#sewing circle

[thesapphocinephile]

Women in suits hold all the power...

#i don't make the rules #cate blanchett #movies #cinephile #old hollywood #greta garbo #gorgeous #lesbian #tár #katharine hepburn #Silvia Scarlett #marlene dietrich #morocco #gays are we ok #gay #bisexual #sewing circle #women in suits #women in film #power suit #power #women #queen christina #lgbtq #lgbtqia #androgynous #androgeny #the philadelphia story #woman of the year

[oh-sewing-circle]

"Joan Crawford's interest in Bette Davis was more than professional, Charles Higham believed. 'This greatest of suffering female stars admired this greatest of actresses sexually as well as professionally,' he said, stating that Crawford was a repressed lesbian.

'He's full of shit,' said Crawford's friend and foremost fan, Dore Freeman.

'It is doubtful,' said another Crawford friend, publicist Harry Mines, who frequently arranged dates for Joan.

'If anything, she loved men too much. ''It's possible; anything with Joan was possible,' said director George Cukor

'How the f**k do I know if Joan was a dyke?' said Bette Davis. 'I never let her get that close to me.'"

-From Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine

#Joan Crawford #Bette Davis #sexuality #speculation #lesbian #bisexual #lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #George Cukor #classic hollywood #old hollywood #sewing circle

[fayegonnaslay]

Marlene Dietrich in Paris, May 20th, 1933.

#women in suits #fashion icon #killer style #1930s #golden age #classic cinema #candid #movie stars #paris #marlene dietrich #garbo #berlin #the blue angel #morocco #sewing circle #josef von sternberg #gary cooper #dietrich #lilli marlene

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Interest Check

I've been thinking about a fannish 'sewing circle' discord.

How interested would you be in joining for weekly movie watch-alongs, project help and ideas, general fan chat while you sew or knit or draw?

#fandom polls #interest check #sewing circle #sewing bee #knitting circle

[kismetic]

these AI generated pics of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich getting married 😭

#greta garbo #marlene dietrich #sewing circle #old hollywood #they were so bad on the first try but these kind of look like paintings I like them

[oursouls1gnite]

Enchanting Garbo

#greta garbo #1920s film #sewing circle #pre code hollywood #golden era #art deco #1930s film #1920s #early 20th century

[geekygachapon]

Cozy Sunday Stitching Circle!

#twitch #streaming #crafts #art #embroidery #cozy stream #sewing circle

[sergeantsporks]

“Temporary stitches” all stitches are temporary if you have a pair of scissors and aren’t a coward

#i am forcibly removed from the sewing circle #sewing #war stories from the sergeant

[bargainsleuthbooks]

#TheWeddingDressSewingCircle by #JenniferRyan #NetGalley #ARCReview #BookReview #WorldWarII #HistoricalFiction

Want a great historical fiction novel/romance that's set in the English countryside during World War II? Then #TheWeddingDressSewingCircle by #JenniferRyan is for you. #NetGalley #ARCReview #BookReview #WorldWarII #historicalfiction #England #bookstagram

“Three plucky women lift the spirits of home-front brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationing leaves little opportunity for pomp or celebration–even at weddings–in this heartwarming novel based on true events, from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir.After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has…

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#Bombing #Clothes Rations #England #Fighter Pilot #German Bombers #Historical Fiction #Historical Romance #Jennifer Ryan #Rationing #Sewing Circle #The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle #Wedding Dress #World War 2 #World War II

[beetlesanbutterflies]

How do you think Creature proposed? I know we see part of it in the film but i'm sitting her kicking my feet thinking about them running back to the room and Lisa is ready to go, and Creature suddenly stops and she's confused and asks him what's wrong. Is the stitching bad? Does he need another round in the tanning bed? Did he change his mind?

And he just stands there staring at her trying to think of how to convey that he loves her so much and no matter what happens to them, they will not share the same fate of going to the grave unmarried. and in the middle of Lisa trying to decipher all of this he just grabs her bag of peach rings and gets on one knee.

#creature said no sex out of wedlock #do you think he was planning this out when he was getting his dick sewed on? #lisa frankenstein #the creature #its so important to me that he married her #the beautiful full circle of the only thing the world knows about him is he died unmarried and how painful that must be for him #making sure that she won't have to go through that #that 1 even if no one else knows about him she will know that someone loved her #and 2 that he ends up making sure the world knows by writing it on her tomb

[oh-sewing-circle]

“The atmosphere in the Hollywood lesbian community began to change in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This change was a reflection of three important developments: (1) the increased adoption by the general public of the morbidification of sexual relations between women promoted by some sexologists; (2) the rise of the studio system in Hollywood; and (3) the onset of economic problems connected with the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. The effect of the heterosexual backlash and the rise of the companionate marriage in the mid- to late 1920s was to push women who loved women further into the closet. The rise of the studio system meant that, were these women ever to venture from that closet and be caught in an embarrassing situation in public, the news media would not print the story. Hard economic times made these women vulnerable to the demands of the studio bosses who protected them—vulnerable enough, for example, to agree to date or even marry a man in order to appear heterosexual when they actually were not. Hollywood had become, in effect, a company town.

Many lesbians and bisexual women in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, especially those from Europe, gathered at the home of Berthold (1885-1953) and Salka Viertel (1889-1978). The Viertels were German émigrés who had come to Hollywood in 1928 to work in the film industry. Like Salka, most of the women who gathered at her home were “Gillette Blades”—that is, their sexuality ‘cut both ways.’ Some American-born actresses also fit into this category of actual or apparent bisexuality, while others were lesbians who adhered to the older model of the Boston marriage and lived with their lovers in what was purportedly a platonic relationship.

Following World War II, and with the rise of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the situation of Hollywood lesbians once again underwent a paradigm shift. After Communists, homosexuals were the favorite targets of witch-hunting politicians and bureaucrats, especially those of the House Un-American Activities (HUAC). At this same time, scandal magazines began to print articles that openly identified homosexual stars as such. The tabloid Confidential was directly responsible for the end of Lizabeth Scott’s (1922-2015) career in motion pictures when it accused her in print of ‘unnatural’ sexual activity. Many of the lesbians and bisexual women who were married began spending more time with their spouses, and many who were unmarried rushed to the alter. Some of the homosexuals in Hollywood reacted to this climate of fear by becoming reactionary in their politics and cooperating with those carrying out the persecutions. Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) and her ‘beard’ husband (a spouse who is taken by a women who engages in homosexual behavior primarily to help disguise her lesbian activities) Robert Taylor (1911-1969) became archconservatives after World War II. Taylor, who was also gay, was the only actor to ‘name names’ in front of HUAC. Salka Viertel was blacklisted and left the country. The climate of fear and paranoia among Hollywood homosexuals was to last well into the early 1960s."

-Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman and George Haggerty

#bisexual #lesbian #homosexuality #sewing circle #queer history #lesbian history #lgbt history #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #Hollywood #House of Un-American Activities #1920s #1930s #1940s #1950s

[thegroovyarchives]

1980 DMC Pastel Embroidery Kit From the August, 1980 Family Circle Great Ideas Magazine

#vintage ad #vintage embroidery #vintage sewing pattern #flowers #floral #Family Circle #vintage design #80's #1980 #my scans

[kittlesandbugs]

Belated bday bootleg FHR Herald hoodie for @gingerbreton 😘

The hood is lined with a gold butterfly knit to represent his butterfly mind shield.

Herald logo was designed by @kruk-art

#Kitbug sews things #Fhr #Herald #Daniel sullivan #I thought i was super galaxy brained for the lining lol #This was the second attempt at the embroidery because I fucked the first one up royal #Weh #Anyway #Circle easier than i thought it would be #Just need to do a chen and angie....

[jayswing101]

Fill for G1 - Black Cloaked Envoy on my Guardian Bingo Card!

The base pattern is taken from this daxiushan (大袖衫) pattern. To make this daxiushan (Heipaoshi's Version), I shortened the sleeves a bit, added extra length to the body, added a hood, and added the weird gauzy bits on the back. I also added some cording on the shoulders and the sides of the hood, following the design from the show as closely as I could. You'll also notice a couple decorative bands of black ribbon on the chest and at the waist, as well as a square of skightly different black fabric on the back — these are also embellishments added to follow the model in the drama.

Fabric: raw silk noil, cotton lining in the hood, a silk habotai square, silk gauze, silk ribbons, cotton cording. Entirely handsewn using waxed black linen thread.

#guardian #heipaoshi #guardianbingofest #cosplay #(ish) #fanARTifact #handmade #modified hanfu #this was my first time making anything other than a basic circle/half circle skirt and it was very fun and im very happy with the result #there are places i could for sure improve for next time (and there will be a next time - this is one of the comfiest things I've ever worn) #but for my first time drafting a pattern and sewing anything more complex than a circle skirt #i say this is a job very well done #also the hood was so scary but it was actually pretty simple to make!! it's also GIANT #i could for sure hide a big black cat in there no problem #i am also planning on making the rest of heipaoshi's outfit (belt and little hand guards and all!) #we're posting just the cloak bit and calling that square filled bc i won't have the rest finished before the end of January 😅 #but i keep getting intimidated by the closures on the yuanlingpao im making and then not sewing for months on end so. #jaysart

[ditsyknits]

Some more photos of the green quilt! I'm about halfway done with the quilting and I've been really enjoying it now. The first photo shows one of my favorite parts of the orange peel pattern, which is the diamond star shape that appears in between the petals 🏳️‍⚧️

#quilting #hand quilting #quilt #quiltblr #hand sewing #my quilting #green diamond quilt #my art #my crafts #gonna start adding a little trans flag on all my captions to stop circulation in terf circles #will report back on how that goes

[james-a-b]

I finally finished my skirt! It's taken me about 880 hours, and I'm so happy to be done. It's a double circle skirt with a hem circumference of 42 feet; needless to say, the embroidery took a long time, especially as I don't have an embroidery machine and did it all by hand instead.

It's insane to think about how much time this took; when I started, i thought it would take maybe two months at most. It's now been about ten months of work, at a rate of roughly 1.5 inches of embroidery per day on average.

This has been, by far, the biggest project I've ever taken on, and I just want everyone to know that if I can do this, so can you. So start that big project you're afraid of committing to. You can do it.

#mine #my projects #embroidery project #embroidery #project #project complete #sewing #double circle skirt #circle skirt #motivation #embroidery design #embroidery pattern #my face