Ideas often hit me while I’m laying in bed half-awake … I want the lady’s apron to be red with patches scattered all over. At first, I thought of buying Harry Potter patches to go with the Quidditch goggles. Then I wanted a Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team patch. Which I’d have to make.<\/p>\n
If I’m making them, why not make ones of all kinds of faux things, a la the Miss Steampunk skirt? It could be multi-fandom … like Milliways and UNIT … then I thought Batwing Candlewax for some reason and figured, why not go really authentically steampunk and make up fake band names that are taken from Victorian novels? Such as …<\/p>\n
Heathcliff and the Brooders
\nThe Eyreites
\nRosamond’s Many Charms
\nDeath Not Divided
\nLittle Father Time
\nJude and the Obscures
\nThe Brideheads
\nBathsheba’s Seven Years
\nThe Desperate Remedies
\nThe Egdon Heaths
\nThe Reddlemen
\nEustacia’s Pagan Eyes
\nThe Furze-Cutters
\nShadwater Weir
\nThe Quiet Woman
\nTess and the Durbeyfields
\nMaiden No More
\nAngel Clare
\nThe Mellstock Quire
\nThe Wildfell Tenants
\nVillette and the Brettons
\nLucy Snowe’s Secret
\nThe Governesses
\nActon Bell
\nThe Madwoman in the Attic
\nThe French Dancer’s Bastard
\nCathy’s Ghost
\nTop Withens
\nThe Foundlings
\nLockwood’s Nightmare<\/p>\n
I’m sure there are more. Gotta flip thru actual books for phrases. But this is a start. And, of course, I’m sure I’ll waste way more time designing patches than actually sewing up an apron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ideas often hit me while I’m laying in bed half-awake … I want the lady’s apron to be red with patches scattered all over. At first, I thought of buying Harry Potter patches to go with the Quidditch goggles. Then I wanted a Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team patch. Which I’d have to make. If I’m<\/p>\n