tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25610583198736619032024-03-14T05:00:22.611+11:00Fashioned by LyndellI call myself a constant crafter - only really happy when I'm busy creating something - knitting, spinning, dying, sewing, millinery, costumes, clothes for dolls, tatting, bobbin lace ... Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-15824722982156838982017-12-05T12:07:00.000+11:002017-12-05T12:07:06.708+11:00Environmental Footprint of Various Fibres used in Clothing - Part 5 M, N & O<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;">Part 5 - M, N & O of this alphabetical list.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">An attempt at </span><span style="background-color: white;">a cradle-to-grave, un-biased evaluation of most of the fibres used in our clothing and crafting. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Firstly to repeat a couple of important things (for more, </span><a href="http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/environmental-footprint-of-various.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">see parts 1 & 2)</a><span style="background-color: white;">: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1. When it comes to clothing - it isn't easy being green ...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">2. A great deal of the environmental impact of our clothing lies with the end user - that's you & me. The person who buys, wears, washes, irons (?) mends, re-purposes, and ultimately decides when and how that garment is disposed of</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">3. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Listing is alphabetical and it'll go over several posts </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">4. I will update it as I discover more information - </span><span style="background-color: white;">I'm Australian so the info is sometimes Ozzie-centric</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">5. I knit a lot (so I'll look at fibres often made into yarns but perhaps not so often found in commercial clothing)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">6. I've tried to cover all aspects 'from cradle to grave'. </span><br /> --- --- --- ---</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Mercerised Cotton</b> - Cotton treated by dipping into a strong alkaline (usually caustic soda) to give the thread a lustrous appearance, improved dye absorption, greater strength and a smoother, softer feel when handled. Sometimes the thread is also singed to remove stray fibres.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From an environmental point of view, improved dye absorption is a good thing as it means less (usually chemical) dyestuff to produce the colour but where does the alkaline go and if the thread is also singed - this is done by passing it over a flame ... so that means fossil fuel consumption etc</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Microfiber / Microfibre </b>- synthetic fiber finer than one denier ... extremely fine, really extremely fine. Microfibre is very fine polyester, polyamide (this means nylon) or a mix of man-made synthetic fibres. As a non-scientist / non-industrial-chemist I think of synthetic fibres as basically being plastics made from petrochemicals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'll go into greater depth when I get to those man-made fibres - but I think most of us familiar with the environmental problems of polyester & nylon. Fabrics that don't really biodegrade but do shed tiny particles of plastic when washed - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester#Environmental_concerns" target="_blank">micro-plastics which are now causing great environmental concern</a> and plastic fibres are the most common form of micro-plastic pollution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the Global to the Personal - Microfibre sounds far more sophisticated than Polyester but when very fine threads of some-form-of-plastic are woven snugly together to made a fabric, that resulting fabric lacks breathability to an even greater degree than the older styles of Polyester fabric. It isn't very pleasant to wear and can result in your becoming less than pleasant to be around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The synthetic fabrics don't 'breathe' and they don't biodegrade but they do burn ... and melt into sticky very hot goo ... well it is melted plastic ... not nice if you happen to be wearing it ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Minki</b> - I'm including this because I'm seeing a lot of products labelled 'Minki' - so what is it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a word - 100% Polyester. Made into a thick 'fleece' fabric or low-pile faux fur. It has nothing to do with minks or their fur. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rant Alert - I've tried to maintain a distance and not assert too many opinions in this series of Blog Posts - BUT - </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">polyester blankets ? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Minki blankets are often sold as suitable for children !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Polyester doesn't 'breathe' and it is a </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>fire-hazard.</b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> In the unfortunate event of a fire, polyester burns fiercely (like the petroleum product it is) and then goes to a black, sticky and <span style="color: red;">Very Hot </span>goo which sticks to things and emits heat (just imagine what that does on skin).</span><br />
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<b>Modacrylic</b> - a form of <a href="https://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/environmental-footprint-of-various.html" target="_blank">acrylic</a>. Modacrylic is flame-retardant but it is prone to pilling so needs careful laundering. It is used for protective clothing, fake fur fabrics, soft toys and wigs. <br />
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<b>Modal</b> - when it is not a misspelling of 'model' this is yet another type of Rayon. Rayon will be addressed in full when I get to the letter R but Rayon is reconstituted cellulose - basically it starts as plants which are turned into a cellulose soup - and then chemically hardened and extruded into fibres. In the case of Modal the plant material should come from plantation beech trees. <br />
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Modal was developed by an Austrian company called Lenzing - Lenzing Modal is made from sustainably managed beech tree plantations in Europe and their process was developed to minimise environmental impacts by recovering and reusing the chemicals used in the process. </div>
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However, not all garments labelled 'Modal' are made of this more environmentally friendly fibre. Some manufacturers have been accused of forest destruction in Indonesia and garments labelled 'Modal' and manufactured (sewn) in China are often made with Indonesian Modal. </div>
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<b>Mohair </b>- Mohair comes from Angora Goats but Angora comes from Angora Rabbits - it would be less confusing if we renamed the goats but both animals are named for Ankara in Turkey. Some people think of mohair as scratchy and in the past it often was; but when mohair has come from well-fed young animals - then it should be soft, with a lovely 'halo' of fluffiness and slightly sheeny.</div>
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Mohair is a long fibre, lustrous and almost without scales (the microscopic barbs that can make wool feel scratchy) - the lack of scales also makes mohair difficult to felt / full / shrink (all 3 being basically the same process). Mohair is regarded as a luxury fibre and is used for knitting yarns, it is woven into top-end suit and coat fabrics (often blended with wool) and is made into fur fabrics for the more expensive soft toys - in the past it was used for dolls' hair and still is for OOAK and customised dolls.</div>
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<b>Nylon</b> - A synthetic polymer - a smooth thermoplastic that can be melt-processed into fibres, films and shap<span style="background-color: white;">es. <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="color: #222222;">Wallace Carothers working for t</span></span>he </span>Du Pont company developed nylon during the 1930s - the first commercial use being for toothbrush bristles in 1938, closely followed by women's stockings ... then during World War II most nylon production went to make parachutes - for the canopy and the cords.<br />
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Rationing helped to make nylon stockings immensely popular but after the war nylon Du Pont cleverly marketed Nylon for other uses including nylon fabrics for lingerie and fashionable clothes. All those filmy 50s frocks (nylon) with big bouffant skirts - held out by tulle petticoats (nylon).<br />
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Nylon is very useful - it is strong, durable, resistant to insects and molds / fungi (because it is synthetic) and it is fast drying (because it is non-absorbent). Nylon is used for umbrellas, raincoats, flags, strings for musical instruments, fishing lines, machine gears, broom bristles, sausage skins ... all sorts of things - even Kevlar is a variety of Nylon. However, for clothing Nylon is no-longer so popular as we have problems with that non-absorbency. <br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-68828543237571280742017-04-26T17:51:00.002+10:002017-12-04T14:09:40.769+11:00Environmental Footprint of Various Fibres used in Clothing - Part 4 the Ls<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Part 4 - I to L of this alphabetical list but I can't </span></span><span style="font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif;">think of any commonly used fibres that start with either I or J (if you can, please let me know and I'll add them to the list) & of K I can only think of Kevlar - again not commonly used. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">An attempt at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a cradle-to-grave, un-biased evaluation of most of the fibres used in our clothing & crafting. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Firstly to repeat a couple of important things (for more, </span><a href="http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/environmental-footprint-of-various.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">see parts 1 & 2)</a><span style="background-color: white;">: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1. When it comes to clothing - it isn't easy being green ...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">2. A great deal of the environmental impact of our clothing lies with the end user - that's you & me. The person who buys, wears, washes, irons (?) mends, re-purposes, and ultimately decides when and how that garment is disposed of. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">3. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Listing is alphabetical and it'll go over several posts </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. I will update it as I discover more information</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm Australian so the info is sometimes Ozzie-centric</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. I knit a lot (so I'll look at fibres often made into yarns but perhaps not so often found in commercial clothing)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. I've tried to cover all aspects 'from cradle to grave'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Leather</b> - Strong, flexible and long lasting - leather has many uses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Growing it</i> - Most leather is from cattle and there are environmental concerns about raising cattle. It is </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">an animal product and some people avoid all such - but if you are an eater of meat then leather is a by-product of your food. Although most leather is from cattle, you can also find sheep leather (it is soft and slightly more fragile than cow) and pig leather, called pig skin (it has an interesting dimpled texture). Other speciality leathers you might find include Deer Skin, Ostrich & Emu (fabulous dimpled textures on those), Barramundi fish leather (almost looks like the scales are still there). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="color: #333333;">Processing it - </i><span style="color: #333333;">Most of the environmental concerns with leather are from the pre-tanning and tanning processes. Tanning permanently alters the protein structure of the skin and is necessary to make the leather durable and prevent decomposition ... it'll probably also change the colour. Here is a bit of etymology for you - because it is from the tanning of leather that we get all those other uses of the word 'tan' - tan brown, tanning ourselves in the sun ... and 'tan' comes from 'tannin' which in turn comes from an old German word for oak or fir trees, early sources of tannin. Then there is the tannin in our cup of tea - and that is what will stain the crockery and makes tea a very useful dye. But I digress ...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Before the skin is tanned it has to be prepared and this all gets rather nasty if you think about it! First it is kept from 'going off' by being cured in salt or by freezing - then there are the 'Beamhouse Operations' to remove everything except the actual skin. These processes are noxious and smelly - usually done on the outskirts of a </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">town, traditionally near a river - but waste-products can get into the water supply ... </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will run through some of the steps and try not to get too 'icky'! </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soaking - to remove the salt and increase moisture. To prevent bacteria etc, biocides and fungicides might be used. Until 1980 in the US they could use mercury-based biocides - let us hope these are not used <i>anywhere</i> nowadays.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Liming & various processes to change the pH and remove hair and other unwanted stuff. Various chemicals are used including sulfides and ammonia</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - in the past one of the processes involved animal dung !!! </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally the skin is Pickled with common salt and then sulphuric acid ... to produce more changes to the pH - then it can be tanned ...</span><br />
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<i>Tanning -</i> Most modern tanning is done with Chromium (III) sulphate which sounds scary, chromium is a heavy metal in the non rock-music sense. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning_(leather)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> assures me that "Chromium (III) compounds ... are less toxic than hexavalent chromium" but I'm not a chemist and anything Chromium sounds scary to me.<br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is also Vegetable Tanning which uses the bark from trees as the source of tannin - those trees include chestnut, oak, tanoak (how did that tree get its name?) mangrove and wattle. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes my fellow Australians ... the Golden Wattle - our National Flower is a wonderful source of tannin (as are other wattle trees but the Golden is the best). In the early 1980s I lived near a tannery that used wattle bark and I can truthfully say that it didn't smell - though perhaps that was because all the really noxious pre-processing was done elsewhere. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unfortunately, vegetable tanned leather is not as flexible as that tanned with Chromium.</span><br />
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<i>How should we look after it - </i>and some of this depends on how the leather has been used. Leather can get stiff and it can get mildew or mould - so keep in a dry environment and use a good leather conditioning oil or 'wax' - keep your leather shoes & boots nicely polished. Think of polishing shoes not as a chore but as a lovely form of meditation. <br />
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<i>What happens when it does go into land-fill?</i> - not a nice thought for that expensive leather sofa but leather will biodegrade; it takes a while but it will happen.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Leather from Fungus or Slime Mould or Pineapple Leaves (Pinatex) </b>- Lots of very clever people are working to create products that look and behave like leather - sometimes this is called 'victimless leather'. Early stages, but how wonderful if something as useful and adaptable as leather from a cow could be made (without massive environmental impact) from something as easy to grow as a slime mould. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looking forward to seeing progress and more information about this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I do hope we can produce a good alternative leather but it needs to be environmentally friendly in every step of the process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Leatherette </b> - another name for PVC. This and other faux man-made leathers will be listed separately.</span><br />
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<b>Linen</b> - This fibre is less used now than in the past - cotton has taken the place of linen for many garments and for things such as sheets, tea towels, tablecloths ... all those things we refer to sometimes as 'household linen'.<br />
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<i>What is it? </i>Linen is a plant fibre and the plant is called flax which is confusing! The cultivated flax plant (Linum usitatissimum yes, that means 'most useful') no longer exists in a wild form. It is a very useful plant; not only do we get fibre from the stems but the seeds are crushed to make Linseed Oil and are edible, turning up in seeded bread and health foods - it is also quite pretty with dainty little blue flowers. <br />
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Humans have used flax fibre for at least 30,000 years. The Egyptian mummies were wrapped in very fine linen, the Romans used it for their sails & flax fibre can be used to make paper. Flax fibre is 2 to 3 times stronger than cotton fibre, it is also naturally smooth and straight, however, linen fabric is stiffer to handle and more easily wrinkled - linen garments need a lot of ironing though the 'naturally crumpled' look has a certain charm.<br />
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<i>Producing / Growing it</i> - Flax likes good soil, there aren't many pests that eat it but flax doesn't compete with weeds well. The crop is harvested after 80 to 100 days - after flowering but before the seeds have set for the best quality fibre, but the seeds are valuable too. <br />
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<i>Processing it </i> - There are a lot of similarities in the processing of hemp fibre and flax - both are retted & scutched to remove the unwanted harder and sticky parts of the stem. The exact processes vary from country to country and depending on the intensity of cropping. A lot of high quality flax / linen comes from northern France and Belgium where the process is quite mechanised but you can also find a lot of interesting clips on YouTube from re-enactors & historical places in Ireland and the US etc. <br />
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The plants are usually pulled up roots and all for maximum length of fibre and then they are left in bundles in the field to ret naturally in the sun, dew and rain. Retting is really a controlled rotting (those words are similar!).<br />
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Retting can also be done in water - but it will pollute that water and it smells. <br />
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When dry again, the retted stalks (sometimes called straw) undergoes breaking and scutching (similar processes) to remove the woody unwanted parts of the stem from the lovely flaxen fibre inside ... and yes, it does look like blonde 'flaxen' hair. In the US the terminology seems a little different e.g. they use a 'brake' to break up the hard part of the stem. All this can be done mechanically of course and I've found this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXoSpLsGMQs" target="_blank">wonderful YouTube of a old Scutch Mill in Ulster</a> - fabulous Irish accent too. <br />
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Aren't the names of these processes rather wonderful? In the process of turning flax into linen we've retting, breaking, scutching and then heckling or hackling. Yes, 'heckling' as in - teasing and interrupting a speaker ... does originate with the heckling and teasing of fibre. Also, scutching and heckling are unpleasant hot & dusty jobs ... hecklers had "a reputation as the most radical and belligerent element in the workforce. In the heckling factory, one heckler would read out the day's news while the others worked, to the accompaniment of interruptions and furious debate." (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler" target="_blank">Wikipedia here</a>)<br />
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But back to the flax - and this heckling / hackling is to pull the fibres through a metal comb (and now we know the derivation of the old saying "to get your hackles up"). Again, this process has been mechanised which isn't so picturesque but finally there should be lovely long, silky, white to yellow, flax fibres and the short courser fibres left behind which are called Tow. Tow can be used to make twine, fishing nets, ropes, and in paper, building products or for fuel.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br />As can be seen from this French postcard - spinning flax has always been a bit different to spinning wool. The fibre is held on a distaff and often the wheel is turned with the hand ... rather than by foot pedals. Not apparent here but usually the fibre is kept slightly wet while it is spun - to keep it smooth and for strength (flax / linen is much stronger when wet than when dry) so the spinning wheels often had little wooden cups or at least a cup holder. Of course, modern flax / linen fabric is spun and woven by large machines and in the spinning mills the fibre is wet so those factories are quite humid.</span><br />
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<i>Caring for Linen Clothing - </i>Linen is strong and durable, very absorbent and stronger when wet than dry/ Linen makes great clothes for hot, humid weather partly because it doesn't cling to you as much as cotton does. Go with the naturally crumpled look rather than using lots of electricity (and your sanity) ironing it all the time.<br />
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<i>Other Thoughts </i>- This is more about the ethics of our clothing than the environmental impact but processing flax into linen is still very labour intensive - that lovely flaxen fibre is quite fragile. If you can, check that the linen is manufactured in a country where workers get a living wage and there are good industrial practices to protect the workers' health etc.<br />
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Another thought - because I'm trying to learn how to made lace by hand (bobbin lace). The regions where lace was made were often the same regions that made linen (and some still do) because the lace was made from very fine linen thread - often much finer than we can find nowadays (and we usually use cotton thread now). <br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'times new roman', times, freeserif, serif;"></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'times new roman', times, freeserif, serif;">Burning and Biodegrading - </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Linen / flax burns and biodegrades just like all the other plant based fibres.</span><br />
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<b>Lycra</b> - see Elastane in part 3.<br />
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<b>Lyocell</b> - see Rayon when I get to the Rs in this list.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-67495402408896951692016-12-27T19:36:00.003+11:002017-01-24T13:18:27.712+11:00Environmental Footprint of Various Fibres used in Clothing - Part 3<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Part 3 - D to H of this alphabetical list; An attempt at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">a cradle-to-grave, un-biased evaluation of most of the fibres used in our clothing & crafting. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Firstly to repeat a couple of important things (for more, </span><a href="http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/environmental-footprint-of-various.html" style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">see parts 1 & 2)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">1. When it comes to clothing - it isn't easy being green ...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">2. A great deal of the environmental impact of our clothing lies with the end user - that's you & me. The person who buys, wears, washes, irons (?) mends, re-purposes, and ultimately decides when and how that garment is disposed of. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Listing is alphabetical and it'll go over several posts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I will update it as I discover more information</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I'm Australian so the info is sometimes Ozzie-centric</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I knit a lot (so I'll look at fibres often made into yarns but perhaps not so often found in commercial clothing)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I've tried to cover all aspects 'from cradle to grave'. </span><br />
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<b>Dacron</b> - see Nylon later in this on-going list, when I get to the letter N<br />
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<b>Elastane / Spandex / Lycra</b> - this is the stuff that makes stretch fabrics stretchy and about 80% of new clothing contains elastane threads - it is in:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just love the "ActiveWear" parody - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRENWT8lz8" target="_blank">YouTube</a></td></tr>
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Activewear<br />
Costumes<br />
Dance-wear<br />
Gloves<br />
Hosiery - socks, stockings, tights<br />
Leggins & Jeggins<br />
Orthopaedic braces<br />
Skinny jeans<br />
Sports clothes<br />
Surgical stockings<br />
Swimwear<br />
Underwear ... ... ...<br />
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Without elastic and elastic threads we would have underwear that buttoned on or laced up - I don't think we want to return to that but let's look at what all this stretchy stuff is. <br />
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<i>What is it?</i> - Good ole' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandex" target="_blank">Wikipedia </a>tells us that it is a "polyester-polyurethane copolymer ... invented in 1958 by ... Joseph Shivers at DuPont " so obviously man-made and basically a plastic. The word 'plastic' is a great catch-all for non-chemists like myself but most plastics are derived from petrochemicals and most don't biodegrade or they do so very slowly or they break down into tiny - micro - bits of plastic. Unfortunately, most commonly used plastics are also unstable ... so although they sit about for ages in land-fill and our oceans they often don't last very well fulfilling the original purpose for which they were made. I'm thinking here of those early Barbie dolls that go all sticky and disintegrate, all the plastic kitchen bowls that have cracked with use ... and of course, all those bits of elastic in clothing that stopped being elastic.<br />
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<i>How should we look after it?</i> - The elastane threads are usually woven or knitted with other fibres but it is often the elastane that 'goes' first and our stretch-wear stops 'returning' after being stretched. To keep elastane and elastics being elastic:<br />
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<li>avoid chemicals - deodorants aren't good but if you are being active in your active wear ... ... laundry powders and fabric conditioners are the other common sources of chemical overload. </li>
<li>avoid heat - I doubt you iron your swimsuit or that superman costume but don't tumble dry anything with elastic thread. Line drying is always best for our clothes but that said - UV is bad for plastic</li>
<li>avoid UV - so try to dry in the shade.</li>
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<i>What happens when it does go into land-fill?</i> - I suspect that as with a lot of plastics, those elastic threads break into tiny little bits, still there but hard to see.<br />
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<i>A bit of Trivia</i> - the name 'Spandex' is an anagram of 'Expands' :-)<br />
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<b>Flax</b> - see Linen later on in this alphabetical list<br />
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<b>Hemp</b> - Yes, we are talking about cannabis but the plants used for their fibre have been bred to be low in THC ... so smoking a hemp T-shirt is quite pointless !!<br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">What is it? </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Hemp fibre has been used to make fabric and paper for thousands of years. It is easy and very fast to grow, the fibres are long and thus very strong, hemp fibres don't stretch readily so hemp fabric holds its shape and hemp is naturally mold & rot resistant.</span><br />
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Hemp fabric was traditionally used when strength & durability were required - sails were made of it and the word 'canvas' comes from 'cannabis'. During the Californian gold-rush, the miners needed trousers that were tough - the story goes that Levi Strauss started providing them with trousers made from light weight canvas ... made of hemp fibre ... the first 'jeans'.<br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Producing / Growing it - </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Industrial hemp grows easily to a height of 4m, it likes warmth and good soil (but needs less fertiliser than corn) hemp doesn't need pesticides or herbicides (hemp is planted quite densely so it'll out-compete any weeds). A hemp crop requires about 14 times less water than cotton. Industrial hemp captures large quantities of carbon and the plants mature in 3 to 4 months. </span>"Hemp benefits crops grown after it ... high weed suppression, soil loosening by the large hemp root system and the positive effect on soil ... it can also be grown several years in a row in the same fields"<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"> (all this info from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">)</span><br />
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France produces more that 70% of the world's hemp fibre. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fileuses de Chanvre - spinners of hemp - from the early 1900s <br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Processing it - </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">There are some lovely words in the processing of hemp and other plant fibres ... after harvesting the hemp is </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">retted </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">then there is <i>scrutching</i> and something called a <i>decorticator. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Retting uses water to dissolve or rot away cells and pectins surrounding the bast fibres ... hemp can be 'dew retted' by simply leaving it to lie in the field for a few weeks, or it can be 'tank retted' in concrete vats, this takes 4 to 6 days and the waste water can be used as liquid fertiliser.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Scrutching is breaking of the retted 'straw' (the stems) to further separate those desirable bast fibres from the woody core ... </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I took these photos in the Museum of Popular Tradition in Offida, Italy - please excuse the quality, this was a small crowded room and this Gramola was long, being made from the trunk of a tree ... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">But you can see rather clearly how it worked ... personally, I'd not want to get my arm in there! Not sure if that fibre draped over it is hemp or a raffia - it was a bit long to be flax but the spinning wheel is the sort used for spinning flax.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">The Retting and Scrutching processes are basically the same for Hemp fibre and Flax.</span><br />
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A decorticator is a mechanical scrutcher - that breaks the stem and does the separation as well. There are different types of decorticators for other fibres and for different grains, nuts and wood - but it seems that the first decorticator was made for hemp - in 1861 by a farmer from Bologna - only he called it a "scavezzatrice".<br />
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From there the hemp fibre can be spun much the same as flax / linen ... indeed all the non-industrial photographic references I can find (such as that postcard from 'picturesque Auvergne') show the same arrangements for distaff, drop spindle or spinning wheel for flax and for hemp. <br />
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<i>Other Thoughts</i> - All parts of the industrial hemp plant is useful - the fibre makes great rope and paper, the inner core can be used to strengthen building materials and plastic car panels, it can be used as insulation, animal bedding and as a biofuel, the oily seeds can be used medicinally, as animal and bird feed, in cosmetics and paints. 75 to 90% of all paper was made with hemp fiber until 1883 and it is ideal for paper-making; it grows much faster than trees, the fiber is longer & stronger, it is naturally cream coloured and low in lignin - so requires far fewer nasty chemicals to process and the resulting paper doesn't yellow and is much stronger than paper made from trees.<br />
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<i>Caring for Hemp clothing</i> - Hemp fabric is strong and durable, it is absorbent and is actually stronger wet than dry. It handles extreme washing temperatures and hot ironing, but bleaching can damage hemp. It is naturally mothproof. On a personal note - my hubby darling's hemp T-shirts last a great deal longer than the cotton ones. <br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Burning and Biodegrading - </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Hemp fibre burns and biodegrades just like all the other plant based fibres.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The painted ceiling of an arcade / portico in Bologna showing hemp leaves, <br />
spinning equipment and a lady weaving</td></tr>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-4819632506191650632016-11-24T17:05:00.002+11:002016-12-18T18:55:58.136+11:00Environmental Footprint of Various Fibres used in Clothing - Part 2Part 2 - B & C of this alphabetical list; An attempt at <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">a cradle-to-grave, un-biased evaluation of most of the fibres used in our clothing & crafting. </span><br />
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Firstly to repeat a couple of important things (for more, please <a href="http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/environmental-footprint-of-various.html" target="_blank">see my previous post)</a>: <br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">1. When it comes to clothing - it isn't easy being green ...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">2. A great deal of the environmental impact of our clothing lies with the end user - that's you & me. The person who buys, wears, washes, irons (?) mends, re-purposes, and ultimately decides when and how that garment is disposed of. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Listing is alphabetical and it'll go over several posts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I will update it as I discover more information</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I'm Australian</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I knit a lot (so I'll look at fibres often made into yarns but perhaps not so often found in commercial clothing)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">I've tried to cover all aspects 'from cradle to grave'. </span><br />
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And a little side thought here because some of the fibres in this part of the alphabet are expensive / aspirational and this started me thinking along these lines...<br />
From an Environmental point of view the purchase of one lovely garment, made from a gorgeous fibre, that makes us feel good and that stays in the wardrobe and is worn for decades - that purchase is definitely better for the environment (and ultimately better for our bank balance) than the constant purchasing of cheap garments from fibre that doesn't last, looks awful in a short period of time and goes into land-fill very quickly. <br />
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<b>Bamboo</b> - a type of Rayon using bamboo as the source of the cellulose ... please see Rayon when I get there in this alphabetical list.<br />
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<b>Bemsilk </b>- An Acetate - the most commonly used fabric for lining garments ... <a href="http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/environmental-footprint-of-various.html" target="_blank">See Acetate in Part 1</a><br />
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<b>Bemberg </b>- a Cuprammonium Rayon ... please see below.<br />
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<b>Banana, Banana Silk </b> - you'll only get dietary fibre from the fruit - this comes from the stalks. Bananas are not trees, what looks like a trunk is really the tightly packed sheaths (bottom part) of the leaves.<br />
After the bananas are harvested the plant normally dies so using the stalks to make fibre is a bonus. <br />
<i>Manufacture</i><br />
The stalks are stripped and then boiled in an alkaline to soften and seperate the fibres. The very coarse fibres can be used for baskets, floor mats etc - less coarse for soft furnishings - the finest is spun for yarn and clothing and it has a natural sheen.<br />
Banana fibre is not often found in our clothing shops but about a decade ago there was a fad for unusual fibres in knitting yarns and I have knitted with a 'banana silk' yarn - it was very shiny and felt nice. I'm not sure how well it stood up to washing and wearing as the garment was gifted.<br />
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<b>Camel Hair</b> - we can dream! This is expensive stuff.<br />
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From the Bactrian Camel (2 humps) and Wikipedia lists Australia as being a significant supplier - I'm guessing that would be from feral camels.<br />
Camels molt every spring, so hair can be collected by hand - there are coarse guard hairs and the highly desirable soft undercoat. <br />
Has lovely natural colour so often used undyed but it takes dyestuff well. <br />
Camel hair is very warm and it lasts well. Often blended with sheep's wool and usually used for coats.<br />
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<b>Cashmere</b> - another luxury fibre - this one comes from the Cashmere goat & they originally came from Kashmir. There are several cashmere farms in Australia and even our own breed.<br />
Some sources of information say that only the neck hair is used and some breeds don't seem to have much 'body hair' but other breeds (such as the Australian Cashmere) are furry allover - so I'm uncertain about this. <br />
In some places the hair is combed out when the goats have their annual molt - in other places the goats are shorn ... again perhaps this depends on the breed. Cashmere goats are small animals so yield is small and I guess that is why the fibre is expensive.<br />
<i>Processing</i><br />
As with many animals, cashmeres have a double coat - the soft undercoat and the much courser guard hair - which has to be mechanically removed. Then the soft undercoat can be dyed, spun and made into lovely things.<br />
I have knitted with commercially spun cashmere yarn and I have hand-spun some cashmere too - it is so soft ... like spinning clouds.<br />
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<b>Cotton - </b>Humans have been wearing cotton for 1,000s of years and many of our modern clothes are made it - cotton accounts for about 30% of the world's textile market.<br />
Back in the 1980s cotton got a lot of press saying that is Natural (and therefore Good) - nowadays we are more likely to hear all about the environmental impact of growing cotton ... an interesting example of how our perceptions of a product are altered. Both things are true - and both focus on only one part of the story. <br />
<i>What is it?</i><br />
Most commercially grown cotton is Gossypi<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">um <span style="color: #3f3f3f;">hirsutum, first developed by the Mayan civilisation in Mexico. Botanically it belongs to the </span>family Malvaceae or Mallows and some of cotton's relatives </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">are: okra, cacao (the plant we get chocolate from), hibisc</span>us and hollyhocks.<br />
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wearing a cotton shirt and posing with a hollyhock flower </td></tr>
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The cotton boll (that's the bit we use) is a protective case that grows around the seeds - and that fibre is almost pure cellulose. </div>
<i>Producing / Growing it</i><br />
This info is mostly from Cotton Australia's web site - so it is Oz-centric. <br />
In 2014 Australia produced 501,000 metric tonnes of cotton, most is grown in southern Queensland and in NSW, from the Qld border down the Darling in the West and the Murrumbidgee in the South. Most processes for planting, harvesting etc are mechanised - but less so in some of the poorer countries where cotton is produced. <br />
Now there are a lot of scary stats out there - 'to make enough cotton for 1 T-shirt takes 2,700 litres of water and 1.5kg of pesticide and fertiliser' 'for 1kg of cotton (enough for a T-shirt and a pair of jeans) it'll take more that 20,000 litres of water' 'cotton production ... accounts for 10 to 16% of the world's pesticides (incl. herbicides, insecticides & defoliants' [the last quote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_cotton" target="_blank">from here</a>]<br />
All the numbers aside - it seems that cotton is thirsty, needs good soil or fertilisers and is prone to pests and diseases. <br />
<i>Processing it</i><br />
The mechanically harvested cotton is pressed into huge blocks and taken to a cotton gin where the seeds and trash are separated out. (We export the cottonseed to Asia & America for cattle feed.) The fluffy lint gets pressed into bales, Australian bales are 227kg and the bale covers are made from cotton knit fabric to minimise contamination - the cotton gets a cotton T-shirt of its own ;-) The cotton is classed and then almost all is sold to spinning mills overseas - mostly in Sth East Asia and China - China being our biggest customer. In the mills the cotton is combed, carded and spun - it is then woven or knitted into fabric. Cotton is often blended with other fibres.<br />
<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Dyeing</i><br />
Cotton is usually dyed at the yarn or fabric stage - cotton is a bit dye resistant and it takes a lot of dyestuff to make cotton a dark or strong colour. Seems those cool black jeans and groovy black T-shirt are not very 'green' - cotton also fades rather quickly.<br />
Modern dyes are a mix of many chemicals (even natural dyeing with leaves & things often requires a chemical mordant) and the run-off from dyeing textiles is an environmental concern. There are many reports of rivers turning strange colours and all the fish dying. <br />
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Interestingly, there are naturally coloured varieties of cotton - reds, yellow, browns, green ... perhaps we should use more of those!<br />
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Only now can the cotton be made into clothing - the denim into jeans, the chambray into shirts, the interlock into T-shirts etc etc. Most of the clothes in Australian shops are sewn in China, Sth East Asia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh ... places with cheap labour because sewing garments is labour intensive but it takes skill - most garments are sewn by women. Some garment factories are quite exploitative - let's not forget the collapse of the Rana Plaza - over 1,100 people died, most were working in the 5 garment factories in the plaza complex and would've been earning about $1.25 a day.<br />
And then the cotton does some more travelling to our shops and perhaps our wardrobes.<br />
<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">How should we look after it?</i><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">These days we've 'fast fashion' and cheap clothing - much of it made of cotton or cotton blends - so the question is almost 'why should we bother looking after it?' But that cheapness doesn't reflect the environmental cost - doesn't honour the skilled labour of the (mostly) women who sewed the clothes and it probably won't last. I hope eventually, to do a post (or 2) focusing on the care of clothing but a few quick words here. Consider washing clothes less often - if it isn't smelly or visibly dirty, perhaps you could wear it again. Use fewer chemicals in the washing machine ... do we really need fancy enzymes to clean our clothes? Use less washing powder and don't use fabric softener (it damages fibre). Don't tumble dry. Mend and recycle. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><i>Other thoughts </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Cotton can absorb up to 27 times its own weight in water and the fibre is actually stronger when wet. Cotton is a really useful fibre - perhaps that's why we've been using and wearing it for so long. All parts of the cotton plant are used - the seeds are used to make oil or animal feed, the linters (waste parts of the boll) can be used to make other fabrics (see <a href="http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/environmental-footprint-of-various.html" target="_blank">Acetate</a>) or things like cotton balls, the plant itself is usually mulched. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><i>Burning</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Cotton will burn like paper, blended cotton fabrics may behave differently.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "montserrat" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'times new roman', times, freeserif, serif;">What happens to it when it does go to land-fill? - the Grave</i><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Cotton is natural and biodegrades well.</span></span>
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<b>Organic Cotton</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLcQ61TrUKmi1g9-6coZHYO_3Xw5qY5ITPuh4GffiFzEez_yrXQCAFqNwnHVDSQ_WODLAf7IwOw_1xgkM0m4GfEJbXagcqXoTpTXpcyeJgG0RK3udG1r2uoYjPK1IbO-CTkZIJB4iPqc/s1600/ORGANIC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLcQ61TrUKmi1g9-6coZHYO_3Xw5qY5ITPuh4GffiFzEez_yrXQCAFqNwnHVDSQ_WODLAf7IwOw_1xgkM0m4GfEJbXagcqXoTpTXpcyeJgG0RK3udG1r2uoYjPK1IbO-CTkZIJB4iPqc/s200/ORGANIC.jpeg" width="200" /></a>So - we can't imagine life without cotton but the environmental cost bothers us - is organic cotton the answer? <br />
What does that 'organic' label mean? <br />
It should mean that the cotton was grown from non-genetically modified plants, without the use of synthetic agro chemicals. But then there is the processing and all those travel miles done by cotton grown here, processed and turned into garments somewhere in Asia (usually) and then shipped back to Australia. It isn't easy being green!!! However, products that use less of our planet's resources and properly regulated labelling (so that we can understand and trust it) ... that has to be a good thing.<br />
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<b>Cuprammonium Rayon </b>(also labeled <b>Bemberg, Cupro, Cupra, Ammonia Silk </b>) - I'll look at Rayon more when I get to R in this alphabetical list but a quick look at this form of rayon because personally I find it rather alarming and try to avoid buying it.<br />
<i>So What is it?</i><br />
Cuprammonium Rayon is made from cellulose (from plants like all the other rayons) dissolved in a solution of copper & ammonia, that solution gets mixed with caustic soda before being extruded into filaments - it is then hardened, most of the copper & the ammonia is removed and the caustic soda neutralised. The main concern is if (when?) that copper ends up in the waste water system.<br />
Cuprammonium rayon is no longer produced in the US due to the environmental effects - but other countries have less stringent regulations.<br />
<i>Where do we find it?</i><br />
I'm not sure how precise garment labelling is but look out for the words listed above - fabric content labels are usually sewn into the left-hand side seam. If you sew your own clothes, keep those names in mind is you plan to avoid Cuprammonium Rayon - about 10yrs ago I found Cupro on the label in the packaging of a new card of lace trim.<br />
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<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ohio_9-2" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"></sup><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-68629883581258543882016-11-22T11:54:00.002+11:002016-11-24T07:54:38.914+11:00Environmental Footprint of Various Fibres used in Clothing - Part 1I could be opening a can of worms with this post and setting the cat amongst the pigeons ... if you know something that I don't, or if I've left something out, please comment but - keep in mind that I do moderate the comments and if your comment is <i>im</i>moderate I'll simply delete it.<br />
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So why am I doing this? because it is something I am passionate about and a subject that keeps coming up when I am teaching - I teach various crafts, 'make do & mend' and up-cycling classes. And because it is so easy to get misled by all the mis-information, muddled information and advertising out there. I am not being paid to do this. My sources of income are rather various (such a modern woman am I! ) and in the interests of impartiality I should disclose that some of those classes I mentioned are for Morris & Sons who do have home-brand yarns ... but those yarns are of many different fibres processed in various countries. I don't think I can be accused of bias towards any one particular fibre. I do have personal opinions (don't we all? ) I'll try to make it clear when I'm airing a very personal viewpoint.<br />
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So what makes me think I know something about all this & have any right to do this? Firstly, I've spent a great deal of time trying to find sensible, un-biased information about the fibres we wear. It's not easy! I use fibre a lot - I make a variety of mostly fibre & fabricy things and have done so for over 40 decades - and doesn't that make me feel old! Perhaps I can put together a cradle-to-grave evaluation of most of the fibres used in our clothing and present something impartial, not too scientific and not too boring.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeNI8b7AkSsUEQ_r3KnzYlU1zi0UNYfLNk0wq2v3DmhMO292vvqGBiWysk-hxNcrd8oyvc0MF-gBsPbyBSJfXPEGmGM2YfYq3hXpI2C_xcXeJe7qED4RY8lvaQ1Ch4FjV0CzvmXO4kf0/s1600/Kermit.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeNI8b7AkSsUEQ_r3KnzYlU1zi0UNYfLNk0wq2v3DmhMO292vvqGBiWysk-hxNcrd8oyvc0MF-gBsPbyBSJfXPEGmGM2YfYq3hXpI2C_xcXeJe7qED4RY8lvaQ1Ch4FjV0CzvmXO4kf0/s320/Kermit.jpeg" width="255" /></a>But before I start - 2 observations. <br />
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1. When it comes to clothing - it isn't easy being green ...<br />
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2. A great deal of the environmental impact of our clothing lies with the end user - that's you & me. The person who buys, wears, washes, irons (?) mends, re-purposes, and ultimately decides when and how that garment is disposed of. But all that belongs to another post ... perhaps I'll be brave enough to do that one too.<br />
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Listing is alphabetical and because it is going to be much longer than I initially hoped - it'll go over several posts<br />
I will update it as I discover more information (this will be a learning curve for me)<br />
I'm Australian<br />
I knit a lot (so I'll look at fibres often made into yarns but perhaps not so often found in commercial clothing)<br />
I've tried to cover all aspects 'from cradle to grave'.<br />
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<b>Acetate (</b>might be labeled<b> Celanese, Avisco, Bemsilk) </b>- Acetate / Cellulose Acetate used to be considered of form of Rayon but they are now listed separately.<br />
<i>What is it?</i><br />
A semi-synthetic - it starts with plant material (usually wood pulp or cotton linters (waste from milling)) but is then processed with chemicals ... <br />
Acetate has a long history dating back to 1865 and the uses for forms of cellulose acetate are amazingly various. Some of these are historical, some are quite current: photographic film, filters in cigarettes, lacquer (aka dope) to stiffen the fabric of early aeroplanes, magnetic tape for computers, glasses frames, fibre tipped pens (textas etc), high absorbency products (disposable baby nappies, feminine hygiene, surgical products), playing cards, the original Lego bricks were made of it (till 1963), toys & model animals, award ribbons ... all those sashes for Miss World & Miss Universe & for all the other Best in Shows ... <br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Manufacturing - the Cradle</i><br />
This will get a bit scientific and I'm not a scientist but I think that basically the plant material is deconstructed into a cellulose by using acetic acid (vinegar is 3-9% acetic acid), acetic anhydride and sulfiric acid. That sulphate is removed with water then the cellulose gets dissolved in acetone (nail polish remover) to make a viscous resin which can be extruded into fine cellulose acetate fibres.<br />
<i>Dyeability</i><br />
Acetate needs a disperse dye but it takes to colour well and should be quite colourfast.<br />
<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">What is it used for? Where will we find it in our wardrobes?</i><br />
Often used for lining garments - sold under the name Bemsilk in the fabric shops. It has a nice shine so is often used for satins, taffetas etc in bridal and evening wear. Is also used blended with other fibres.<br />
<i>How should we look after it?</i><br />
Acetate is resistant to mold & mildew (a bonus in Sydney). But Acetate doesn't take well to heat - so never tumble dry and take care when / if ironing. It loses strength when wet and dry-cleaning is recommended. It doesn't like abrasion so avoid rubbing. May be damaged by some of the things in perfumes - is damaged by nail polish remover. So if you get nail polish or super glue on acetate don't use nail polish remover as you might dissolve the fabric. Best to embroider or appliqué something over the top! <br />
<i>Concerns & Bonuses</i><br />
Made from renewable resource and/or cotton waste ... but let us hope that those trees are replanted. In the past the chemicals used often went into the waste water system ... let's hope that no longer happens everywhere that Acetate is being produced.<br />
<i>Burning </i><br />
Acetate burns like paper ... it is processed cellulose.<br />
<i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;">What happens to it when it does go to land-fill? - the Grave</i><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Acetate biodegrades well.</span><br />
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<b>Acrylic </b><br />
<i>What is it?</i><br />
Synthetic / man made - a polymer / plastic. Strange words here - acrylonitrile (aka vinyl cyanide) monomer, vinyl acetate or methyl acrylate comonomer. DuPont made the first acrylic fibres in 1941. <br />
<i>Manufacturing - the Cradle</i><br />
As with most plastics, there are environmental concerns in their manufacture (google those strange words & see below)<br />
<i>What is it used for? Where will we find it in our wardrobes?</i><br />
Acrylic is used as an artificial wool - it is manufactured as a filament that is cut into short staple lengths (to imitate wool) and then spun into yarn for hand knitting / crochet and for commercial knit-wear. <br />
On the positive: it is cheap, it survives careless washing (hot water and strong detergents) better than sheep's wool.<br />
On the negative: those chopped lengths can pill badly, and personally - as a hand knitter I don't like using acrylic yarn - it feels like plastic.<br />
Acrylic is also used in home furnishings, wigs and fake fur. <br />
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{aside: I've been yelled at by animal rights types when wearing (very obviously) fake fur and I have enjoyed yelling back that it is Acrylicus Fakus ... clubbed to death in the Antarctic ... those poor little baby Acryicus Fakuses ...}<br />
<i>How should we look after it?</i><br />
Acrylic is quite robust in the wash though it often pills. Avoid heat in drying - don't iron it.<br />
<i>Other Concerns</i><br />
Fire - Acrylic burns like plastic (gives off nasty fumes and goes to hot melted stuff that'll stick to you). There is Modacrylic - modified to be fire retardant but that process involves more forms of vinyl that are hazardous.<br />
Cancer - acrylic fabrics may cause cancer! Those strange words above sure look scary to me and vinyl cyanide is a carcinogen and mutagen. Not good for people working where it is made and possibly not good to live with.<br />
Pollution from washing - acrylic fabric releases lots of tiny synthetic particles when washed - our washing water often ends up in the oceans ... see "Concerns" towards the end of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylic_fiber" target="_blank">this wikipedia article</a><br />
<i>Recycling / Repurposing </i><br />
When your acrylic garment gets too shabby to wear even around the house, there are things you can do to keep it from land-fill and here are some ideas. The better parts could be made into toys, or clothes for dolls. Chop it into small bits and use as 'stuffing' (very useful for draught stoppers / door-snakes). I wouldn't recommend using it as a polishing cloth as acrylic tends to scratch but it might make good cleaning cloths, or cut into strips and use to tie up unruly plants in the garden.<br />
<i>What happens to it when it does go to land-fill? - the Grave</i><br />
It's plastic, not readily biodegradable. <br />
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<b>Alpaca</b><br />
<i>What is it?</i><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknSkvqLswXvM7kbRFukFyOFSmKf9bmqXr8DhWEb9kh78U_5rKHtQoFot4CkwHVtkFwv5dTBWP0JSQtoX6Xew7qftKC6-JDWS_bPK6UaaHaj3Kj6t71BqxPq5UXZLfkmxqwPAvTL5Iezg/s1600/Dougal.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>A natural fibre from the alpaca, a camelid from Sth America, scientific name Vicugna pacos, bred for thousands of years for their fibre and meat, there are no known wild alpacas. There are 2 types - Huacaya and Suri, the Suri look like they have dreadlocks, or like Dougal from the Magic Roundabout only with long legs and a long neck ...<br />
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<i>Environmental footprint</i><br />
What is the environmental impact of alpacas? Well, they have padded feet rather than hard hooves, they require less food than most animals of their size, are said not to damage root systems ... so all that sounds better for the environment than sheep. Fly strike is not an issue, so no mulesing (much better than sheep). Interesting animals, they use a communal dung pile where they do not graze and this behaviour tends to limit the spread of internal parasites. They have a 3-chambered stomach and chew cud ... so they get maximum nutrients from low quality food. Gestation on average is 11.5 months (wow!) with one baby (rarely twins), they can live to 20 yrs. More info on Alpacas in Australia <a href="https://www.alpaca.asn.au/index.php/resources/faqs?catid=2&limitstart=0" target="_blank">here</a><br />
<i>Shearing</i><br />
Alpacas are shorn once a year, using the same electric shears as for sheep. Alpacas can kick and spit so in Australia they are usually lain on their sides on the ground or on a table (better for the shearer's back!) with their legs tethered ... known spitters might get a sock over their noses. All that sounds unpleasant but most animals go into a sort of trance while being shorn - the submission of a prey species? or perhaps it tickles? <br />
<i>Processing</i><br />
It seems that a lot of the alpaca produced in Australia is sold to hand spinners or as specialty yarn to crafts people for knitting and weaving. There are a small number of mills that will process alpaca fleece. Alpaca is not greasy like sheep's wool, so it is easier and takes less water & detergent to clean. <br />
Commercial mills have heavy machinery so energy use is a consideration - home spinners run on cups of tea and ginger-nut biscuits.<br />
Alpaca can be dyed with the same dyestuffs as sheep's wool (protein dyes) but Alpacas came in some really gorgeous natural colours - from soft greys through lovely gingers to strong blacks.<br />
Baby Alpaca - we often see this on yarn labels - it doesn't actually relate to the age of the animal. It means that the alpaca fibre is 21 - 23 microns - fine and soft.<br />
<i>What is it used for? Where will we find it in our wardrobes?</i><br />
Mostly we find alpaca in the yarn store and it is lovely to knit with. You might also find garments made of alpaca, mostly in craft-shops & speciality stores. Not all that yarn or fabric will be from Australia alpacas - much of it comes from Sth America. <br />
Notes for fellow crafters: alpaca yarn behaves differently to sheep's wool, it has beautiful drape but doesn't have the same 'return' after stretching. It is lovely for loose fitting garments and for shawls and scarves (where you can enjoy the soft handle) but alpaca is not so good when a snug fit is required. Unless treated (label will say machine-wash) it will felt, full, shrink (all basically the same thing) but the scales are small so it takes longer than sheep's wool.<br />
<i>How should we look after it?</i><br />
Knitwear should be stored folded - not hanging. Gentle wash, preferably by hand, in luke warm water with very little soap (yellow laundry soap is best) do not rub, support garment when lifting it from the water. Rinse well. Pop into an old pillow-case and knot the top and spin dry. Never tumble dry. If you do not have a gentle spin dryer you can roll garment in dry towels and press out the excess water. Dry laid flat on clean dry towels away from direct sunshine. It shouldn't need ironing.<br />
<i>Burning</i><br />
Like wool, alpaca burns slowly and will self extinguish if direct flame is removed. There is little smoke but it smells like burnt hair (because that's what it is).<br />
<i>What happens to it when it does go to land-fill? - the Grave</i><br />
It is natural and will break down.<br />
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<b>Angora</b><br />
<i>What is it?</i><br />
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<i>Environmental paw-print</i><br />
If you've ever kept a pet rabbit you know that they are quite cheap to maintain. Feral rabbits are a problem in Australia but I doubt a fluffy angora rabbit would last long in the wild here.<br />
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OK - this is the concern ... in 2013 PETA released a video showing dreadful treatment of angoras in China. At the time 90% of commercial angora fibre came from China. Apparently the problem starts with the breed of Angora ... seems that it was a bad joke after all! This <a href="http://blog.loveknitting.com/angora-wool-is-it-cruel/" target="_blank">blog article</a> explains things rather well but I'll try to do a 'Readers' Digest version' here. <br />
The English and French angora rabbits shed their coats and the fibre is harvested by gently combing out the old fluff as the new coat grows in. "A time consuming process, best done over several days" ... I think people in Australia usually keep these breeds as pets and to use the fluff for their own hand spinning. The German or Giant angora doesn't shed and needs to be shorn - most commercial angora comes from this breed. Now I'm not going to watch that PETA video but apparently it showed rabbits being plucked like chickens and claims they were kept in filthy cages. Perhaps PETA found a rogue angora farmer because it doesn't really make sense to me - angora is expensive fibre, you would want to keep your rabbits (and their fluff) nice and clean. This breed should be shorn every 3 months, they are productive animals, why would anyone terrorise, hurt or damage a good source of income. <br />
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Angora rabbits can and should be shorn without hurting them ... however, it is impossible not to laugh at a freshly shorn angora.<br />
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<i>What is it used for? Where will we find it in our wardrobes?</i><br />
Angora is a lovely luxury fibre; it is (and should be) expensive. Angora is actually finer and softer than cashmere! We find it in knitting yarn and occasionally in garments. If you are concerned about those PETA claims it might be difficult to avoid Chinese angora in ready-made clothing (though price might be a guide). There are Australian and humane suppliers of angora fluff for hand-spinning and angora yarn for knitting. <br />
Note: because angora has a short staple and because it is expensive, it is usually blended with other fibres.<br />
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Personally, I still have dreams of owning a few angora rabbits and using their fluff to spin enough yarn to knit myself a classic 1950s style twin set. <br />
<i>How should we look after it?</i><br />
Angora is delicate - you don't want it to shed all the soft fluff. In the past, people put their angora knitwear in the refrigerator. Not sure I would do that - but I would store folded, not hanging. Gentle hand wash, in luke warm water with very little soap (yellow laundry soap is best) never rub, support garment when lifting it from the water. Rinse well. Roll garment in dry towels and press out the excess water. Dry laid flat on clean dry towels away from direct sunshine. Don't iron.<br />
<i>What happens to it when it does go to land-fill? - the Grave</i><br />
Angora is so expensive I'm not sure I want to think about this ... but it is natural and will break down.<br />
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<b>Art Silk - artificial silk </b>- an early name for Rayon and an example of clever marketing ... I'm not sure if the Art Silk of the 1920s was what we now call Acetate or another form of Rayon.<br />
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A little Dolly Story post today ... because this parcel arrived ...</div>
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The first out of the big cardboard box was a red-head ... Zucchini Flower, Julia and Petal rushed to meet her.<br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">A few things to note during the de-boxing - </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">her feet were tied with ribbon! so much nicer than wire.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And in the bag with her stand was a Blythe Coin? </span><br />
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Because - she is a squirrel.<br />
Takara released "Squiggly Squirrel" in February 2008 - already 8 years old<br />
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I'm calling her <span class="title"> </span><br />
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<span class="title">Cecilia because it is the most sibilant name I can think of, Squiggle after the Wendy Boston squirrel I have had since I was a bub and </span><span class="title"><a data-rapid_p="187" href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Ècureuil because that is French for squirrel and a word I find completely unpronounceable.</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And I'll interrupt the little 'uns here - This doll is a 'Totally Tartan' released by Takara in September 2003, PBL-22, quite an early petite. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">And despite plastic wrapped tight about her arms (it was difficult to remove) the black trim on her dress has stained her shoulders. These things happen - even when NFRB these dolls can deteriorate - plastic is never completely stable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"> Personally I don't mind, in fact, those stained shoulders helped me find her name ... Fenella MacTavish. Fenella means 'white shoulders' - and MacTavish because it sounds like swirling tartan & bagpipes with haggis.</span><br />
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Fenella: "Hello but I'm sorrry you'rre all a blurrr to me - I'm rrreally short sighted ..."<br />
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Bird: "Here, you had best have your handbag too ... Now, let me introduce you to Margaret and Vivien ... "<br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I love the way the dress is cut-away at the back to reveal the red lace frills of the petticoat - it also has red bead 'buttons' at the back. </span><br />
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Although it caused staining I rather like her outfit - the little dress and helmet are black velvet - decorated with silver stars on chains and the dress has <i>petite</i> embroidered across the front - the boots are painted on. I also really love her pursed up little smile - just like my daughter's when she was very little - I called it her 'triangular smile'. <br />
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<span class="title">Tabitha was worried: "Is she ill?"</span><br />
<span class="title">Chloe: "Nah! Viccy is just a baby, she is always needing a nap."</span><br />
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<span class="title">They are - Victoria Amelia (Pajama Party keychain version), Tabitha d'Khat, Chloe (Clionetti) and Wilhelmina Blue (a customised 'Spirit & Spice).</span><br />
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Perhaps I have a 'thing' for petites with green eyes & red lippy?</div>
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Vivien Lee is a Rosie Red keychain version - so not sleepy eyes and as you can see, her eyelashes are quite different, her lips are also slightly larger, Tabitha's lips are darker and look a bit smaller even than Fenella's ... giving her that 'triangular smile'. <br /><br />
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And to end this post - a group photo with all 14 of the little 'uns - 12 Takara Petites, 2 LPS and 1 LPS on an Obitsu 11cm body. I like the number 14 - perhaps this is now my complete collection of petites or perhaps this is just ...<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-59349110935144513542015-05-25T15:03:00.000+10:002015-05-25T15:03:44.879+10:00The Smallest Room of the Dolls' House is Finished<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OXuS8HTslPd53rfCZ34lzrYX4zcaMbtRAwFKHm_oh36Imet-XJswkHQ-m7WVkaunUi28Za_ydmBLRF1shXeYvXjRo5eTENxIoopiGCTHTnuGgjxt6fnYaErbwsFFzTiX0qtHtJIH5R4/s1600/bathroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OXuS8HTslPd53rfCZ34lzrYX4zcaMbtRAwFKHm_oh36Imet-XJswkHQ-m7WVkaunUi28Za_ydmBLRF1shXeYvXjRo5eTENxIoopiGCTHTnuGgjxt6fnYaErbwsFFzTiX0qtHtJIH5R4/s400/bathroom.jpg" width="227" /></a>My cabinet dolls' house has been an on-going project for nearly 30yrs and this is the first room that I am declaring - Finished - Done - Complete. It is the smallest room.<br />
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The dolls' house was started for my daughter but she quickly dis-owned it and over the years, many things that we could not afford in the renovations of our actual house (or that were simply too grandiose) I did in the mini house.<br />
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Victorian era prettily painted bathroom fittings were one of those things - indeed in the full-scale house there isn't even enough space to have a bathtub! But the bathroom set was one of the first things I bought for the dolls' house... I painted all the flowers on about 12yrs ago<br />
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The doll's house bathroom has marble tiled floor, fancy tiles (I painted those flowers too!) and a view of <span class="st">Pont Alexandre III out the window. Well, every house should have a view of a Parisian bridge from the bathroom window!! </span><span class="st"></span><br />
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Some things I made myself. The light-fitting is Fimo, towels & face cloth sewn from a stretch toweling baby onesie, lots of beads... <br />
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Enjoying a sense of closure here - just so long as I don't think about the other 8 rooms!<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-81860311568743186582015-01-24T12:26:00.001+11:002015-01-24T12:26:31.741+11:00A Sewing Space of My Own AgainWe spent the first few weeks of this year sorting, de-stashing, rearranging and I once again have a sewing / creating space ...<br />
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It is cozy rather than spacious but I've natural light and access to all my machines and a little ironing space / cutting table ... Also ... I can now find things again.<br />
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Had fun with the 2 sizes of this print and the pale green really suits my GD. <br />
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However, I was really glad I checked the bodice before I sewed it up - it would've nearly fitted me! Added some tucks (had to remove
7cm - 2.8" in width) then we went to All Buttons Great & Small (love that shop!) and got buttons to match
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The pattern looks recent though I found it 2nd hand - Simplicity 2994.<br />
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Back home we got out the box of feathers and
he chose this collection ... a partial red-dyed chicken feather, a tuft
of white ostrich, a tan brown chicken feather that curves the wrong way
and a spotty guinea fowl feather .... I must say that all together they
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I'm also making daughter a race-day hat -<br />
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Well it isn't going to look like that - though I really like that wind-swept look. I blocked that very old felt (a failed hat) it'll be the base / the foundation ... covered with fabric and lots of frou-frou.</div>
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Now, this might be one of the cheapest hats ever - the felt & wire were an old millinery failure, the fabrics & veiling were 'gleaned' from the rubbish bins at Tafe, some of the flowers were gifted, some bought about 30yrs ago. The only 'new-buy' for this hat was the blue bell shaped flowers ($2.50 for the bunch). <br />
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So happy to be able to make something from all the stash that I can now find with ease following the great big tidy-up. And perhaps an advert for never throwing stuff out ??? though 30yrs maturation in stash could be seen as a little excessive.<br />
Of course, when 'gleaning' from bins you find that trash sometimes needs a little TLC to restore to 'Treasure'. <br />
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The finished hat (shown on an old 'head' shape that has no hair!) <br />
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Recently I mended this hand-knit jumper / sweater ... it really has had a life! All those safety pins mark holes or areas of weakened yarn, about to become a hole. There was a huge laddered area on one sleeve and some of the seams had gone. (I must also apologise for the photos showing this jumper as all sorts of shades of green - different light at different times of the day and my having to use a phone camera - my digital one died!)<br />
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Re-sewing up seams is easy enough - use mattress stitch. Sometimes the trickiest part of mending an old hand-knit is finding new yarn to match the old. Going for a thinner yarn is always a good idea - I used a lace weight variegated yarn (Schoppel-Wolle) selecting the parts where the green was almost the same shade.<br />
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Sewing up the under-arms again - and in this photo you can see some old mends done by someone else a long time ago.<br />
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I left one of those old mends & strengthened it but re-did the other - and this photo shows the front of the jumper with all mends and strengthening done. This is pre-washing - blocking and some of those specks of paint didn't come out with a simple wash.<br />
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Such an old, much worn and loved knit will never look brand new again - but it can be given many more years of usefulness.<br />
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Here is how to mend an area that has gone to ladders.<br />
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First - catch all the stitches at the top and bottom to stop them laddering further. Putting them onto safety pins works well - <br />
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Now re-knit up those ladders - and this is the same technique you use if you've dropped a stitch while hand-knitting.<br />
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Take one of those stitches from the bottom of the area onto a crochet hook and thinking of those loose strands as rungs on a ladder, work them up, one rung at a time, taking care to get the 'rungs' in the correct order. <br />
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In case you are wondering - that isn't even an official crochet hook. Everyone under the age of 12 seems to be making "Loom Bands" these days and most bags of those little elastic bands come with a hook ...<br />
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When re-knitting up a ladder you are working a sort of chain stitch - hook goes through the loop of the stitch, hold in front of the lowest 'rung', catch rung and pull it through loop - and it becomes your new loop, hold it in front of the next rung ... ... repeat till you get to the top. Where you will need a sewing needle and matching yarn to stitch together the stitch / loop from your ladder and the corresponding stitch at the top of the area being mended. <br />
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Most of these laddered areas start from a hole and you will probably find some broken yarn somewhere in the middle ... sewing needle & yarn will be needed there.<br />
This photo shows the mend pre-washing<br />
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And now, after a wash ... a few more washes and I think the mend might be practically invisible.<br />
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Yesterday was a very big mail day ....<br />
First some Takara stock clothes arrived - I've been buying some of the older stock outfits for my girls as the quality was really good back then! (and I must apologise for the low quality of these photos, my digital camera died and I'm using the phone camera now.)<br />
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My girls got a very nearly complete set of the stock for "I Love You It's True" (yep, Takara does do some odd names!) Lots of pretty items in shades of blue plus sandals, funny pink socks and pretty undies (we like pretty undies!). Also, most of the red evening outfit from "Love Mission" - evening dress, bustier, shawl and red shoes.<br />
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While Audrey and Imogen were trying on the new outfits another parcel arrived!<br />
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Audrey adores red shoes!!<br />
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Audrey: "Uh, now I can't bend, quick Imi, do up my shoe then we'll help Meerkat with the new parcel."<br />
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Meerkat: "I don't think this is yet more clothes ... it looks like a box here."<br />
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Imogen: "What, another sister! Nah, that's quite small."<br />
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Imogen: "Ooooo nice cheese."<br />
Audrey: "Hmmm, a shopping trolley, I guess that'll be useful for grocery shopping! Nice red apple though."<br />
Meerkat: "Bread - and it smells so good."<br />
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From inside the box, very muffled: "Hello there - can anyone hear me ... Hello ..." <br />
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Zucchini Flower: "Hi there, we can hear you, we'll get you out of there. (quieter) She's another <i>proper</i> petite - I won't be the only Takara little one now."<br />
Julia: "I guess this is why our Mummy Giant bought the extra crochet dress, wondered why she bought 4 sets when there were 3 of us."<br />
Hilda: "Yes - there are matching bloomers too ..."<br />
Meerkat - very quietly: "Lah dee dah - this baguette is going to be yummy with my new tapenade ..." <br />
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Zucchini Flower: "She has a nice dress already - but I think she likes pink things." <br />
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Julia (in the middle): "Looks like she's been in that box for Ages and Ages."<br />
Annabella, still in the box: "A whole 9 years girls - I'm a 2005 release. And I really want to be released ... please hurry!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zucchini: "Annabella, you<b><i> are</i></b> like me - you've 2tone hair too and pretty coloured eyes like me."</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Meanwhile, Julia and Hilda have found Annabella's pet / backpack ...<br />
Julia: "Is it a rabbit or a kangaroo?"<br />
Hilda: "hmmm, very confusing, the ears could be either and she has a pouch ... but no tail at all!! We'll have to ask Auntie Bunny, she'll know."<br />
(ed: Bunny is a Neo Blythe "Welcome Winter" and very knowledgeable about all the different breeds of rabbits) <br />
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Her stock dress and bonnet are really pretty, as is her pet / backpack BunnyRoo.</div>
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She has lovely violet coloured eyes and 2tone blond hair that curls.</div>
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We can unravel (un-knit) unwanted things and use the yarn to knit something new - the bottle green yarn here was once one of my hubby's jumpers (sweater). <br />
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We can make yarn from rather unlikely sources -<br />
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those dreadfully polluting non-biodegradable plastic shopping bags can be cut into strips -<br />
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They call it 'Plarn' - and this little bowl only took about 2hrs to knit up!<br />
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Plarn is possibly better suited to crochet but I've seen rather nice bags made from it (both in knitting & in crochet) and I've seen it used to make a picnic rug - wonderful idea!<br />
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We can also cut old Tshirts into strips that can be knitted or crocheted - and woven fabric too can be cut into strips, just cut it on the bias so it doesn't fray completely away.<br />
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Old jumpers (sweaters) can also be used for the fabric of them - the jumper that shrank in the wash is ideal for reuse as it won't unravel when cut and the fabric is relatively stable and won't stretch under the sewing machine. Shrunken knitting can be sewn into all sorts of things, from beanies to dog jackets but what about the old, unwanted jumper that won't shrink?<br />
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This grass-green jumper is a commercial knit in a blended yarn that is mostly plant fibre - it wasn't going to shrink no matter how mean I treated it. It has pilled badly but I like the colour - I also like the fancy stuff at the wrists ...<br />
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Ahuh! turned in-side-out there is no pilling and the texture is nice<br />
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The largest area of usable fabric is from the hem to the underarms - a tube that is roughly square ... and about the same size as this old cushion that is in need of re-covering.<br />
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Now - because this jumper would not shrink / it has not fulled (to use the old terminology) if I cut into this it will start to unravel. <br />
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So I'm going to sew along that chalk line first - then, when I cut the knitting it will unravel only as far as the machine stitching ...<br />
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Now I need to sew that end together ...<br />
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You can see that I'm sewing just inside the previous stitching, and the new right sides (old wrong sides) are together - there are 2 layers now. The knitting is going to get all stretched and distorted going under the machine foot - so I'm gently pushing it under ... <br />
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My cushion is not as wide as the ex-jumper so I will re-seam the sides but first I need to re-arrange things at the hem so I can fasten the cushion nicely. Snip the seams for about 4cm (not quite 2")<br />
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Overlap and pin together (do this on both sides) - then with the now right sides together I stitched down the sides ...<br />
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The rest of that side of the cushion cover is left open but will have fastenings ... a zip? too fussy<br />
buttons? too hard to make the buttonholes <br />
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Then I sewed some soft 'underwear' elastic on the inside ...<br />
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Because what I've made are 'wrist-warmers' or false sleeve ends - they stop the cold wind going up the sleeve of your coat and hide half your hands (which is good when your hands are old & crinkly like mine!)<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-37442322306137262172014-07-21T16:08:00.001+10:002014-07-21T16:08:45.975+10:00Lori goes to UniversityLori Flower is the Traveller from the Sydney BlytheFest, she was customised by aniO and she is visiting us for a few weeks ...<br />
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Vistors get pressies from their hosts and here Lori is modelling the outfit I'm giving her. I knitted the dress, sewed the cap & made the necklace - shoes & socks are purchased.</div>
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Maddie has explained that she studies hard because she wants to go to University ...<br />
So Lori wanted to find out more about this University place ...<br />
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We went for a walk down King Street<br />
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And Lori & I had great fun guessing at the animals some of the gargoyles are based on ...<br />
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Surely this gargoyle was based on someone who annoyed the person who carved it - or is this the mythical student from the depths of the Fisher Library?</div>
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As you can see from the clocks it was late afternoon and the side-ways sunlight was hitting the sandstone and turning it lovely golden colours. In the past, when most of the largest buildings in the city of Sydney were the ones made of sandstone, Sydney was nick-named The Golden City.<br />
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One last Gargoyle and one of my favourites from the quad - he reminds me of Tom Baker, the best Dr Who.<br />
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I showed Lori the famous jacaranda tree inside the Quad - not in flower at the moment ...<br />
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And we admired some of the lovely lead-light and stained-glass windows...</div>
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Then Lori and I went for a wander about the University campus ... round the side of the quad is the War Memorial Archway. </div>
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A bit further on we found some camellia bushes splendidly, massively in flower ...</div>
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Lori wearing a pink race-day "facinator" ?</div>
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Because Lori actually had on her new 'engineer's cap' we thought it fitting that we should visit the <span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Peter Nicol Russell Memorial ...</span></div>
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where Lori had a well deserved rest ...<br />
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The first is the most spectacular and quite a common visitor to Sydney gardens though this year they've been quite large and gorgeous - <a href="http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/papi/aegeus.html" target="_blank"><i>Papilio aegeus</i></a>, commonly known as the Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly or Large Citrus Butterfly (because the caterpillars eat citrus leaves). </div>
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She - this is a lady, the males look quite different - has visited the garden a few times in the past few weeks (or there is more than one) about 10cm across and a delightful visitor.</div>
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This little butterfly / moth is a perfect leaf green - it was in our bathroom one evening quite recently - only 3-4 cm across. Those antennas look butterfly-like but - it was flying about at night and those fringed wing edges make me think that perhaps it is a <i>Geometer</i> moth? but I'm no expert on these things.<br />
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Now for a beetle - a wonderfully patterned little thing. On our 'Stumpy Gold' Banksia and ...<br />
Update: With helps from wonderful folks on Flickr I've been able to identify this bug :-)<br />
<br />Class:Insecta<br />Order:Hemiptera<br />Family:Reduviidae<br />Genus:Pristhesancus<br />Species:plagipennis<br /><br />
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Common Name:Assassin Bug - if you are another insect this beetle is one to avoid!<br />Mine isn't an adult - but an instar or nymph. These beetles change a lot from one moulting to the next. See this site for more info: <a href="http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Assassin-Bug/Pristhesancus/plagipennis.html" target="_blank">OzAnimals</a>.<br />
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Finally this little darling is <a href="http://www.aussiebee.com.au/beesinyourarea.html#bluebandedbees" target="_blank">a native bee</a> - the Blue Banded Bee <i>(Amegilla)</i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">.</span></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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They've been visiting our rosemary and lavender bushes that are in flower at the moment. Usually very fast and impossible to photograph this one landed on a bit of spider web and had to free herself - which she did - no insects were harmed in the making of this blog post! :-) <div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-40835600963325775532013-12-17T16:07:00.000+11:002013-12-17T16:07:07.656+11:00Upcycling : or How an Angel was MadeBefore I get to the angel I'd like to talk about a little 'gleaning'*<br />
I don't know whether to be grateful that someone threw this lovely vintage wool blanket out in a pile of rubbish or to be appalled that someone could simply throw out a wool blanket. <br />
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I'm grateful I found it before a dog lifted its leg on the pile of rubbish! <br />
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I gave it a good wash and hung it out in the sun-shine for a few days to kill any germs. <br />
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Thank you very much, whoever you are, for the free vintage wool blanket in great condition. But next time perhaps you should give your unwanted blankets to an Op Shop - if I hadn't gone past and spotted it, this lovely blanket might have ended up in land-fill! and what a waste that would've been!<br />
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We haven't done a proper Christmas tree for years and this year I decided that I wanted a <i>nice</i> tree - the tree I'd planned decades ago as a child. A white tree with blue decorations. </div>
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Finding a small white tree was really difficult. Getting blue baubles was easy. Then for the topper - I like an angel for the top of my tree but I just couldn't find one - plenty of star toppers but no angels! </div>
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It looked like I would have to make my own ... <br />
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Angel toppers often have a body / dress that is basically a cone (because that's where the top of the tree goes ... oooops!) and I had a couple of cardboard cones (they had string on them - the string that I used to knit the Zebra costumes for The Lion King ... but that's another story) </div>
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Even Angels need heads ... and it just so happens that I had a spare doll head (left over from<a href="http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/lillians-new-body-plastic-surgery-drama.html" target="_blank"> Lillian's body transplant</a>) </div>
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That is the bottom part of the dress over the cone (the lace stitch gave a nice wavy edge) the sleeves and collar. The collar is needed because this angel is going to have no neck.</div>
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Worked the dress in the round only as far as the wings would go ... here it is on the cone - the glitter-glued wings have been hot-glued to the cone.</div>
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I've given her a romantic sort of up-do hair-style. Her long hair would've hidden the wings!</div>
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Progressing - I managed to hot-glue her head with a sweet little tilt, the collar effectively hides her lack of neck, I've stitched the sleeves on with the edges turned in so they sit out a little and look a little like there might be arms inside.<br />
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The hair is very messy at the back but that is OK because she will have a halo. <br />
A bit of circular knitting - here it is being 'blocked' <br />
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So I got out my bag of upholstery fabric scraps - did a bit of patch-work - replicated the original corded edge and made more of a feature of it by using thick cord and contrasting fabric ...</div>
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It is nice again - here is the underside - the new fabric cover, like the original vinyl, simply ties on. This means that it will be washable - bonus.<br />
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Feeling quite virtuous about this little example of "fix it don't dump it" and I'm sitting on the renewed stool right now as I type this post :-)<br />
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The teasers from the previous post - are all finished and listed on my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlytheStar" target="_blank">BlytheStar</a> Etsy shop. </div>
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Yes, cute Christmas outfits - dresses & hats in Bright Red and Emerald Green</div>
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The felt fabric makes the circle+ skirts sit out really cutely and the organza ribbon trim has a nice little twinkle ... my girls had heaps of fun modelling these outfits<br />
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Following the success of last year's Christmas Gnome hat (it sold within a few days!) I thought I might start a tradition and knit one every year ... here is the 2013 edition<br />
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A darker red this year and a little mohair at the head band for that cozy softness - the fair-isle or jacquard patterns include my favourite snowflakes, some delicate daisy flowers and sweet love-hearts.<br />
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My Gnome hats are really long and can be worn flopping over or standing straight up in the air!<br />
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The count-down to Christmas has started !!!<br />
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Now with those colours it is obviously something Christmassy ... and yes, the white organza ribbon gets to be frilly on the edges ...<br />
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Nah - sorry, but this is not correct, I'm not making fancy little Christmas trees ...</div>
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If you are a Blythe doll person - keep an eye on my Etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlytheStar" target="_blank">BlytheStar</a> to find out what these really are :-)</div>
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A few months ago this cutie came to live with me - a Rosie Red BL Blythe. Ruby is perfect in every way except that a previous owner had chopped into her hair and given her a rather wonky fringe (bangs). She was still very cute but ...<br />
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so I researched all the Blythe Forums and thought that I could probably manage a partial re-root to restore Ruby's hairstyle.<br />
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But I was too scared to do the scalp removal myself especially as the BLs have a reputation of being difficult to scalp. So I sent Ruby to the <a href="http://allforblythe.storenvy.com/" target="_blank">wonderfully knowledgeable Natalie</a> to have day-surgery.<br />
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Meanwhile I bought some Saran doll hair - in the end from <a href="http://www.mylittlecustoms.com/" target="_blank">this on-line shop</a> because the photos gave a decent idea of the colours.<br />
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I had decided to practice on my Dawn dolls ...<br />
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For Dawn, I bought some "Honey Blonde" because I thought it looked pretty - it doesn't match her original hair but compliments it rather nicely (I think). I don't really like Dawn's original hair colour - it looks almost green in some light!<br />
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Thread up the needle with as much hair as you can get into the needle, stab into her head taking the needle out thru the neck, turn needle about and stab from the inside this time. Pull tightish, and cut (leave it longer than you want it to be when trimmed properly).<br />
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Stabbing from the inside is more difficult to get accurate so when accuracy is required (i.e. the hairline at the front) do that with the 1st stab. <br />
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So, I could manage an easy partial re-root but Glori needed a whole new head of hair.<br />
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First for the radical cut - and I found that putting her head on the end of a pencil was better than holding her face and potentially damaging her further.<br />
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Glori needed to stay a red-head but a nice red rather than the brassy carrot colour she was originally - I bought a lovely red called "Ruby Tuesday".<br />
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Through the re-rooting process Glori was quite a Wild Woman!!<br />
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Definitely Spa-Time for the little dolls ...<br />
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With head-bands on they've been dipped in nearly boiling water - just the tops of their heads. You don't want to damage makeup or loosen the glue holding in LPS eyes or those wonderful Topper dawn eyelashes.<br />
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Well Glori will need some more boil perms before her fringe sits flat - but she is looking a whole lot better than when she came to me.<br />
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The chain stitch made it easy to remove the chopped hair - would be easy to go too far. Reminded me of mending 1920's beaded dresses - the tambour work has that same chain on the wrong side and if you pull the thread it can all come undone!</div>
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When looking for hair for Ruby I got really confused by all the different shades of brunette - I bought some "Mahogany" and some "Deep Cherry". The Mahogany didn't work with Ruby's original hair but the Deep Cherry was lovely - it is a blend and I thought this would give Ruby's hair some 'life'.<br />
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Here is the scalp - you can see where I've put lots of hair at the front - along the parting and I've been filling in a little. This is about 90% finished - I used about 1.5 hanks of saran.<br />
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The Finished Scalp - untrimmed. The blend of colours is certainly working in this photo!<br />
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I couldn't find the glue that Natalie suggested - had to go for the 2nd best "E6000" - it didn't smell too bad (or perhaps I'm just used to working with smelly products!) I did a light smear of glue all over the inside of the scalp (thinking to keep all the hair nice and firm) and a smear on the dome, some in that grove where the flanges go - but not too much as I didn't want it oozing out there and getting on her hair! Keeping her hair well away I lined up scalp & dome and put the 2 together and then the part that really looks scary!<br />
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Ruby now has plenty of stories to scare the other girls with -<br />
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Even before a trim and perm Ruby's hair looked great ...<br />
She looks like a Rosie Red again and the join where scalp meets face-plate is almost unnoticeable - disappears in photos :-) <br />
This join is probably the reason why so many Blythe dolls are made with fringes (bangs). <br />
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Lillian joined Ruby at the hair-dressers' - Lillian is getting her kiss-curls re-set, Ruby has an elastic head-band to hold her new hairs in place. They've had their hair dipped in hot, almost boiling water with some nice smelling hair-conditioner in it and are waiting for it to dry.</div>
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But I hit the Googly-Web and found lots of photos and some <a href="http://www.easy-cake-ideas.com/star-wars-birthday-cake-2.html" target="_blank">instructions for an R2D2 cake</a> - it seemed possible and looked the part so a bit of shopping later and into the kitchen ...<br />
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R2D2 is tall with a domed 'head' so obviously the cake would be in tiers - this is a basic butter cake recipe made in double quantities and divided into 3 parts. Plain vanilla for the bottom layer is just out of the oven & still in the 6" tin, pink (because my grandson has a sister!) is flavoured with rose flovouring and will be the middle part and the chocolate flavour will be the 'head' and there is less of that.<br />
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I had found pair of cake tins designed to make a giant cupcake ... used the top half tin for the 'head' of R2D2 but it was too conical.<br />
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The children helped with the decorations, the red dot is a Smartie, the black details are that food colouring applied with a clean small paint-brush, the 'cameras' are a sour licorice lolly cut to size.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Blythe Dolls were meant to be helping me by filling the lolly-bags for visiting Trick-or-Treaters. Ruby & Lillian were working hard - but Audrey was up to tricks of her own!<br />
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Ruby is my new girl - she is a Rosie Red BL and came to me with a wonky hair-do - I've given her a partial re-root (more in my next post) ... Ruby can do a marvelous Morticia Addams impersonation (imdollation?) now. <br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-76391662016073009822013-09-06T18:04:00.000+10:002013-09-06T18:04:12.892+10:00Why Orchids are both Fascinating and Confusing Spring is Sprung and the garden smells delightfully of a mix of the jasmine (now finishing) the wisteria (just starting to bloom) and the citrus & burnt honey scent of the <a href="http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/education/Resources/bush_foods/Dendrobium_speciosum">Dendrobium speciosum</a>.<br />
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A native Australian orchid - common names are King Orchid and Rock Lily - and those common names are confusing because the Dendrobium kingianum (now Thelchiton kingianum) gets called Pink <i>Rock Lily</i> but the speciosum is the <i>King</i>!!! We also have some kingianums - pretty things.<br />
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There is confusion not only with the common names - the botanists have been renaming many of our orchids and I'm not sure if I should call our "King orchids" Dendrobium speciosum or Thelychiton speciosus.<br />
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While we are on names - the <a href="http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/education/Resources/bush_foods/Dendrobium_speciosum" target="_blank">Royal Botanical Gardens site</a> gives the Eora peoples names for the D or T speciosum/sus and says that: <br />
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"The starchy stems of the rock Lily (<em>Dendrobium speciosum</em>) are edible. The stems from a variety of other species of <em>Dendrobium</em> are crushed and applied to sores, wounds and burns..."<br />
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with flowers that are quite cream / lemon in colour, more sparse on the stem and much larger.<br />
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Such a cutie - she often looks like she is about to burst into giggles. Ruby is in really good shape for a 12yr old dolly - the RR BL was the 4th Neo Blythe to be released by Takara. The only thing is that a previous owner gave her a wonky hair-cut and fringe (bangs). However, I think I can restore her original hair style with a partial re-root ... more later.<br />
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Meanwhile - another Blythe & orchid photo and thanks to Beatrix Potter for the quote I'm about to mangle. <br />
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Australian cuckoos don't make that sound and not many of the gardens round here have daffodils - locally the main marker of Spring is the star jasmine.<br />
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The first jasmine flowers appeared on the weekend - that's 27-28th July!!!<br />
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I adore Australia's native orchids with their delicate little flowers in all sorts of odd shapes ... we've had this Dockrillia
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First flowers burst open yesterday, 29th July. This orchid has several common names: Thin
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teretifolia with cream / lemon coloured flowers and it is growing on a casurina branch that is tied to the
Moreton Bay tree - and I should add that the silver grey stuff belongs to neither the Moreton Bay Fig Tree nor
to the orchid - that is "Old Man's Beard" or "Spanish Moss" a type
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More flower photos? Our camellias have been flowering profusely this year ... very proud of this plant and it's twin sister. <br />
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Our star magnolia gives us a few totally pretty and beautifully scented flowers every spring.</div>
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Spring-time weather makes me want to plant things and often results in a trip to the nursery. Melville found the box I'd carried the new plants home in... <br />
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We took Imogen with us for some photos in the Royal Botanical Gardens ... Imogen was busy posing in the late-afternoon sunlight under some trees ...<br />
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A type of stinkhorn - possibly Lysurus mokusi. See <a href="http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallaceae.html" target="_blank">The Mushroom Expert</a> website for more info on these amazing fungi<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans Serif;">. </span>Here is one just emerging - stinkhorns all start with an "egg".<br />
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Many stinkhorns have quite bizarre shapes - and at this point you might like to send the children out of the room - because in its 'prime' this particular fungus looks rather rude.<br />
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Imogen was very excited when all the feathers for her costume arrived in the mail ... <br />
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I made her fan first - from the little ostrich feathers (proper name, Blondines) and Imogen spent hours practicing how to dance with it.<br />
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Imogen was dressing up as Lucille Ball in this still from the 1942 movie "The Big Street"<br />
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She was a "Character" from a movie ... one of the Flappers in "The Great Gatsby".</div>
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Vertical beading and godets of light weight fabric in the side seams so that you can dance ... <br />
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Being a perfectionist - the shoulders are too wide, for a real 1920s look those armholes should look more like a singlet's.<br />
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Ballet Russe inspired headdresses were part of 1920s party-wear. I constructed this one like a ballet headdress with some lace and lots of black beads. <br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://fashionedbylyndell.blogspot.com.au/pinterest-333eb.html</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561058319873661903.post-28084638077629930072013-07-08T14:36:00.002+10:002013-07-08T14:36:29.364+10:00Carmen Miranda - a prize winning BlytheHard to believe but the Sydney BlytheFest was over 3 weeks ago now - high time I posted something about it? !! And this post is going to a boastful one - because Audrey won 3rd prize
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Starting at the top with the all-important Tutti-Frutti Hat!<br />
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Made like a stage costume Carmen Miranda head-dress with a felt helmet underneath. For a human I would've used millinery or slipper felt - thick and stiff - for the doll scale I used craft felt and it stretched with all the handling - grrr <br />
Given all the weight & height of this head-dress it would've been better if it had remained snug-fitting. <br />
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The turban effect is created by 2 squares of fabric draped and stitched in place - the fall of fabric over one ear helps balance the weight of the basket of fruit. <br />
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I couldn't find a little cane basket and ran out of time to search for one. The basket I did find was perfect in every way - except for weight. It is made of metal, brass I think, really pretty, perfect size and an oval shape (just like a Blythe doll's head) but it would've been much better in cane and light-weight.<br />
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Luckily I had the faux fruit erasers in stash - again they are rather too heavy - but they looked good (especially those cherries!) The bananas were a great find at the last minute - though I did have to buy a huge bag of them - they weigh almost nothing. Lots of bright coloured ribbon, bows & roses, as 'filler' and feathers for height. They are just chicken feathers but I curled the filaments so they look as fluffy & pretty as possible.<br />
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Carmen Miranda often wore big hoop earrings and I couldn't resist using a Blythe pull-ring (a red resin one by JemGirl on Etsy).<br />
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Lets see some detail of sleeve, earring ... the yoke of the skirt and you'll notice those nails!<br />
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Carmen Miranda wore big platform shoes because she was self-conscious about being rather short. <br />
These were made for Barbie and they were pink - I painted them and put glitter on (most of which has fallen off!)<br />
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Had a wonderful day, though I spent most of it behind my
sale table - which was massively overstocked! Sold well on the day, but lots left
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Next post I'll show off the other 2 costumes - non-prize winning but great fun to make.<br />
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Been really busy trying to get lots of goodies made for the Sydney BlytheFest which will be on the 15th June. Here is the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/BlytheFest2013" target="_blank">FaceBoo</a> for the fest if you would like more info ...<br />
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There will be Neo sized Ombre skirts knitted from a Japanese silk-blend yarn <br />
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And some jewelry making - because the theme for this BlytheFest is "Dollywood" - for me that means all things glamourous & old style Hollywood.<br />
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There are going to be some competitions and I'm hoping to enter some - if I get the costumes done in time! The feathers for Imogen's costume arrived this morning ... </div>
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Sorry Imogen, but the tunic you are wearing has the sort of sleeves I'm going to show in this tutorial - set-in sleeves.<br />
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Here are the pattern pieces with cut out fabric. The sleeves have a sleeve-head shaping (a bit like a rounded mountain) similar to sleeves for human clothes but there is no difference between the front sleeve and the back sleeve (makes things simpler). Note that the tunic dress is cut in one - the front and the backs together. Thus eliminating the shoulder seams. This wastes some fabric but with such tiny garments it is good to eliminate those seams and all that bulk ... shoulders can be really fiddly and bulk there is not attractive especially as Blythe doesn't have a very long neck. <br />
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You can see that I've marked the stitching lines and I've marked the top point of the sleeve heads on the sleeves. On the tunic, I've marked the shoulder (where the seam would've been) and those > shapes mark the underarm points. Yes, I've used lead pencil - an HB - it washes out of most fabrics and you can get nice accuracy.<br />
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So to sew - I find it easiest to sew these sleeves in 2 halves, from underarm to top / shoulder and then, separately from the top to the Underarm ...<br />
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Find those points with a pin through on the stitching lines<br />
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and then push the 2 pieces of fabric together firmly <i>before</i> angling the pin to push it through the fabric again.<br />
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When those 1st 2 pins are accurate, arrange the rest of the sleeve, matching the stitching lines.<br />
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Sleeves are often fuller than the bodice armhole - I'm making little tucks at the top of the sleeves. You might like to make gathers, in which case you would run a gathering thread next to the stitching line (in the seam allowance). Use a long stitch length on your machine for this and only gather the top part of the sleeve. If you want a smooth sleeve head (without gathers or tucks) your sleeve should be only slightly larger than the armhole - and you can ease the extra fabric in where the fabric is on the bias (on the slopes of the 'mountain').<br />
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Take your work to the machine and hand-crank the needle down at the underarm point (we don't want to sew beyond the underarm points - or we'll create bunching there). Machine, starting with a little back-tacking.<br />
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The Sleeve should be on the top - it is harder to be accurate <i>but</i> if the sleeve is beneath it is almost impossible not to catch it into the stitching in the wrong place.<br />
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Another aside : You'll have noticed that my pins are sideways to the direction of the sewing? This way you can, if you have to, sew over the pins. Not the best thing to do as it can make the stitches less accurate - but sometimes with tiny Blythe garments it is helpful because you can use those pins as "handles" or "pushers" to get the fabric to <i>go </i>under the foot and get sewn !!!</div>
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Another trick - If you have trouble at the start of machining - with these tiny seam allowances, the needle pushes the fabric down the hole in the foot-plate !! It happens. </div>
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1. The needle could be blunt, put in a new one. 2. Hand crank the needle down into the fabric and hold both the threads (needle and bobbin) behind the work as you begin to machine. Holding the threads will also avoid 'thread nests' like the one to the right in this photo ... </div>
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If your stitching is as wobbly and off the stitching line as that is - unpick and do it again. Because I always need to unpick at same stage I don't like to use too small a stitch on the machine - on my machine I set the length at 2 (in sewing for humans I would use 2.5 to 3).<br />
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Machine the 2nd half of the sleeve.<br />
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Now to neaten.<br />
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And some thoughts on neatening. The purpose is to stop fabric from fraying away - the down-side is that you can create bulk - nasty thick, stiff seams.<br />
Some fabrics don't fray - Yippee if you are using one of them! But most do and this cotton definitely frays. Some folks use Fray Stopper - I don't because I suspect that some types interact with dolly plastics & it is messy & it makes the fabric stiff. Some folks use an overlocker - I don't often with doll clothes, they are just too small & fiddly & overlocking can be thick and bulky. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvcyf6NrYkAfG59lQH8vivEjWBbZ7Hd848yw8MbBkjW3inkohPv_L9HpU2IT_FkVeCwNWTNqSEhP766Qg2iTOjtLWC0wq8-UJjHW4AWwecZ9aKds-JhE8RMFYR8MVPwPAoNZi7I-xN0M/s1600/Blythe+sleeve+tute+9a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvcyf6NrYkAfG59lQH8vivEjWBbZ7Hd848yw8MbBkjW3inkohPv_L9HpU2IT_FkVeCwNWTNqSEhP766Qg2iTOjtLWC0wq8-UJjHW4AWwecZ9aKds-JhE8RMFYR8MVPwPAoNZi7I-xN0M/s200/Blythe+sleeve+tute+9a.jpg" width="200" /></a>I've found the best method is a small zig-zag. <br />
Cut the seam allowance down to about 1/4 inch or 3mm. Set stitch width for a small zig-zag (2 on my machine) and shorten the stitch length slightly).<br />
If you can drop the needle just over the cut edge or on it - you create an overlock effect.<br />
Remember to restore the machine settings after zig-zagging.<br />
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And here is the sleeve sewn onto the bodice ... sew the second sleeve as for the first.<br />
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At this point you might like to hem the sleeves (at the wrist). I'm not doing so on this tunic, I'll hem by hand because of the ric-rac trim. <br />
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Now to sew the sleeve seam and the bodice / tunic seam.<br />
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Once again I do this in 2 parts - to avoid catching the seam allowance from the previous seaming at the underarm and making bunching there.<br />
First the sleeve - pin it taking care to be accurate especially at the underarm (and the hem if you've already done that)<br />
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Stitch going to the previous seam's stitches at the underarm - but not beyond. Do a little back tacking at each end. Then pin and seam from the underarm to the end of the tunic or bodice.<br />
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Again neaten - cutting back that seam allowance and working small zig-zag ...<br />
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Take care to hold the garment with the edge quite straight (no angle at the underarm) to avoid catching that seam allowance and making the dreaded underarm bunching!<br />
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Would you like to see the completed outfit? These 'Petrushka' outfits are for my Etsy shop, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/blythestar" target="_blank">BlytheStar</a> <br />
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The Greatest Wonder of the World :-)</div>
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