Dearest MaiTai,
Thanks so much for giving me the inspiration to play with my scarves, in particular, the pochette/gavroche. I have always like them to hang on my handbag, and now with your small scarf ring, and the fur collars, they have found a new occupation! It occurred to me that I could extend their usefulness even more by combining them. I had two in the same pattern, Brazil, and that was my start. I then tried matching colorways and those two were...... Another combo was just picking out a color from one and trying it with another pattern. Trial and error all the way.
[All pictures © by gracekelly]
'La tour Eiffel s'envole' and 'La pluie d'etincelles'
'La tour Eiffel s'envole' and 'La pluie d'etincelles'
'Crayons' and 'Tohu Bohu'
'Bolduc' and 'La tour Eiffel s'envole'
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Thank you so much, my dear gracekelly, I love this idea and am honored that you agreed to be my first guest author. It is truly amazing how much mileage this method gives to Gavroches, and I admire how harmoniously you have combined the different designs and colors. The outcome is fabulous! Mille merci xx
How-to: Fold two Gavroches in the basic bias fold, and tie them together at one end with a small knot or scarf ring. From there, experiment with different knots and ways to tie.
Place the resulting long stripe on your neck, with the ends hanging down your front. From there, you can try a variety of knots, with or without scarf rings.
Ooh, I love this idea!! Very well executed too.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on both points, Deja Pseu. Here's to GK!
ReplyDeleteIt is a fabulous idea! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea gracekelly & MaiTai! I assume the 2 gavroches are joined with the petite scarf ring at the back? Just when I was wishing Hermes would make their gavroches bigger at say 18" like DKNY - this idea solves the problem :-)thank you!
ReplyDeleteLovely idea - the only question is how? Because of course that is one of the things I love most about your ideas is that you illustrate exactly how to execute them. This is begging for a video!
ReplyDeleteMerci beaucoup!
Thank you dear MaiTai!! You have made a beautiful presentation. Hope everyone enjoys the viewing!
ReplyDeleteTo answer Scarf Addict, you can just tie them together in a small knot or use the scarf ring. Whatever you would like.
What a great idea! Suddenly you have so many more possibilities of combining your gavroches into different scarves! Thank you, dearest MaiTai, and thank you as well to gracekelly. It is such fun to exchange different ways of tying our much cherished H´scarves. Hugs, M.
ReplyDeleteWow! I would have have gone on only using my gavroches on my purses and summer hats, but this opens up a whole new venue for these lovely little treasures. Thank you Grace and MaiTai!
ReplyDeleteMT, love the idea of the occasional guest author. Positively inspired!
Dear Tereza, Scarf Addict, SEC, Manuela and Charlotte, many thanks for your kind comments, I am so pleased you enjoyed this post. Here's to gracekelly, and her generous and creative spirit!
ReplyDeleteSEC, I have edited the post and included instructions at the end. Good luck!
Dear Manuela, the exchanges here are truly inspiring to me. All guest posts, style challenges, comments or questions make this a lively and happy place, so a big thank you to you ladies!
Thank you, dear Charlotte. I too enjoyed gk's post very much, and hope that it has paved the way for many more guest authors to come forward.
My dear gracekelly, very happy you liked the published look, and thank you so much again for sharing this great idea, and for creating the post with your gorgeous scarves and fabulous knots, you ROCK!! x
Dearest MaiTai,
ReplyDeleteFantastic! I love collaborative efforts. Thank you so much to both gracekelly, for the great idea, and to our dear MaiTai for sharing and bringing it to us! Speaking of maximizing, the two gavroches together make a whole new scarf - particularly love the Crayons/TB combination. It is truly amazing how many ways one can fold and tie a square scarf, or two - possibilities are endless.
I'm transfixed on your gorgeous JP's, dearest MaiTai. Love how you placed them too. Ms. Moka is absolutely stunning - one of the most delicious browns I've ever seen, and the older sister is positively glowing.
Have a most wonderful weekend. Warm hugs always, xx
P.S. If I only had a magic carpet, I could blink and be in Paris. Until then, dreaming of D with you…and please have a glass or two of bubbly for me at TB with M & M <3
What a lovely idea - they extend the use of gavroches a lot more! I'm off to try them out on my new gavroche (I'm twins with you on Brazil, and I have to admit, I finally caved in on Cent plis which you got when we visited FSH, teehee). Have a fab weekend! xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic idea, and it could be expanded to Twilly's too- one twilly never looks right around my neck, but two would to the trick and I love the idea of mixing the colors rather than matching 1:1, Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful idea gracekelly and MaiTai. Thank you both for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHow ingenious!! I especially like the first too combinations, and as Leslie mentioned this can be applied to twillys too!! Excellent!
ReplyDeleteDearest Scarf Enthusiast, I could not agree more on collaborative efforts, and the TB/Crayons combination is my favorite too. It looks as if these are the actual crayons that were used to draw the TB design! Many thanks for your wonderful welcome to Ms Moka JB, I am truly in boot heaven. Our magic carpet would have to made of H silks, and there is a seat and glas of bubbly waiting for you at the TB, anytime. Hugs to you too xx
ReplyDeleteHooray, dear DD, twins yet again! Between you and I, we could come up with triple or even quadruple magic scarf creations! Congrats on the CPdM, I am glad we now both have the same souvenir of a fabulous day spent together xx
Love the Twilly idea, dear Leslie, many thanks for sharing! gracekelly is a true master at colour matching, and such an inspiration. Have fun with your Twillys! :-)
I am happy you enjoyed gk’s wonderful post, and many thanks for your kind comment, my dear SMR x
I could not agreee more, dear JA_UK, and between gk’s and Leslie’s ideas, we are having a lot of playtime lined up, hooray!
I love to wear more than one scarf at a time and I love gracekelly's idea of tying two gavroches together. Thank-you for posting, to both of you! Now I need to get more matchy-matchy gavroches...
ReplyDeleteSorry I haven't commented lately, but I always seem to be short of time. However, I'm still following your posts with great interest and delight, dear MaiTai!
And ditto on two twillies!!!
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So great to see you stopping by, dear dance! Hope you are happy and well. Happy you liked the post, have fun shopping for Gavroches (and Twillys!)!
ReplyDeleteDear MaiTai, only now did I read this post on the gavroches. Such a great idea to combine two gavroches! Recently, anticipating warmer weather, I started to get interested in other scarf formats like the gavroche and the 70 carre. As always, your website and your scarf rings are such a wonderful source of inspiration. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Cynthia! If you like the 70 format you might want to hurry, there are rumours that they'll be discontinued from next year on.
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