Re: Royal Wedding - tiled floor

My first (and only) quilt teacher made a quilt of precisely that floor; and it might explain why I love making quilts of those floors. They are so beautiful; and the patterns used by those medieval tilers are so similar to quilt patterns. The ones that I have done so far will, in time, I hope be supplemented by two of the Cosmati floor in the sanctuary of Bristol Cathedral (much more modern - but same style). I have completed one of them so far. . In message , Sally Swindells writes

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I've just been doing exactly the same thing.

And... yes, of course I watched it in the end, despite all my protestations otherwise.

And the dress was gorgeous and elegant and the flowers (lily of the Valley) were understated and, no doubt, fragrant, and the pomp and ceremony made me proud to be British. We can put on a good show when the chips are down. The lace was hand made by the Royal School of Embroidery and Needlework based in Hampton Court.

Some of those hats, however, were astounding, in all the wrong ways. Princess B and Mrs Beckham particularly come to mind. Posh just HAD to have a tart-string, somewhere didn't she?

Kate should love the dress, I think. Very fifties and plain, simplicity and fitting taking over from bling and flounces.

There is no-ne worse than a convert, and that's me. OK?

Nel =D (Gadget Queen)

Natch! I shall have to look up the hats... I don't make hats, you know...

I do. I thought is damned near perfect. In style quite like Princess Margaret's wedding gown (the epitome of elegance).

I see Arr Kate took my advice about a plain veil... ;)

Natural gas?

and it might explain why I love making quilts of those floors.

Was Princess B the one with that very strange contraption on her head that looked like something from a Dr. Seuss illustration? It was brownish and had these swirly things that stood up from the front of the hat -- looked like they were at least 12" high! Those swirly things looked like the cartoon swirls someone would draw over a cup of steaming cocoa. I saw the hat as the girls were getting out of their car and walking into Buckingham Palace with their Father. Odd -- very odd -- to say the least. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, CiaoMeow >^;;^<

If I could have been there, I would have had the most outrageous hat and the most amazing dress and would have loved every single second of being a total upper-upper-crust snob.

Sunny (the neckline of her dress is almost exactly like the neckline of the wedding dress my mom made for me)

I thought that Princess Eugenie had a blue paper boat on her head, at one point. Yes, the pair of them chose the wrong day for fashion suicide. They need better advisors, certainly.

However, Mother of the Bride was elegant and looked just the biz. Queenie was the same as always. She seems to wear a variation on that theme, including hat, everywhere she goes, now. She looks neat and tidy, and I hope she feels comfortable. She deserves some slack; I doubt I shall be able to complete half the stuff she gets up to at her age.

I always think that the foreign dignitories look the best. Sometimes a National Costume can be a godsend. I suppose it all depends, in the end, whether one wants to be noticed (at any lengths) or to mingle with the crowd? I still think we all had the best seats in the house, courtesy of the BBC (et al.) I wouldn't have wanted to be there, in the flesh, at all. Too many people altogether.

Nel (Gadget Queen)

Eugenie's outfit was a Vivienne Westwood so I suppose we should be grateful she wasn't wearing a carpet. Someone should definitely offer some advice on what to wear to enhance her looks - at the moment she is rather a fashion disaster.

I liked Camilla's outfit too.

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

Did you see that BRIGHT BLUE contraption some poor woman wore to the Wedding? The camera kept dollowing her through the church. I swear it looked like a shild's toy space ship and was perched smack on the very front of her forhead!!! DH and I kept trrying to figure out how she kept the ugly thin in place. We finally decided she had to have used some sort of double stick tape that adhered it to the skin of her forhead!!!!! It looked like a large () pointy shape with all sort of curly, twisty, sticky outy sorts of bits and pieces. VERY strange and odd but at least it matched her dress -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^<

I just cannot stand it a moment longer.... tart-string???? Translation, please? ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.- battening down for yet another two days of durn-blasted RAIN and storms!!! (But yesterday was lovely!)

I've just been doing exactly the same thing.

And... yes, of course I watched it in the end, despite all my protestations otherwise.

And the dress was gorgeous and elegant and the flowers (lily of the Valley) were understated and, no doubt, fragrant, and the pomp and ceremony made me proud to be British. We can put on a good show when the chips are down. The lace was hand made by the Royal School of Embroidery and Needlework based in Hampton Court.

Some of those hats, however, were astounding, in all the wrong ways. Princess B and Mrs Beckham particularly come to mind. Posh just HAD to have a tart-string, somewhere didn't she?

Kate should love the dress, I think. Very fifties and plain, simplicity and fitting taking over from bling and flounces.

There is no-ne worse than a convert, and that's me. OK?

Nel =D (Gadget Queen)

There is a hairstyle beloved of chavs called a croyden facelift with tart strings.

Translation: Hair pulled back so severely and gelled solid so as to stretch the face skin back. Then you allow one (or two) small strands to issue from the middle of the forehead to hand at either side of the face (and be forever played with and brushed, provocatively, out of the way). I can't find a photo to show you, but a lot of girls wore it at school and drove me nuts. They also used to suck the ends: yukky!

A chav is a sub-sect of youngsters (predominately from the South of UK) who favour Burberry fashion. The lads wear baseball caps, trainers and tracksuits with hoods The girls wear tight mini-skirts with bare midriffs. Both wear a lot of jewelry, especially coin and signet rings.

Nel (Gadget Queen)

I thought Posh looked like she had forgotten to take off the cape from the hairdresser.

Lizzy

I forgot she was with child. I will forgive the tent on those grounds. That against the options, taken by so many celebrities, of all but a flashing arrow pointing to proto-junior, was at least appropriate to the occasion.

Nel (who was a pregnant mayor (no not mare!) years ago;) ) (Gadget Queen)

Not being a Brit OR a young person, I have been trying to decipher just *who or what* Posh is! I just saw a post over at RCTN talking about David Beckham's wife -- Posh Spice -- and it now makes sense -- LOLOL! She's the one who first showed up on my telly with that ridiculous headgear stuck to the front of her forehead. DH has decided that she likely had screw mollies imbedded into her skull just under the hairline so that she could screw the silly hats to her head and they wouldn't wriggle or shake or fall off -- LOLOL! Personally, I'm still opting for some sort of double stick tape used to adhere the hat to the skin of the forehead and the hair -- assuming ANY part of the foundation structure of the hat actually touched the hair covered part of the head

-- LOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^<

My DH is still talking about B's hat. I think he may be traumatized for life.

kiri and I were trying to figure out how they were keeping those "extreme front" hats on too. We ran through a great many silly ideas. I am betting on a combination of built in alice bands and combs, possibly bobby pins as well.

NightMist

Nails into the brain. You's miss quite a few, and they wouldn't notice if you didn't.