Noooooo. Repair it!!! It's easy enough to do and will look super cool. Make it visible and funky - it may even bring you more inspiration. There's a lot about visible mending online. And it's enviro friendly. Less trash is always a good thing. And it's meaningful to you. If you do let us see what it looks like.
Not surprised Peggy didn't write a book. Frisket has refused to speak English for three years despite living in an immersive household. Dogs are so stubborn!
I don’t have one single garment dedicated to drawing, I take whatever but it’s important that it is comfortable, preferably with holes on elbows and... ugly, so to speak.
As it happens every time I’m like this - wreched and unpresentable, the courier rings the doorbell with a package.🥴
You should carry on wearing without patching it up! 😂
I feel there is a ‘magic dressing gown’ book in this. Personally I have a house full of lucky magic stones ( the ones with natural holes in them) and four leaved clovers- is that lucky enough?
I can feel the push and pull if the practical vs emotional - what do you do with it? Sounds like a museum piece! Saw a note this morning that asked 'Does it serve you (still)?' If you have moved on, then maybe it's time. If a new patched lease of life would make you happy (and warm), then it's stitch time!
I’d say buy some of those old 1970’s style patches and mend it Helen. Remember those ones you could buy and people stitched them onto denim jackets? That would be really
I bet you could auction that off for good money, smell and all! (Or at the very least there MUST be a book about a magic dressing gown to memorialize it.)
I do all my work in a dressing gown over my clothes (ostensibly because it's cold but also I think because growing up I was a big fan of Hawkeye from MASH and he normalised wearing a dressing gown all day). Funnily enough I had to upgrade this year because the dog has claimed my old one as a blanket.
I hung a couple of evil eyes on my easel (from my brief teaching stint in Istanbul), but I’ve been working on my iPad so much lately, they’re kind of useless there!
Oh you need to keep it - it makes me think of the Beatrix Potter hat on the chair in Hilltop, one day the national trust will be showing young hopeful authors and illustrators your lucky gown 💖
Funnily enough I do have a pair of garish, ill-fitting trousers that I wear when I need to get stuff done around the house.
I don’t have any shoes that go with them, so I can’t go out. 😂😂😂
Noooooo. Repair it!!! It's easy enough to do and will look super cool. Make it visible and funky - it may even bring you more inspiration. There's a lot about visible mending online. And it's enviro friendly. Less trash is always a good thing. And it's meaningful to you. If you do let us see what it looks like.
Not surprised Peggy didn't write a book. Frisket has refused to speak English for three years despite living in an immersive household. Dogs are so stubborn!
😂😂that Peggy needs to up her game!!
I’ll take it!
Can you incorporate the magic dressing gown into your school visit props? (I’m fresh from re-listening to the Good Ship podcast) Kids would love that!
I have a magic woolly hat that cures sore throats. I need to keep looking to find one that makes books!
I don’t have one single garment dedicated to drawing, I take whatever but it’s important that it is comfortable, preferably with holes on elbows and... ugly, so to speak.
As it happens every time I’m like this - wreched and unpresentable, the courier rings the doorbell with a package.🥴
You should carry on wearing without patching it up! 😂
I feel there is a ‘magic dressing gown’ book in this. Personally I have a house full of lucky magic stones ( the ones with natural holes in them) and four leaved clovers- is that lucky enough?
I can feel the push and pull if the practical vs emotional - what do you do with it? Sounds like a museum piece! Saw a note this morning that asked 'Does it serve you (still)?' If you have moved on, then maybe it's time. If a new patched lease of life would make you happy (and warm), then it's stitch time!
I’d say buy some of those old 1970’s style patches and mend it Helen. Remember those ones you could buy and people stitched them onto denim jackets? That would be really
Cool. Oh and maybe wash it too 😂
Too funny. Love it but no no lucky robe or anything like that. Too hot in Augusta for a robe most of the time.
I bet you could auction that off for good money, smell and all! (Or at the very least there MUST be a book about a magic dressing gown to memorialize it.)
I do all my work in a dressing gown over my clothes (ostensibly because it's cold but also I think because growing up I was a big fan of Hawkeye from MASH and he normalised wearing a dressing gown all day). Funnily enough I had to upgrade this year because the dog has claimed my old one as a blanket.
I hung a couple of evil eyes on my easel (from my brief teaching stint in Istanbul), but I’ve been working on my iPad so much lately, they’re kind of useless there!
Oh you need to keep it - it makes me think of the Beatrix Potter hat on the chair in Hilltop, one day the national trust will be showing young hopeful authors and illustrators your lucky gown 💖
Colourful patches, perhaps with your book covers on them? And a good ship too, of course!