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kurta quilts? like… okay I’m confused now, because a kurta is an article of clothing, not a specific fabric or even family of fabrics so, uh, what? otoh, I know about linen saris, ohman, especially now cause my mum’s started selling them and I just want to take away her whole stock. I am super excited about your tailoring project, too, because I can only do tiny embroidery, so anything substantial and practical feels really amazing to me. <3
I had to Google around for it, because I was confused too– a kurta is like, a tunic-shirt kinda garment, right?– and apparently by “kurta quilt” they mean a patchwork quilt made, supposedly, out of old worn-out kurtas, which sounds kind of amazing actually. I love patchwork especially when you’re working with patterned fabrics and i have so little of that in my stash that I’m extremely envious of it whenever I see it.
Oh my goodness I don’t know what I’d do if anyone in my family sold textile goods. Roll around in them when nobody’s looking probably. Ungh.
I’m still sort of awful at sewing, in that I can’t follow a pattern to save myself, but I can absolutely join two pieces of fabric together reliably, and if I stick to things that I know the shape of, I do all right. But what I really love to do is hand-sewing, and that’s so time-consuming it’s almost not worth beginning because there’s never time to complete it.
I feel particularly drawn to linen because that was one of the biggest crops in the area where I was born, up until the First World War– there were textile mills in my hometown from the time of the earliest Dutch settlers, and they worked both linen and wool, and the linen was grown all over the county including on the farm my sister now owns. And it’s completely vanished now, no one remembers it, there are no traces of it, except that I found a pair of flax hetchels in one of the old barns on the farm. I want to grow it, but that’s such a Process and it won’t be profitable so there’s no time. Alas.
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kurta quilts? like… okay I’m confused now, because a kurta is an article of clothing, not a specific fabric or even family of fabrics so, uh, what? otoh, I know about linen saris, ohman, especially now cause my mum’s started selling them and I just want to take away her whole stock. I am super excited about your tailoring project, too, because I can only do tiny embroidery, so anything substantial and practical feels really amazing to me. <3
I had to Google around for it, because I was confused too– a kurta is like, a tunic-shirt kinda garment, right?– and apparently by “kurta quilt” they mean a patchwork quilt made, supposedly, out of old worn-out kurtas, which sounds kind of amazing actually. I love patchwork especially when you’re working with patterned fabrics and i have so little of that in my stash that I’m extremely envious of it whenever I see it.
Oh my goodness I don’t know what I’d do if anyone in my family sold textile goods. Roll around in them when nobody’s looking probably. Ungh.
I’m still sort of awful at sewing, in that I can’t follow a pattern to save myself, but I can absolutely join two pieces of fabric together reliably, and if I stick to things that I know the shape of, I do all right. But what I really love to do is hand-sewing, and that’s so time-consuming it’s almost not worth beginning because there’s never time to complete it.
I feel particularly drawn to linen because that was one of the biggest crops in the area where I was born, up until the First World War– there were textile mills in my hometown from the time of the earliest Dutch settlers, and they worked both linen and wool, and the linen was grown all over the county including on the farm my sister now owns. And it’s completely vanished now, no one remembers it, there are no traces of it, except that I found a pair of flax hetchels in one of the old barns on the farm. I want to grow it, but that’s such a Process and it won’t be profitable so there’s no time. Alas.
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