a stitch in TIME viii : & a little more

ALI-
an exceptional needlewoman.

with a large canvas,photographed by Tony Vaccaro

with McQueen, Ali MacGraw threading the needle

a hat by hand, Ali MacGraw in LOVE Story

 & in an elaborate crochet cap-stylin at the Academy Awards in '71.

(had to have made that!)

So-I've said ALI was my idyllic beauty as a 10 year old. I think my Mother complimented me-saying I reminded her of ALI. No doubt it was my full intense brow at the time. Thanks Mom, it made an impression-and besides she was nice-I thought. I've not changed my mind about that, she loved intensely-still has her own intense authentic style & is a crazy animal lover-she's an activist in fact. 

ALI is still stitching-she's created a pattern with Marion Foale yarns to benefit the Wildlife Emergency Relief Fund-here's the KIT.

does anyone knit? make mine 090- Dark Olive

I think it will go perfectly with my winter coats here

though this 060-Dark Red might be nice for a change.

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a Love Story

Sort of-

It is truly winter here in the Old North State right now-30's high- 20's-the low-and that was a warm up from nights last week. There has been one good Snow this month and there was ICE on Friday along with that phrase that forever warms my heart-"a wintery mix." Again tonight & tomorrow the counties along the northern borders will likely get another dousing of ice with a bit of snow.

a word I was conditioned to -SNOW- from my days in school. I never went to school a day I wouldn't have preferred to be home sleeping late-snow covering the ground- or as a child running in and out of the house-boots on, socks on-boots off-socks off.
quickly followed by coat on-toboggan on...

As a fashionable 10 year old, I took my cues from actress Ali MacGraw’s wardrobe in the movie, Love Story. 
Remember Jenny’s pea coat? 

 Pea Coat originating from the Dutch or West Frisian word "pijjekker," pij refers to a coarse kind of twilled blue cloth with a nap on one side.

I had a navy one. My brother wore my dad's Navy issue to bits-I never could get my hands on it!

A very few changes fashion wise-for one thing now I look forward to getting out a vintage loden duffel coat for the coldest days-its very heavy-very warm-one that I purchased on ebay about 15 years ago. 

The duffel coat was made popular by Sir Bernard “Monty” Montgomery during the war-and I think mine is from the very same era-and it's mint-minus about 60 or 40 years.

 Monty in huge Duffle Coat above & below (linked)

  

I purchased a Burberry plaid pea coat about 10 years ago & I love that one even more than the basic navy one

But- recently I've had a hankering for basic.

 

Hey-does anyone wear a toboggan anymore? 

I do, Oliver-
I do.

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ALI: LOVE story

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1 of my IDOLS when I was growing up- ALI MacGRAW.
SO great to see her on the cover of Town & Country's February issue. No reveals- or pictures, but she still is beautiful-& still with such a unique look.

photographed for VOGUE August 1969

& Surprise!
ALI was 30 when she filmed Good-bye Columbus in 1969.
Never a starlet-always a STAR- better yet- the Anti-Star.


Here I am age- 10, in 1969- The Eyebrow-Is it NO wonder I LOVED ALI?

Who was your IDOL at the age of 10?





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