How wonderful is this dinnerware designed for use on board the legendary passenger train the Superchief? I’m not a train guy, but when Jim Lehrer was on my show, I read his mystery novel Super, set on the Superchief. There’s something wonderful about the Deco combination of aesthetics and kineticism. The beauty of a machine built for transportation. Very inspiring.
(via Ancient Industries)
This is fabulous. I especially like the moiré pattern on the outside edge of the plate.
Just watch Jenny Conlee. Ah! I’m on such an accordion kick lately. And I probably will be for some time! (that’s fair warning.)
This could have been a really nice shirt. After I finished last week’s shirt, I got a little overconfident with my drafting abilities, so I went into my pattern and made some drastic changes, especially in the yoke area. And I don’t know why, but I didn’t measure the final neckline on my pattern before I used it to cut out this great polka-dot fabric from Sew to Speak. As a result, the neckline is uncomfortably large as result of the yoke-shoulder seam being too small. It is an odd problem to have… and one that I will not make twice.
I used cheap muslin as interfacing, instead of a proper interfacing, and I think the effect is much better. Since the muslin is not fusible, it floats as a separate layer between the shirting, and this looks much better. There’s another lesson I learned from this project.
So that’s why this shirt doesn’t have buttonholes, a pocket, or a finished hem. And I don’t think I will finish it. I’m not happy enough with it, and I can always re-use most of the fabric for pocketing or something.
To make up for the wasted time, I’ve already started assembling my next shirt. Live and learn…
Black Legion, from 1937. I watched this movie a couple nights ago. A very young Humphrey Bogart plays an American factory worker whose work is overshadowed by a Polish immigrant’s. This prompts Bogey to join the Black Legion, a KKK-like mob that ends up pretty much destroying his family, not to mention the community. The ending is unsatisfying and lame, but not enough so to overshadow the rest of the film.
The movie is overdramatized even by 1930s standards, but it makes for fun watching. I really liked this movie because it featured quite a lot of lower-class fashions. I’m used to seeing Bogart in suits, so it was great to see him in a belted factory jumpsuit and a felt mechanic’s beanie. His off-duty leather jacket was extremely nice, too.