Showing posts with label black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 April 2010

Faking it

It may be the last outpost of winter, but it ain't the last bit of knit you've seen from me.


This is the outfit from my previous post, I'm wearing a dress my mother knitted for me a couple of years back, paired with with a bright scarf and beret ('cause black doesn't love me back).



No vintage items here (apart from a hat pin you can't see), I'm doing what I do - if not best- most often: improvise the look. And let me tell you, I hate improvising, but somehow I think this works.


Thanks mum! She has just finished another green knit jacket & skirt for me, not the first piece executed long distance mode (we live countries apart, and now that I think of it this black dress too was long distance!).
However this is the first time ever when I took measurements, sent a color sample and an actual vintage catalog picture to reproduce. Not the pattern as such - since she hasn't learnt knitting from books or a course, she doesn't do technical terms.
Also, my color choice efforts went a bit bust because she rushed out to buy the wool before the sample actually reached her. As a result she's now worried that the green might not be quite the match...What can I say? It will have to do. Let us hope now that at least my measurements were correct.
I should have the suit in a few weeks time so I'll probably end up doing yet another winter post sometimes in ... June.

Friday, 16 April 2010

So much more than a riot


There is a buzz in the air as spring enters the city with its Trojan horse of aroused senses, beetles and hope. From everywhere, colors are protruding through the black of a winter retreating so fast it has no time to mourn the lost battle. Only a minute left until the sweet invasion is complete, before we all bow in ecstatic surrender to the victor.
Queen Spring, your crown awaits you.




For the non purists, here's a mixed platter of vintage and vintage inspired, to be served al fresco.

Pick what you like, but be sure to be Jumpin' at the Woodside, it's what spring is about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdWgHtTau48















Sunday, 28 March 2010

How deep is the ocean


The end of the holiday.
The aftertaste of all that longing and hankering for sunshine and blue skies.
A dream of blue, washed away on an imaginary shore.

"How deep is the ocean?"
"I'll tell you no lie"...

Ella Fitzgerald "How deep is the ocean?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNe_gIH-79w&feature=related



Photo sources and credits:
http://www.frlickr.com/photos/olovecharlieo/4039139545/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7623944@N03/3922714383
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14643312@N02/4088590288/