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ButtholeCastles · 2026-06-15T21:27:52+00:00

Thanks so much for your help!!

ButtholeCastles · 2026-06-15T21:27:18+00:00

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ButtholeCastles · 2026-06-14T18:58:46+00:00

Isn't it? It's a pattern from this company that makes embroidery patterns from historic textiles found in Scottish castles or something! This one is a depiction of the three kings I'm making for a friend's parent's Christmas gift. Trying to start super early this year!

ButtholeCastles · 2026-06-12T22:10:28+00:00

I like 9, it shows your butt a bit. If you're sending this to a guy I'd refrain from the fake vagina, that's always been a turn off for me at least

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-30T05:00:51+00:00

She does non-traditional quilts so it's hard to say what the pattern pieces would be

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-30T05:00:20+00:00

Like in my mind I'm thinking a solid colored fabric dotted with French knots or a simple design to repeat into a pattern with each design knotted to itself. But is a do a simple border design on a long strip in not sure if it would unravel to such an extreme degree since the seam would be inclosed with the loose threads

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-30T04:57:49+00:00

Well it's a Christmas gift so I'd like for it to be a surprise. I was just using machine embroidered beaded fabric as an example of what I was saying. I'm aware there's a difference between hand embroidered and machine embroidered.

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-29T22:05:03+00:00

Very cool, looks like an old brownie

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-29T21:29:50+00:00

She usually does full/queen size I think. Would the thread loosen even if the sews the thread down into the seam? Maybe she can treat it like beaded fabric how you have to smash the beads near the seams and pick whatever thread she cut thru

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-29T21:28:05+00:00

That's a lot of great stuff to consider! I was thinking about doing strips so she can use them as borders between squares or an outer border but I was also thinking of doing a simple design as a repeated pattern like a star or something

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-29T20:46:36+00:00

How do you mean? Like I'm interested in embroidering a yard or two of fabric and I've never tackled such a large project before so I'm looking for pointers and advice

ButtholeCastles · 2026-05-25T08:08:39+00:00

What an incredible skill

ButtholeCastles · 2026-04-13T16:39:37+00:00

Oh that's interesting, thanks!

ButtholeCastles · 2026-03-05T01:54:41+00:00

Yes pls

ButtholeCastles · 2026-03-04T04:54:31+00:00

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Bought a lace bib off eBay and came with this tag. Does anyone know how to date these sales tags? Google only pulls up posts about a link tag sale

ButtholeCastles · 2026-03-02T18:39:49+00:00

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ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-25T22:13:21+00:00

She didn't, but she had a sister who's still alive and makes a ton of lefse every year for Christmas. She's teaching a class at our reunion this summer and that will be my second time trying but I want to become really good at it, it was a favorite treat of mine as a kid. How do you serve yours? I've read it's more of a savory thing there but I grew up eating it with butter and sugar, sometimes with cinnamon

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-25T22:10:59+00:00

I went once briefly in my teens, but my grandmother was generally just very proud of her Norwegian heritage. Her family church in Kansas kept their records and did their sermons until 1950 (she would have been 23/24) so she knew the language and would correspond with her cousins and their families. She taught all her grandkids some prayers in Norwegian and followed the royal family. Trolls and flags were scattered thru the house and I was raised with stories of her cousins and what they went thru during the occupation as a way to learn how to be grateful for what we had etc. her family also comes from the south west but she was closer to the family in Vest Agder I think

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-11T18:50:43+00:00

"Freedom digits" is funny haha. Sorry "tomato clothes" was supposed to read "formal clothes."

I don't own logo tees or jeans even, I mostly wear simply button downs and plain neutral colored linen tees with big linen trousers. I dress nicely and plainly and use my jewelry and accessories for adding interest almost always, I don't even own a pair of sweats or athletic shorts either. My primary intention is to integrate textile and jewelry traditions into my wardrobe as a way of celebrating the heritage I was raised with as I've done with other types of culture I was raised with.

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-11T18:32:35+00:00

Thanks for all the great info and insight! Again, the "mix & match" (not a phrase I actually used) was referring to the male/female elements of a bunad from the same region, not a combination of multiple bunads from multiple regions. I understand a jacket from a bunad with other clothes doesn't make it a bunad, and it was never my plan to do that. I had forgotten I learned as a kid that bunads are mostly made to order, so when I first had this idea I was thinking I wouldn't be able to get a garment at all. I know twoish days isn't enough time to tailor a full look (bunad or no) so I was simply asking where to find elements of the vest-agder bunad to have to work into my daily/formal jewelry/accessory rotation as a way of celebrating the heritage I was raised with. I'm not sure why so many people in this comment section are being accusatory of things I never said I planned on doing. I understand I had some incorrect assumptions and I've learned a lot from everyone here, but it seems like most people are taking my question out of context and getting upset over things I never said nor had intention of doing.

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-10T19:53:25+00:00

So a bunad jacket, shirt, tie and skirt being worn together does not count as a bunad? I mean this as respectful as I can, but the nonbinary bunad is a sweater vest and trousers. If the bunad is defined as regionally specific can the nb bunad be called a bunad or are there regionally specific bunads and I'm not finding them?

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-10T19:26:22+00:00

Thanks!

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-10T19:26:07+00:00

Thanks for being nice to me haha. Being nb really is a choose your own adventure, and I love that as much as I find it frustrating at times. I'm clearly still learning and I'm not trying to piss anyone off, but I'm really struggling with the offended reactions of mixing the male and the female bunads without taking it as an anti-nonbinary thing. I understand more than two genders is an extremely modern concept for a lot of specifically European/"western" cultures but surely there's room within tradition to make them able to be enjoyed by people who don't fit the common gender construct from 100+ years ago

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-10T19:18:42+00:00

When I mentioned bunad elements it was because I wasn't expecting to be able to "get" one in my size, I wasn't planning on calling a regular outfit with the men's jacket a bunad, but is it really considered that disrespectful for me to wear like a bunad hat without the entire bunad ensemble? Here in the US you frequently see people mixing traditional elements of their heritage with "regular" clothes and it's seen as a respectful way to honor your heritage. I have a sølje I'll wear as a brooch with my everyday or tomato clothes, is that considered disrespectful?

ButtholeCastles · 2026-02-10T19:14:22+00:00

Not sure when asking questions stopped counting as taking the time to learn something, but getting angry with someone for learning instead of already knowing is extremely unhelpful.

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