Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Indigo Moon Jacket The jacket is so long on me it is almost a short coat. I live Indigo Moon clothes.  You will find huge numbers of them online in Ebay. In the UK and USA.

Stored Ribbon Available I have a glass jar full of short pieces of ribbon. I was wondering what to do with them. I soon found a need the filled. I started organizing my wardrobe. Some people with large walk-in closets have all their skirts on one rail, by colour and length. All the blouses on another rail. That looks neat. You can have two rails, one above the other. Good use of height. Or of short cupboards.  But where can I hang complete outfits, or long dresses and nightdresses? Not in the bedroom cupboards. Shower Room Space To Hang Stored Clothes I have a hanging rail in the shower room. The shower does not work and we have not yet got around to calling a plumber. So why waste space! I need hanging space. I need to match up clothes, skirts or trousers with blouses and jackets. Why?  However, I have height in the shower room. Although the rail is short of width.  I decided to put clothes in the empty shower room. I want to save time and decision-making in the morning....

First I had no elastic. Then I started saving it from discarded clothes. You can save good stretchy elastic, partially good bit cut off, or no longer elastic pieces which have shed their stretchy bits leaving you with lacey ribbon. I have wide elastic pieces from skirt and pyjama waistbands. Thin pieces come from the edges of underwear. I started buying white and black elastic when I saw it reasonably priced.  Now I have trouble finding it when I need it. So I collected it in glass jam jars.  I have found two used for wide elastic and narrow elastic.  You may have elastic from clothing which has worn out. Saved from waistbands and knicker legs. Or you might have bought more than you need. Stored Elastic 1 Store it in a place where you can quickly find it. Either in your one sewing box. Or in a glass jam jar with a label. 2  Use wide pieces to replace worn out waistbands. Use it to expand items which are too small on the waist. Elastic Linking Ribbons To Gloves 3 Use ...

How To Find Past Posts When I started my dress blog I did not have numbers on the posts. When I reached about ten posts and a reader asked me about a red dress, I had trouble identifying the post. I did a mechanical search which showed that had several dresses which were red or partly red, plus text which mentioned a red dress or partly red outfit as an alternative to the blue dress pictured.  So I decided to number the posts. At the start that was quite easy. I headed the blog post, dress of the day one, two, and so on. Changing Titles Of Blogs & Posts However, I soon started writing about features which were not dresses. Trousers (Americans say pants). Hats. Night dresses. I tried various solutions. Dress of the Night. Outfit of the day. Hat of the day. And what about posts which were not about dress, but clothes companies, or labels, or sewing needles? I used the words post of the day. Why Add Author Names To Titles? I then added my own name. That way, if my post was photogr...

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. Paperclips  I was sewing a wide neck strap onto the neck of an apron. The strap had become detached. I needed to fix it on.  I used a paperclip. The material of the apron was plastic backed. I did not want to make holes in it and risk tearing with a pin or safety pin. The paperclip worked well at first. No risk of leaving a pin on the neck of a garment.  Then the paperclip fell off.  I put it back on, the small part of the paperclip on the front. The little paperclip held onto the fabric just long enough for me to make my first stitch. What other alternatives could you use instead of pins? Glue. Staples. I shall definitely remember this paperclip trick for when I don't have a pin nearby. I shall take care to tighten the paperclip. I could also use a hairclip, or the clip fastener for plastic bags. Please share links to your favourite posts.

 I was looking at metal soap dishes and up came an oval soap dish on the Dunelm website. It was offered in a colour which they called lilypad. My first thought was that a lily could be white or pink. Then I read a review which mentioned green. So I googled lily pad. Up came a website giving a colour reference number for lily pad green. I used to think that giving fanciful names such as heather or raspberry to clothes in clothes catalogues was a piece of marketing. Now I realise it is a more accurate way of describing colours, which may look different when photographed in daylight and in artificial light giving a yellow or other tone. On a screen the brightness may also affect colour.  Lily pad came up as a muted or slate green. I used to be puzzled by magenta.  Here are mystery colours and near equivalent names. 1 Amber - yellow (sometimes orange) 2 burgundy - dark red, almost brownish  3 Heather - purple pink 4 Indigo - blue 5 Khaki - creamy tan or pale yellowy brow...