liberty of london silk scarf
To be honest, I don’t like this blog, that’s why I’ve been procrastinating posting.
I enjoy writing and I enjoy thinking about what it takes to write effectively, but apparently I don’t enjoy blogging about writing. I’m thinking of resurrecting Style Made By Hand for personal blogging and reserving this blog for posts about writing when the spirit moves me. If I do that, I’ll move the memoir posts from this blog over there. I’m 99.9999% sure I’m going to do this, but it’s hard for me to make decisions so I’ll probably procrastinate a week or two or three thinking about it.
Meanwhile, shall we discuss some pretty things?
I’m so pleased with the above pictured hand-finished Liberty of London silk scarf. It took somewhere between 10 and 20 movies to finish the French Hem. I used a new technique which controls the straightness of the finished edges. Can you tell?
My handmade scarf collection makes me so happy that I decided to splurge on a good scarf horn ring.
the ring or clasp or whatever you call it feels good in my hand
I love putting the scarf ring away in its little velvet bag tucked inside the orange box.
This is the new scarf I’m finishing from another silk piece purchased at Liberty of London.
cherry blossoms
I’m working on another memoir piece I’ve wanted to write for years, one that I’ve revisited from several angles at different ages. It is my nemesis post, if you will. The one that puts the demons to rest, if I understand the demons.
I think I do.
thank you for your patience
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Susan, isn’t this what’s great about blogging? You set the deadlines, decide the content, direction. It’s definitely on the fly, but for me that’s the beauty.
Speaking of beauty – wow! The scarves are lovely. Those colors must look wonderful on you.
As for writing about writing – I can’t do it. My friends do so beautifully, but I feel self-conscious whenever I try. I’m unable to connect writing with life most of the time because when I’m trying to write something other than blog posts, I encounter another kind of struggle.
Enjoy your space of beauty. xo
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Lisa, thank you, and yes, I do love the free form aspect of blogging, especially that I can change my mind. Good to know that you don’t like writing about writing!
How lovely! I long for elegant scarves—and Hermès—but I don’t know how to use them.
I don’t comment as much as I want to (this may be the first one), but I’ll follow you wherever you decide to blog.
Thank you Sarah. For scarf tying inspiration I visit Mai Tai’s blog and Une femme d’un certain age. Scarves are my favorite dress up accessory but unfortunately the weather in the San Francisco Bay Area is often too warm for scarves. Sometimes a necklace configuration works in warm weather but not always.
Those are some gorgeous scarves. I think that beautiful ring is appropriate for a scarf collection such as yours.
The post that puts the demons to rest? Wow.
I have only recently started to put together how my past experiences resulted in certain patterns of (not-so-good) behavior. Certain events have jogged my memory and voila, some things suddenly make sense. It amazes me that I didn’t see the patterns which now seem so obvious. I don’t blog about these things, but I’ve been writing in my journal and I find that it is helping me uncover more memories.
I have never tried to write about writing, but it seems like it would be hard. Though I do have a couple of friends who do it, and they seem to enjoy it. I don’t do any writing (other than the occasional blog post– but those are really just musings). I’ve tried blogging about my sewing projects, but I’ve found that it kills the “magic” of it for me.
Well, that was kind of a stream-of-consciousness comment, but there you go. :P
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Stream of consciousness comments are welcome! I always enjoy reading your thoughts.
Blogging about the past has changed my life. For me it works better than anything else in terms of processing what happened. It is hard though, shaping those posts, because so much is at stake.
Like you, I don’t enjoy blogging about sewing :).
Love these oh so pretty things. The Cherry Blossoms is to die for. And those hydrangeas!
When I first conceived it, I thought my blog would be writing about writing. It didn’t turn out that way. I LOVE teaching writing. But I learned (quickly) that if I am writing about writing, I am not writing what’s inside me. Know what I mean?
This is YOUR space and YOU need to decide what to do with it. But from this angle, I think you need to have a place to convey your passions about beautiful things and your style, which you can photograph with your great new(ish) camera.
The writing teacher in me thinks your second space should be a gentle, sometimes space, where your memoir pieces can live as they grow and develop. Don’t stop thinking ABOUT writing – we all need to interrogate that in our own way. But if you have a space, where there is no deadline, no specified direction, you just might, well, write in it.
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Hi Jen, thank you, and yes I do know what you mean!
Your idea of separate writing spaces makes sense. I like the idea of writing occasional memoir pieces on the style blog and leaving this space for occasional musings having to do with my graduate studies. Style and memoir mixed easily there in the past.
And no, I won’t stop thinking about writing :).
Those are both pretty. When you’ve seen the real thing and then run into Liberty for Target you know there is no comparison. I once lost a scarf clip-thingy like that as I journeyed to work. I’d be tempted to secretly anchor it with strategic safety pins. I hope we’ll see how you put it together for public presentation.
I’m onto a new mystery author and finished a story about a stolen kimono. Although she described the fabrics in perfect detail, your second scarf is what I saw.
I’ve got to get out and do something about my hydrangeas. My bush has tons of flowers but not the range of colors you’ve got.
I finally deleted the link to your first blog, but “Made by Hand” is still in my list, so no problem going there.
Hi Ginny, thank you. I didn’t know there was a Liberty for Target. Did you know that there’s a Liberty of London online store? My scarf fabric is available here.
The colors in the second scarf are so subtle I’ll need to wear white to make them pop out.
We waited years for our 2012 bumper crop of hydrangeas. We have no idea what we did right this year.
Glad to hear you don’t mind moving to a different blog with me :).
I’ll come to your style blog:). I just can’t read about writing, it makes the process feel like work, and I’ve got a job for work now…
Hi Lisa, I know what you mean! I’ll be working myself (on grad studies) in just a few weeks and I don’t want the burden of having to write here as well. Blogging should be fun :).
Ooh—these are beautiful scarves and prints! I am a sucker for bright florals (well, any florals, really).
Glad to hear you are working on such a challenging but worthwhile piece. Befriend those dang demons (or chase them away, if your prefer).
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I prefer chasing the demons!
I’ll visit any blog you write. Did you purchase the Liberty of London fabrics while on your trip? The fabrics are lovely. And I want to read the memoir that has “haunted” you. Is haunted the correct word?
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Hi Terri, yes, I did purchase the fabric at Liberty of London when we were there in March. The fabric is also available from their online store.
Yes, haunted is the correct word :).
Your scarf hemming is perfection. And love the design of the cherry blossom scarf especially.
And yes, I agree that having your own blog is like being captain of your own ship. You can do whatever you like, whatever you’re in the mood for. It keeps the thing fresh too, keeps it from getting stale. And keeps the captain from falling asleep at the helm too.
Looking forward to checking in with your demons on your next post…
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Hi Pat, I’m glad you like the scarf. It was definitely worth the effort. Thank you for supporting the blog change. I feel good about it!
What a lovely scarf! I love the fabrics made by Liberty. Keeping a blog isn’t easy and but I think that its only normal that we should change the tone of a post since we can’t always be the same. Blogging should be fun, not become a chore and its author should decide what its content is about. …somtimes one needs a change so that when one wants to write about something serious…one can.
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I’m impressed so many people seem to know about Liberty! I didn’t know about it until I visited London earlier this year. I agree with you that blogging should be fun :).