I have mentioned before on ODFL that in fall 2018 I ventured to Seoul, South Korea on a textiles tour. Our busy two week schedule included several workshops in traditional Korean crafts.
One such workshop was Korean embroidery, taught by a young and very talented embroiderer in her studio. I had never done any embroidery before but, on a sunny Saturday afternoon five of us sat around a small table and got to work. First we drew a flower design onto a swatch of red silk fabric. Then we stretched the fabric not on a round embroidery hoop, but instead a square wood frame. Stretch tight and keep in place with thumbtacks – that was sort of tricky.
We had two hours to finish and that wasn’t enough time for me; I am quite slow when learning something new and by the end of the workshop my eyes were sore and I was ready to call it a day. I stuffed the fabric into my bag, thinking that probably that was the end of embroidery for me. However, the next year I took an embroidery class at San Francisco School of Needlework & Design, which helped to ease my feelings of inadequacy when it comes to needlework.
Fast forward to Pandemic 2020 and one day while sorting through my fabric stash I came across the unfinished embroidery piece. I spontaneously decided to finish what I had started and in no time, I was done. I made a button out of it and added a pinback, which turned it into a brooch. I wear it on a coat I had made and the red nicely picks up the coat’s red accent stitching.
What a surprise to create something out of what I had (mistakenly) dismissed.
OverDressed for Life 
It’s beautiful! Love your post.
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Thanks, Lori!
Just a side note- was in W.Creek on Tues. Lady looked me up\down
Asked if i had kids. “No” said I oh, but I did teach school does that qualify? No she said because if you had children you would not be able to dress the Way You Are.
I knew she had copped out ? Did not ask of i Maybe taught fashion(tee hee)
She seemed mad as a wet hen. So I just kept saying- I cant understand you & got off bus @ bart & left her be
Almost everything i had on was consignment! It is how you put it together for YOUR OWN STYLE!
Moya, this lady was “hiding out” no sense in telling her.
Just go my own way, & send her blessings
Jacquelyn Goudeau
Thanks, Jacquelyn. I always enjoy your comments. Too bad the bus lady couldn’t have just complimented you and perhaps been inspired to improve her own style. At least she recognized you have good taste! (Walnut Creek has no style, only athleisure.)
Moya, I find the people out there to be extremely nice. And I really go for the consignment stores which I find very very good things in. In fact what I had on yesterday was from 2 of the shops there .
I get a lot of compliments when I’m out there. We have to remember that that is a very warm area and people dressed appropriately for that. I don’t see any better dressing in San Francisco anymore so this was something else. It’s not just in Walnut Creek or in California it has to do with the whole world have been spiral of dressing down and it has to hit bottom.
We had been in a timezone of dressing up and the expectations had hit the ceiling.
Would there really have been any need for your website had things not gotten out of hand.?
Those Highs are always followed by the reverse.
I believe that a lot of women shifted into a gear where they were trying to do too much for too many for too long. They lost themselves, & wiped their Personal Selves OUT.
My mother did it when they moved from New Orleans to Tacoma Washington. She stopped dressing because the, was like the back waters for her. Plus she had been through a lot of hell and high water. But she sure taught me to dress for myself. I will pray for that lady because she needs to claim her own self back.JG
Moya! Remember that when Dior brojght out NEW LOOK& sent models out in dresses w 47yds of material- some incensed women Actually TORE THE GARMENTS OFF OF THEM! They had been SACRIFICI G for war effort making due on a few yds.(pics on line)
New changes often bring out the nasty side of humans.
That lady in W.C was off base because I was a reminder to her- that she had Sold HERSELF OUT
SHE was not mad @ moi.
Jacquelyn