Today I feel a bit old-world-jewel-y, like Aladdin’s cave wrapped around me somehow (yeeah, my similes sometimes, oftentimes leave much to be desired). I’ve always loved this fabric, bought on first sight at my favourite fabric shop, and felt inspired by its gorgeous shades of of gold, bronze, copper and raspberry, mixed in with a whole kaleidoscope of other random colours; it feels rich and warm, and yet in a light floaty fabric that can be worn on the hottest of days. OK, if I’m honest, the cardi is probably not going to stay on all day, forecast for a warmish one. Given the up and down nature of the temp it could be on and off more times that the proverbial … something (brain refusing to come up with any proverbs, here)
Take last night, was a bit chilly so I had to put on my woolly winter dressing gown to get my weekly TV fix of Bear Grylls doing his usual manly surviving stuff. Hmm… yes, ok…
Back to the fashion, I like how the general clash of brights actually go really well with this skirt. The shoes. Even the pedicure fits in, miraculously. Amazing how this baby blue nail varnish has actually complemented all my outfits, er, I’ll leave that one for others to judge, but I’ve loved it.
Got a few appointments today, and errands, been working on my weekly Wardrobe Refashion project (I’m pretty pleased with this one although its been more complicated that first anticipated), and its now off to walk the pooch….
Details:
Skirt; Vogue 7880, view B (minus the odd hanging thingys), burnt-out polyester chiffon
Camisole; Country Road
Cardi; Alannah Hill
Necklace; Sportsgirl
Shoes; Neo, bought from Nine West (I think?)
Nail varnish, Litl Boy Blue, Artmatix
Wow, I love the fabric you chose for the skirt
The fabric is incredible. I have this pattern and had not seen it made up until I saw your version. I love it with flowy fabric.
I had left a comment, but realized that my 9 year old daughter Emily was signed in instead of me. So I deleted the comment under her name, signed her out and signed me in. Sorry for the confusion. Emily has a sewing blog as well.
Wow! love the skirt. Great fabric choice. Love the colour and weight. You have shown again a pattern should not be judged by the example on the envelope. I am now tempted to give this style a go
Lovely fabric on that skirt! Is that from Fabulous Fabrics?? You seem to find way nicer stuff there than I do!
hehe Bear Grylls! My boyfriend makes me watch him every week. I was very pleased last night that he did not piss on his shirt and wrap it around his head again! EWWW!
Thanks for your lovely comments re my collection. I'd totally forgotten about it until I saw your felted table runner. I'm really excited about sewing at the moment, and looking at those photos again made me wonder why I quit fashion in the first place! I did get a bit sick of making all that arty stuff, now I'm way more interested in just making stuff I can actually wear!
What a very pretty outfit. I love the fabric.
🙂 I did really loved this outfit the fabric really suited the design of pattern you choose. Thinking of patterns we need to get back to fabulous fabrics again. I just cant believe we don't own that pattern i was after today i was so sure we had it. xx