27th March – 1st April
(I’ve pledged to wear only clothes handmade by me this year and to sketch my daily outfits in my Fashionary. I’m calling this the paper doll project)
from left:
full moon top + little charcoal skirt, knitted green hoodie
white Tshirt + long layered lacey skirt, dk olive wool felt jacket
dark pink Tshirt + hiking cargo pants, handknitted socks, dk olive wool felt jacket
white Tshirt, hiking cargo pants, handknitted scarf and socks
linen army-style shirt, hot pink shorts, handknitted socks
charcoal/black stripe Tshirt, khaki hiking pants, handknitted socks
by the way, and I’m sure everyone is way smart enough to have sussed this out already; but just saying: when I draw my paper dolls merely carrying a cardigan as opposed to wearing it, that denotes that I wore it only for a small part of the day, like in the evening when it might be a bit fresh.
And: halleluia for fresh evenings 🙂
And: sorry I stuffed up colouring-in my hiking boots. Days 3, 5 and 6 here are supposed to be all the same shoes. My bad.
And: well. Can I just say; drawing lace to look anything at all like “lace” is flipping hard.
In stash busting efforts for March; I managed to whittle my collection down by another three lengths of fabric, woot! Namely, the sand-coloured silk/linen for the knots dress, a length of emerald green corduroy, and the blue cotton denim for the bell-sleeved top. Also kept up with my pledge to continue re-fashioning old unwanted textiles into new and useful things; by re-using the lovely wool felt from a long-unworn wrap to make my new cardigan/jacket thingy.
Well done!!!
I find your Fashionary capitvating!……. and I didn't know that the sketchings carrying a garment meant your only wore it part of the time. Thanks for the explanation 🙂
Your perseverance with this project is really impressing me Caroline, and reminds me of a Book that I have " A Lady of Fashion, Barbara Johnsons Album of styles and fabrics" which is design book/ledger from the mid 1700's. So interesting to follow both yours and her fashion journey:)
Cam you tell me more about your cargo pants? Self pattern or commercial?
Thanks,
Lynne; thank you! My cargo pants are made using ripstop cotton, and pattern 111 from Burdastyle magazine 10/2010, with a few modifications. You can read more about them here
http://handmadebycarolyn.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/hiking-pants.html
if you like 🙂
Thanks for the link and info. Hope to find some of that ripstop cotton. Have not seen it for sale here, but will do some more searching now that I know it can be had somewhere-lol
I just spent an amusing amount of time clicking from garment link to garment link, deeper and deeper into your blog like Alice down the rabbit hole. I'm so impressed with your project, and enjoy reading all your blog entries on your sewing projects! Very inspiring.
What a fabulous wardrobe, and the photographs are great. So well suited to your time away and classy!
I can see that your outfits are slowly veering towards fall (although we'd be happy to have similar temperatures in the middle of summer). 🙂 After the longest winter in recent memory, we actually had nice enough weather for me to study on my balcony and go out short-sleeved and with bare legs! 😀
Also, well done on the stash-busting!