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which_chickSo, with sweater project on the (regrettably long) homestretch, I am looking at leftover baby blanket material. (If you are making a 45" square baby blanket and the material is 45" wide and sold in "whole yards only" you are going to have leftover material. That's just math, that is.)
The leftover fabric is soft and flannel and... pale green and pale purple. No, really. Here's a picture.
(Picture, let me just add, was taken to show the thread I bought when I FORGOT THE FABRIC SAMPLES AT HOME but yet was at the thread store and figured I could just wing it on the color matching front. I do not often have occasion to say this, but... nailed it.)
Now, these are not colors I wear. They are the colors of sherbet or baby items. But my god do I love flannel. I love it in plaids and manly solids (No, I am not a lumberjack. Fuck off. I like what I like.) in the form of button down shirts with boob pockets and ripped out elbows. I love it in sheets (striped, navy and white or a blue and black check plaid, from LL Bean because I'm bourgie about my sheets). I love cotton flannel so much. It is wonderful.
Side note: I have no idea how "fleece" became a thing. It is so static-y and plastic feeling. Water behaves strangely on its surface. I fucking hate fleece. Also every bit of horsehair and straw and hay sticks to fleece like it was velcro for that shit. In my entirely personal opinion, cotton flannel is superior to synthetic fleece in every single fucking way.
Anyway, wasting things is wrong. If I used this dumb-ass sherbet (my computer says it's spelled sherbet but in my world this word for lame-ass not quite ice cream is pronounced sher-bert with that second syllable said like the name of the tall yellow closeted neat-freak muppet on Sesame Street) colored baby blanket fabric as a lining, it would be soft and warm and not all that visible. I could probably even do Fun Things with the fabric, though with half a yard in each color, any piecing would be for my personal fun needs and not for actual necessity. (Diamonds. I want diamonds. Imma use a quilt piecing tutorial to do that part because I know fuck all about how to make a diamond pattern lining for a hood. I expect it starts with "make a diamond patterned flat piece of fabric and then pretend it's a flat normal piece of fabric and make lining for hood. )
You mean a hoodie, right?
No. I mean a hood. I want a hood. Sort of a little-red-riding-hood thing only not so much with the cape. Maybe a small amount of shoulder cape. Definitely not a big long huge cape.
What are you even talking about?
People wore this shit in the middle ages, like, a lot. Hoods were definitely A Thing back then and if you have ever seen any medieval pictures of people, they totes had hoods on. I bet I could knit a hood with flat pieces that I can seam together. I feel like hood construction is 100% not beyond me. It's flat pieces because I can do those in a less-stretchy stitch choice that will provide more structure for the hood. Decisions, decisions. Do I want pull-over-head? Or open-front? Of course it will have a liripipe. We're going all in here. :)
What ARE you talking about? I have never seen anyone in any medieval art wearing a hood of any sort.
Well, a lot of the time they don't LOOK like they are wearing a hood because the hood had a variety of different ways to wear it, only SOME of which immediately look hood-like. Here's a link to a fellow showing you how people wore hoods, illustrated with actual artworks from the period of hood wearing showing the assorted hoodwearing efforts. (I am starting to think a hood is sort of like a thneed in terms of attire.)
If I understood how to pinterest, I could make an inspiration board there of my thoughts on this subject but I don't have any time or inclination to learn how to pinterest. I'm thinking something that looks kind of like this only knitted flat and then sewn together, lined with a diamond-pattern flannel at least down through the neck. Bottom part of cape/shoulder does not need to be lined because it will not be touching me. I can make a mock-up out of sample fabric and then knit the pieces to shape. This will totally work, I am sure.
I do not want straight up knitted flat because too stretchy. But what if I knitted flat, shrunk (fulled) and THEN sewed together? We have done this before, in the Bathmat project (which I would like to point out I TOTALLY FUCKING FINISHED and is IN SERVICE NOW at my house, for those who think I never finish anything) and that makes a damn nice fabric that is super warm and has better structure than just floppy knit.
The leftover fabric is soft and flannel and... pale green and pale purple. No, really. Here's a picture.
(Picture, let me just add, was taken to show the thread I bought when I FORGOT THE FABRIC SAMPLES AT HOME but yet was at the thread store and figured I could just wing it on the color matching front. I do not often have occasion to say this, but... nailed it.)
Now, these are not colors I wear. They are the colors of sherbet or baby items. But my god do I love flannel. I love it in plaids and manly solids (No, I am not a lumberjack. Fuck off. I like what I like.) in the form of button down shirts with boob pockets and ripped out elbows. I love it in sheets (striped, navy and white or a blue and black check plaid, from LL Bean because I'm bourgie about my sheets). I love cotton flannel so much. It is wonderful.
Side note: I have no idea how "fleece" became a thing. It is so static-y and plastic feeling. Water behaves strangely on its surface. I fucking hate fleece. Also every bit of horsehair and straw and hay sticks to fleece like it was velcro for that shit. In my entirely personal opinion, cotton flannel is superior to synthetic fleece in every single fucking way.
Anyway, wasting things is wrong. If I used this dumb-ass sherbet (my computer says it's spelled sherbet but in my world this word for lame-ass not quite ice cream is pronounced sher-bert with that second syllable said like the name of the tall yellow closeted neat-freak muppet on Sesame Street) colored baby blanket fabric as a lining, it would be soft and warm and not all that visible. I could probably even do Fun Things with the fabric, though with half a yard in each color, any piecing would be for my personal fun needs and not for actual necessity. (Diamonds. I want diamonds. Imma use a quilt piecing tutorial to do that part because I know fuck all about how to make a diamond pattern lining for a hood. I expect it starts with "make a diamond patterned flat piece of fabric and then pretend it's a flat normal piece of fabric and make lining for hood. )
You mean a hoodie, right?
No. I mean a hood. I want a hood. Sort of a little-red-riding-hood thing only not so much with the cape. Maybe a small amount of shoulder cape. Definitely not a big long huge cape.
What are you even talking about?
People wore this shit in the middle ages, like, a lot. Hoods were definitely A Thing back then and if you have ever seen any medieval pictures of people, they totes had hoods on. I bet I could knit a hood with flat pieces that I can seam together. I feel like hood construction is 100% not beyond me. It's flat pieces because I can do those in a less-stretchy stitch choice that will provide more structure for the hood. Decisions, decisions. Do I want pull-over-head? Or open-front? Of course it will have a liripipe. We're going all in here. :)
What ARE you talking about? I have never seen anyone in any medieval art wearing a hood of any sort.
Well, a lot of the time they don't LOOK like they are wearing a hood because the hood had a variety of different ways to wear it, only SOME of which immediately look hood-like. Here's a link to a fellow showing you how people wore hoods, illustrated with actual artworks from the period of hood wearing showing the assorted hoodwearing efforts. (I am starting to think a hood is sort of like a thneed in terms of attire.)
If I understood how to pinterest, I could make an inspiration board there of my thoughts on this subject but I don't have any time or inclination to learn how to pinterest. I'm thinking something that looks kind of like this only knitted flat and then sewn together, lined with a diamond-pattern flannel at least down through the neck. Bottom part of cape/shoulder does not need to be lined because it will not be touching me. I can make a mock-up out of sample fabric and then knit the pieces to shape. This will totally work, I am sure.
I do not want straight up knitted flat because too stretchy. But what if I knitted flat, shrunk (fulled) and THEN sewed together? We have done this before, in the Bathmat project (which I would like to point out I TOTALLY FUCKING FINISHED and is IN SERVICE NOW at my house, for those who think I never finish anything) and that makes a damn nice fabric that is super warm and has better structure than just floppy knit.
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Date: 2022-04-09 03:01 pm (UTC)