Lucky for me I got my grubby little hands on this pack courtesy of Frannie. It was delivered along with a bunch of other goodies, including my Cath Kidston iPhone case, a matching bag, and several cardis from Primark.
YAY for Frannie!
Sunday, 30 May 2010
One of the things I miss about London...
Lucky for me I got my grubby little hands on this pack courtesy of Frannie. It was delivered along with a bunch of other goodies, including my Cath Kidston iPhone case, a matching bag, and several cardis from Primark.
YAY for Frannie!
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The Macaron Trial
It actually looks better on than it does on the dummy (and once again the poor lighting doesn't help but I tend to get things done at night when there are less distractions and I am more awake) but you get the drift. I'm actually really happy that I won't have to make any drastic changes to the fit.
The finished trial with one sleeve tucked in (you'll see the reason for this soon)
I was umming and ahhing about a couple of things:
1) Sleeves or no sleeves?
I was set on the sleeves but I saw Antoinette's version and quite liked it.
I decided to be a smarty-pants and see for myself what mine would look like both ways. After a bit of copying and flipping of my original picture, this is what I got.
Sleeves vs Sleeveless
Seeing as I'm not a massive fan of bias binding since I seem to be useless at it, I'm going to go with the original sleeve design. Also, it's winter over here and the thought of no sleeves at the moment gives me goosebumps!
2) Middle band or not?
Antoinette decided to remove her middle band - or rather she left it there but didn't use a contrast fabric. Gertie's version on the other hand went with no contrast but has what looks like a thin ribbon around the waist. Then when I look at Kathie's dress where she kept the contrast and added piping, I am TORN.
Once again, copy/flip gave me a better idea of my options.
Original pattern / No band / Slimmer band or ribbon
I think no band is the safest but as my contrast band will be in black, I might be doing myself a disservice since black is always slimming ;)
Black for the top and contrast band against the black-patterned white cotton
I think I'll have to cut the band in both materials and decide as I go - it shouldn't be a problem since I always buy extra fabric to allow for mistakes!
I was umming and ahhing about a couple of things:
1) Sleeves or no sleeves?
I was set on the sleeves but I saw Antoinette's version and quite liked it.
I decided to be a smarty-pants and see for myself what mine would look like both ways. After a bit of copying and flipping of my original picture, this is what I got.
Seeing as I'm not a massive fan of bias binding since I seem to be useless at it, I'm going to go with the original sleeve design. Also, it's winter over here and the thought of no sleeves at the moment gives me goosebumps!
2) Middle band or not?
Antoinette decided to remove her middle band - or rather she left it there but didn't use a contrast fabric. Gertie's version on the other hand went with no contrast but has what looks like a thin ribbon around the waist. Then when I look at Kathie's dress where she kept the contrast and added piping, I am TORN.
Once again, copy/flip gave me a better idea of my options.
I think no band is the safest but as my contrast band will be in black, I might be doing myself a disservice since black is always slimming ;)
I think I'll have to cut the band in both materials and decide as I go - it shouldn't be a problem since I always buy extra fabric to allow for mistakes!
Monday, 24 May 2010
This week...
...is all about getting a whole lot of things done - I've taken a week off between jobs to sort out some personal admin and I guess prep for a new job I'm starting next Monday (hurrah for me!) but to ease into it all I've taken a couple of days to just get back into things sewing-wise.
This does not of course mean that any of my mending is going to be done - no time for such things when I could be having fun buying materials for my stash:
Especially loving the 3 Minny Muu prints from Lecian at the top
and making a start on my trial Macaron dress so I can plan out the real thing properly.
Halfway done - excuse the shoddy lighting and my half naked dummy
I just need to remember at some stage that I have other priorities... :)
This does not of course mean that any of my mending is going to be done - no time for such things when I could be having fun buying materials for my stash:
and making a start on my trial Macaron dress so I can plan out the real thing properly.
I just need to remember at some stage that I have other priorities... :)
Saturday, 22 May 2010
Thursday, 20 May 2010
This just makes me smile
*Courtesy of a forwarded email. I tried my best to look for the source of the pic but no luck.
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