Sleepless nights in Patternland

[green_martha]

Hey, I can't sleep yet again ! And I can't even blame the heat, it's been pouring most of the night. But Cthulhu only knows why, I went to bed at eleven, got out again at half past 2 and hadn't closed an eye. I actually didn't even feel tired. I'm brely starting to feel like yes, maybe sleeping could be an option... *rolls eyes*
At least I saved loads of pictures from the CoPA - only after I figured out the pattern diagrams were mostly missing for the years I'm most interested in right now. I have saved far too much huge sleeved 1890s and cute 1920s stuff up to now.
I have also worked on my drawing a little. It feels really really good, I hadn't realised I hadn't touched a pencil for so long - but the break was good, now I'm full of thematic and technical inspiration and bursting with ideas. I think I should be able to add new stuff to the Etsy shop rpetty soon and that feels really good ! Of course I still have some older stuff to scan and edit, but I just don't feel like it tonight - err this morning.

Comments

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

I just made a post asking about the missing pattern diagrams. I'm so glad I'm the only one! Still a little grumpy that most everything from the 1870s to 1890 is missing, though.

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

Try the one sform El Salon de la Moda in the 90s. Otherwise, yeah, a lot of the diagrams are missing, and a lot of the pictures are bad xerox quality... I've been systematically saving what seems usable to me (that is, almost everything with a diagram from 1885 to 1905 and some of the most interesting diagram-less pictures), and there just isn't the same wealth of stuff as in, say 1929. The first decade of the 20th century is even worse, though.