Scarves Scarf of the Day 2021 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

[Karenska]

“It will be fun they said”, she muttered to herself as her so called friends ran off.
“It’s never fun, I hate Fun Houses… they’re no fun at all. But there’s no way to go but forward, so here I go.”
She went down the darkened hall, feeling with her hands the wall. When she reached an opening, she turned down that way, even though the darkness seemed even heavier.
Suddenly a light flared, and a disembodied arm reached out and grabbed her shoulder.
View attachment 5242199
She screamed, shook it off and ran down the hall. As she walked, she felt something cold and clammy brush against her leg. She looked down and saw a large fish swimming around her, its whiskers twitching
View attachment 5242198
She gave a little squeak and hurried on.
”Oh my gosh, what is this place?!?”, she whispered as she rushed down the dark hall.
The lights flashed on and she heard a terrible roar as she found herself face to face with a huge lion.
View attachment 5242200
She screamed and turned around to run back the way she came when she tripped over something in her way. She fell into a doorway and as she picked herself up all the lights came in and beautiful music began to play. She stood up and found herself in a large room, with chandeliers and statues. As she looked around the room, she noticed in the distance a small stage with words printed below it. She walked up to the stage wondering what the words meant
View attachment 5242201She then glanced up at the stage and saw to her horror a shocking display.

View attachment 5242233
As she turned to run away, a voice intoned
“To pass in the incision of the floor of the stage”… when the floor opened beneath her and she fell into the blackest of black pit.
Grand Theater Nouveau
View attachment 5242234

Wonderful!!!! A spooky scarf story. Twins, too!

 

[Karenska]

TY @Nomad for the compliment and returning it for the history and lovely mod shot!

Oh @blydia so sorry about the snag! But as I learned in Wabi Sabi week often we are the only ones who see the flaws in our scarves. Your precious bebe is worth a thousand shawls, snagged or otherwise!

This week I’ve seen more Zabavushkas than I have in several years! Mine was rehomed long ago for lack of knotting skills. If I’d seen your mod shot @Agrume I would have Daren how stunning it truly is

TY @Awillow !


Beautiful scarves @Redbirdhermes and love the history behind them!

Beautiful double face @turfnsurf !


Both are such lovely shawls @Tasha1 !

this is gorgeous @Marie-the-Mary !



TY and oh my your collection is fabulous @LKBNOLA !

Love the scarf ring @tlamdang08 !


Fabulous pair of silks @labelo !

Beautiful j’s @bunnycat ! Every pet owner can relate to the nightmare of time changes and feeding schedules


@Croisette7 your collection is breathtaking for its depth and beauty!



Beautiful blues @lanit !


More stunners @Croisette7 !



Ty @Karenska ! What a beautiful journal - I am envious of knitting skills but lack the focus to learn this. A goal for the future!

Thank you, Snausages. Knitting is a great pleasure but also challenging for me. I make a lot of mistakes. But as a lover of textiles, I hope you can give it a try. It very calming.

 

[Croisette7]

They were pretty good, this time... Didn't get me up until 6:30 (my body still says 7:30). Kitty B&B- that's me 24/7/365


Thank you Croisette!



I love your marvelous parade of Js Croisette!



Thank you Tasha! Your Sous l'Egide is fantastic in this colorway!




These are both fabulous lanit! And I adore that SE Cosmographia!



Beautifully put together LKB! Enjoy your trip!




Thank you kindly! If only ALLL my scarves could have come to me at this kind of deal!



Thank you dear Karenska!



Thank you textilegirl! I am so thrilled with this one. In excellent shape (but missing care tag) and I can live without that big ol' thing...



Thank you! I did do something similar this year. The yard decor became a sort of "personal memorial" for me this year. We lost 3 of the 4 large ash trees in the February storm, and so I used a lot of bundles of wood and brush stacks with my pumpkins and scarecrows to memorialize all the things that didn't make it. I too find Halloween a reflective time, as I tend to operate solitary most of the time anyways, but this year especially. I am glad we set up the candy giving station outside though, so the knocking and doorbell didn't upset any kitties this year. I'll probably keep doing this from now on.



Your J-L Clerc is beautiful! And I think you may be very right about the contrast hem making a difference. I shy away from blank borders as well, but that dark hem is delicious with this one.

Thank you, bunnycat!

TY @Nomad for the compliment and returning it for the history and lovely mod shot!

Oh @blydia so sorry about the snag! But as I learned in Wabi Sabi week often we are the only ones who see the flaws in our scarves. Your precious bebe is worth a thousand shawls, snagged or otherwise!

This week I’ve seen more Zabavushkas than I have in several years! Mine was rehomed long ago for lack of knotting skills. If I’d seen your mod shot @Agrume I would have Daren how stunning it truly is

TY @Awillow !


Beautiful scarves @Redbirdhermes and love the history behind them!

Beautiful double face @turfnsurf !


Both are such lovely shawls @Tasha1 !

this is gorgeous @Marie-the-Mary !



TY and oh my your collection is fabulous @LKBNOLA !

Love the scarf ring @tlamdang08 !


Fabulous pair of silks @labelo !

Beautiful j’s @bunnycat ! Every pet owner can relate to the nightmare of time changes and feeding schedules


@Croisette7 your collection is breathtaking for its depth and beauty!



Beautiful blues @lanit !


More stunners @Croisette7 !



Ty @Karenska ! What a beautiful journal - I am envious of knitting skills but lack the focus to learn this. A goal for the future!

Thank you, Snausages!

 

[Karenska]

Kudos @Karenska for hosting a marvelously entertaining spooky week!

Thank you, Turf, I wish I could have been more present but being out of town on vacation didn’t leave me with much time. You all carried the day with your wonderfully creative and scary stories and drop-dead gorgeous silks! Thank you so much. I’m still trying to get through; not an easy job, just spent the last two hours and still have about 14 pages to get through, so I’m going to do alot of loves/thanks/wows, etc, and comment sparingly.
Here are a few photos:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Titian Room. The one Titian, The Rape of Europa, that hangs here permanently is with the other companion five paintings comprising the incredible special Titian exhibit that we saw. We could not take flash-free photos of the exhibit itself, but it was ok to take them throughout the rest of the museum.
The jaw-dropping beautiful courtyard:
Good Harbor Beach, Cape Ann:

Taming the 140 CS giant:

 

[Agrume]

TY @Nomad for the compliment and returning it for the history and lovely mod shot!

Oh @blydia so sorry about the snag! But as I learned in Wabi Sabi week often we are the only ones who see the flaws in our scarves. Your precious bebe is worth a thousand shawls, snagged or otherwise!

This week I’ve seen more Zabavushkas than I have in several years! Mine was rehomed long ago for lack of knotting skills. If I’d seen your mod shot @Agrume I would have Daren how stunning it truly is

TY @Awillow !


Beautiful scarves @Redbirdhermes and love the history behind them!

Beautiful double face @turfnsurf !


Both are such lovely shawls @Tasha1 !

this is gorgeous @Marie-the-Mary !



TY and oh my your collection is fabulous @LKBNOLA !

Love the scarf ring @tlamdang08 !


Fabulous pair of silks @labelo !

Beautiful j’s @bunnycat ! Every pet owner can relate to the nightmare of time changes and feeding schedules


@Croisette7 your collection is breathtaking for its depth and beauty!



Beautiful blues @lanit !


More stunners @Croisette7 !



Ty @Karenska ! What a beautiful journal - I am envious of knitting skills but lack the focus to learn this. A goal for the future!

Thank you so much, Snausages - perhaps you’ll find another! I understand, sometimes you need time to grow to love a design.

 

[Karenska]

Thank you, @Karenska , for hosting Ghost week. And, @bunnycat , I loved your Twilight Zone introduction to J Week.

I'm wearing Jan Bajtlik's Cosmographia Universalis today. It's my crossover scarf, because it is easy to imagine the ghost herd from hell "a-plowing through the ragged sky and up a cloudy draw" here.

View attachment 5243844View attachment 5243845

Most welcome, RBH. Love your CU. Excellent theme crossover.

 

[bunnycat]

TY @Nomad for the compliment and returning it for the history and lovely mod shot!

Oh @blydia so sorry about the snag! But as I learned in Wabi Sabi week often we are the only ones who see the flaws in our scarves. Your precious bebe is worth a thousand shawls, snagged or otherwise!

This week I’ve seen more Zabavushkas than I have in several years! Mine was rehomed long ago for lack of knotting skills. If I’d seen your mod shot @Agrume I would have Daren how stunning it truly is

TY @Awillow !


Beautiful scarves @Redbirdhermes and love the history behind them!

Beautiful double face @turfnsurf !


Both are such lovely shawls @Tasha1 !

this is gorgeous @Marie-the-Mary !



TY and oh my your collection is fabulous @LKBNOLA !

Love the scarf ring @tlamdang08 !


Fabulous pair of silks @labelo !

Beautiful j’s @bunnycat ! Every pet owner can relate to the nightmare of time changes and feeding schedules


@Croisette7 your collection is breathtaking for its depth and beauty!



Beautiful blues @lanit !


More stunners @Croisette7 !



Ty @Karenska ! What a beautiful journal - I am envious of knitting skills but lack the focus to learn this. A goal for the future!

Thank you Snausages! Perhaps this time we will all acclimate faster...

Angel indeed. She's so precious.
Re shawls - I'm a shawl baby-er. I wear them like they are a three million dollar diamond. So gingerly, it's a wonder I can enjoy them at all. Trying to overcome this affliction. So sorry you snagged yours, blydia.

I'm a bit of a shawl baby-er myself. Sadly the ones I baby always seem to end up with the snags, and the ones I don't baby so much soldier on like a champ...snag free....

Thank you, Turf, I wish I could have been more present but being out of town on vacation didn’t leave me with much time. You all carried the day with your wonderfully creative and scary stories and drop-dead gorgeous silks! Thank you so much. I’m still trying to get through; not an easy job, just spent the last two hours and still have about 14 pages to get through, so I’m going to do alot of loves/thanks/wows, etc, and comment sparingly.
Here are a few photos:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Titian Room. The one Titian, The Rape of Europa, that hangs here permanently is with the other companion five paintings comprising the incredible special Titian exhibit that we saw. We could not take flash-free photos of the exhibit itself, but it was ok to take them throughout the rest of the museum.View attachment 5243894
The jaw-dropping beautiful courtyard:
View attachment 5243895View attachment 5243896Good Harbor Beach, Cape Ann:
View attachment 5243891
Taming the 140 CS giant:
View attachment 5243892View attachment 5243893

What a beautiful exhibit and that GARDEN!!!! Your Acte iii is right at home there!

 

[Karenska]

What a completely FANTASTIC week it has been! The scarfies really pulled out all the stops on story time!

BRAVO everyone!!!!

Of course, it's still a little early for Sunday where I am, so I will finish this week off for myself with one last scary tale....

It's 1:53 AM, and I am still awake, waiting for the dreaded TIME to arrive....the dreaded FALL BACK, that so many people love, and I hate. Why??? Why do we do it??? (I hate both time changes to be brutally honest. They mess me up for weeks....)

But while everyone GAINS an extra hour, I do not.... Nope, I don't. Because, for the cats, 7 or 8 AM (feeding time) will now be 6 or 7 AM, and outside potty time will not be 4:30 or 5 AM but 3:30 or 4, until I can work them forward...Their body knows the time, not the clock! So I expect I will be passed out around my usual time to post in the morning. So I am doing it early (...erm...late... )

Now onwards for me. (But feel free to share some more stories too if you like...)

07 Nov 2021 Brought to You by the Letter J: Jan Bajtlik, Jean-Louis Clerc, Joachim Metz, Julia Abadie

This week, we start November (YES! Where did the year go?!?) and start the themes for the eleventh month- 11 Pipers Piping.

Now, we had originally posted on the calendar for artist names beginning with J. But I thought, you know... why not find as much J as we can? So we are expanding this week for Artists with last name J, and scarves that start with J...and you get the idea.


This week bring out your fabby Jungle Love, your Jardin d'Hiver, your Jan Bajtlik, your Virginie Jamin and JUMP in to November with a J!


First up- I promised I would not keep everyone waiting on my fab Sales Goggle scarf from my scary story....


Please meet Virginie Jamin's Panoplie Equestre CSGM! I just love the border here!

View attachment 5243655


Jan Bajtlik - Animapolis Maxi Twilly Slim

View attachment 5243656


And any excuse is always good for Jungle Love.

View attachment 5243657

And now, my Twilight Zone is complete. I started at 1:53 and now it is 1:08....

Beautiful intro, Bunnycat, and I do hope you got some sleep. Congratulations on your Panoplie Equestre - it is stunning. And I love your Animapolis MT slim- sometimes I wish I’d gotten that one instead of the 90. I love my 90 but the slim is just a darling amount of silk. Yours looks lovely on you.
J is for the way you jamboree through town:


Or through the cosmos…

 

[Karenska]

I'm a bit of a shawl baby-er myself. Sadly the ones I baby always seem to end up with the snags, and the ones I don't baby so much soldier on like a champ...snag free....
What a beautiful exhibit and that GARDEN!!!! Your Acte iii is right at home there!

The exhibit, Titian: Women, Myth and Piwer, featured six Titian paintings (1551-1562), commissioned by King Philip II of Spain, was spectacular. They have not been seen together since they were painted, I believe. It also featured a portrait of the king and one of Queen Mary Tudor, who was quite a bit older than he; they married, uniting their vast power.
The enclosed courtyard garden was unbelievable. Yes, Acte III would have been perfect there, but I wore it the night before at dinner. L’Arbre de Vie, also appropriate, was at the Museum.

 

[Karenska]

L V I N G the spooky stories
& sweet silks this week
______________________________
Mine is a cautionary tale that may
(or may not) be true...

A long time ago (longer now than it seems)
one couple met at another’s for dinner. While visiting one friend dashed upstairs and upon returning produced a square of silk and identified it as Hermès in hushed tones; the DH’s were in another room, but within earshot. The ladies closely examined that expensive bit of whisper soft, ethereal silk and admired it’s beauty & obvious quality.
View attachment 5242838
(image-H scarf ad)

Unbeknownst to either party a silk microfilament detached and became airborne. It wafted aloft on the air currents created by the undulating gossamer fabric and headed towards the visitor, landing neatly in her ear canal. The lovely scarf was then carefully put away, but not before it planted a seed...


Not long after the visiting friend felt a need to wear more scarves. She began to wear silk near her skin and liked the feel so much she acquired a few more to have choices. She wore them in her hair, around her neck, shoulders and even waist. Sometimes two at a time were worn; so more needed to be procured!

An H scarf was purchased as a treat. It was carefully stored and one box somehow became two...
View attachment 5242849
From then on no other brand of silk managed to find its way into that closet. Perhaps it was the designs that beguiled the wearer, because surely it wasn’t the H silk itself?
View attachment 5242842
(image H scarf ad)

As time went by the few turned into many... once freed from their boxes it was as if they were multiplying by themselves (even producing twins)!
A spreadsheet was generated to harness the chaos, but the pandemonium of colored silk continued to grow to epic proportions. A warehouse was built to house the silk mountain and at times a crane needed to move large precious piles around to find a specific design for a SOTD theme. Local officials are lately contemplating bestowing its own zipcode on glorious Silk Mountain. It might become a tourist attraction like DisneyWorld!



So readers be warned
(I fear for many it may be too late)-
the sly little H silk microfiber may’ve nestled in an ear, but somehow managed to travel to the brain and later firmly affixed in the heart.


Spooky Mr.Bones front & center on C’est la Fete pour Halloween
View attachment 5242854

Too late pour moi
All I intended was to buy one scarf... and then the Scarf Goblin whispered sweet nothings into my ear...

This spooky story couldn’t be morw true, Turf. Cautionary tale indeed…

Scarf Goblin - perfect! Scarf Fairy first. Those first sweet purchases, just three or four. And then the pile grows. And grows. And doesn’t that lil fairy start to morph into an impish thing.

 

[Karenska]

He had been told thousand times not to meddle in the Forest spirits’ affairs.
And there he was, forever falling into the void, his limbs frenetically and wildly flailing.
After he had stalked and slain the white doe, myriad lights had appeared in the dusky woods and the Forest had looked enchanted, so full of light and ethereal music that, blinded, he had lost his bearings and suddenly felt the ground sinking beneath his feet, everything abruptly going pitch-black all around.
The only sounds he could hear now were cries of animals in pain and howlings of long-forgotten winds fiercely blowing in the desolate expanses of the infinite outer world.
Then, nothing. All was engulfed in darkness, silence and emptiness. All he could feel was the sharp pain of the dying white doe pervading his whole being. He was becoming the pain. He was being the pain. He realized it would last forever -if forever still had a meaning in this black hole- the stabbing pain, the whirling fall, the everlasting night, that it was his ineluctable punishment, under the silent watchful and indifferent gaze of the legendary Great Forest Spirit.
Unless anyone or anything showed to him the mercy he had lacked…

Such a sad and haunting story, Marie-the-Mary. And a lesson, too. Beautiful.

 

[Karenska]

Oh my! I hope the kitties adjust soon. Neighbour's Cat used to meow into my face at 3am to request (demand) snacks which I blearily provided while reminding her that we are not a kitty B&B.

Kitty B&B . Does the cat come through your window?

 

[Karenska]

My new to me Fantaisie Pittoresque, not at all scary in subject matter but deep black and antique gold so a bit spooky in look.

I didn’t know much about the artist, and I’m pretty sure I don’t have any other scarf by him, so did a bit of research:

François Houtin was born in Craon en Mayenne, France in 1950. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1971. He was trained as a landscape architect, and worked on such prominent projects as the renovation of the Jardin des Tuilleries in 1991. It wasn't until 1973 that he learned printmaking from Jean Delpech, and by 1979 he had become a full-time artist known for his highly detailed prints of utopian gardens. His prints mix equal parts of superb draughtmanship, deep appreciation for the history of Classical French landscape architecture, and his own unfettered imagination.

View attachment 5242073

Beautiful scarf and great information.

 

[Karenska]

Provence 31 October in the year of 1894.

The bells of the clock tower has just struck midnight. The little boy stood shivering in the lavender field, its flowers long since withered in the cold autumn. Suddenly the quiet of the night is broken by the sound of horses hoofs thundering on the ground. Out of nowhere a carriage appears, pulled by six black stallions, urged on by the whip from the coachman. It races through the field as if it is chased by the devil itself. Its elaborate lanterns, swinging by the movements of the coach, are casting a dim glow in the night. The boy’s blood turns to ice at the sight of the headless coachman.

This is the first recorded sighting of the carriage. It is rumoured to only be sighted on the night of all hallows eve. Witnesses claim the carriage bears the insignia of the empress dowager Cixi of the Qing dynasty. To this day, it remains a mystery to what happened to the carriage and the unfortunate fate bestowed upon its coachman and why it is haunting the French countryside.

View attachment 5242053
As a tribute to this weeks theme, I am for my scarf Friday wearing Coup de Gala gavroche with matching lipstick in orange boite.View attachment 5242052

A wonderful story and I looove your gav in this cw, Nahreen. It is a perfect carriage to be showcased as haunted.

 

[Nomad]

I am J-adjacent with a K today lol. With Kongo’s graff gav on today for a walk along the water while killing time between kids activities.