ice.

I'm so in love with these picture's, new Ice project.

It's a frozen Pom-pom set in Ice.

Very in-keeping with the English weather.

It took five and a half hour's to collect my son.

A trip that should have taken three.

Tonight we are brassed for the coldest yet -17

Yes that's England not Stockholm.......shocking!.