Dress Of The Day with Angela

 

  Angela Lansbury wearing a warm beanie hat and sewn on scarf. Selfie photo by Angela Lansbury.  Primark pink beanie hat. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Scarf hand sewn onto beanie hat. Slot created by folding one end of scarf over another. Photo by Angela Lansbury. I wanted to be sure the slot was wide enough. The end you thread through could be rolled up but I thought it would look neater laid flat. I have seen similar items, ranging from about six pounds and fifty pence on Amazon, not white, but blue, beige, grey. Also on Amazon for twenty pounds plus. 

 

 I wanted a new warm headscarf made from a learge scarf with a hole or slit cut in the middle.  My first thought was to vut a semi circular hole using  a saucer, then a slit vertivally in the centre front. Then I though that an existing hat . What could I do with the cut out circle? Make two half moon pockets? Or rabbit ears? Would the circle be large enough? I used a pink knitted beanie hat as a template. But why spoil the scarf by cutting out a circle? A straight line cut is easier to sew inconspicuously if you want to shorten the slit or cancel it completely. I thought of using newspaper to create a pattern, held together with sticky tape. That what I learned at the Australian women's association sewin.g group in Singapore. One of the members was malaysian. She said that in Malaysia, the average or poor family does not go to the expensive of buying comercial paper patterns, which in any case are Western style. Malasian clothes for women are ankle length.  This has...

Nothing to wear? In the kitchen, I wrote a poem about the problem.  It's horrible to be home alone When it's time for tea And you don't have a hot scone When you're in in a jam, without any jam I gave a scream, I've finished the cream! I have to to go shopping But first I am stopping To decide what to wear The cupboard is full but I am bare Rows and rows of summer clothes that it's too cold to wear I can't wear a cocktail dress to go shopping Or a small swimsuit for buying some fruit I must pack summer clothes into a suitcase Ones with short sleeves I do not need Put them in storage and clear this place When you're alone, what to do about that? I grabbed a pink jacket, black purse and white hat I hurried down to the seven eleven (In truth it was Tesco, which won't rhyme with heaven) The man at the till gave a glum hello And glum goodbye when I had to go (Home - I'd phoned a friend) He doesn't care what you wear Hi job is checking what you spe...

 I was unpacking my suitcase from a trip to New Zealand earlier this year when I came across a bright yellow fabric tote bag. I did not need a bag. But I looked at it. The colour was what i call screaming yellow. With large white circles or discs, a bit like large polka dots, but too big to be comfortably called dots. Mysterious Unusual Straps The bag was large and had wide handles. Something strange about it. What were those handles for? They were slotted through large reinforced buttonhole style slots. So the handles slipeed through as if you could adjust the bag in some way. Why were the handles through slits at the base of the bag as well as the top? Was it for carrying a baby on your front or back? I looked at the label giving the brand name, Notabag. Why not a bag? Not just a bag, but something else as well, too long to put in the brand name. I found the company's website on the internet and all was revealed.  Notabag History - Problem & Solution The company started ...