Today’s shirt pattern is familiar to those following this blog, I’m even getting a little embarrassed at how often it’s appeared here. It is Butterick 4985 again, this time with the addition of some little pockets on the front with lace flaps and the sleeves view B joined together at the top seam. I used baby blue nubbly self embroidered cotton for the blouse and topstitched the pockets and a few seams with double stitching in gunmetal dark blue. This was mostly to use up this particular colour in my thread stash. I also added an attached necktie in a bit of leftover border lace, again just to use it up. This can’t be seen very well in the picture because of the other scarf I’m wearing.
Today’s colour scheme is pastel-ly, with no white. I really like this soft combination of pale blue, yellow and pink, with the blue jeans. I have a confession to make: I realise how tragic this sounds, but I thought the cover of “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” to be such a beautiful balance of colours, and really inspired me to copy it in this outfit! Oh please, if I heard someone say that I would almost pity them, but it’s true! I suppose we are all find inspiration somewhere, and if you find it in the cover of a book then so be it. (I could expound the multiple merits of reading this book as it is superb and intelligent and full of pearls… but that is not the purpose of this blog)
I found my shoes yesterday in an op shop. They were $12, and hardly worn! I fell absolutely in love with them and had to wear them straight away. They are navy blue suede with elastic criss-cross straps over the top of the foot and a beautifully shaped heel. It’s often difficult to come across nice shoes in my size, even in commercial shoe stores as I have such big feet (size 10, or 41 in European), so this was an incredible find.
Today has been spent in pleasant industry and relaxation; I worked for several hours in the garden, did some grocery shopping and running a few errands, then met my friend J for afternoon tea.
Other details:
Jeans; Development
Scarf; unlabelled, bought in Labels (how’s that for an oxymoron!)
Earrings; selfmade
Shoes; Sandler, op shop
Beach-combing this morning; my husband was deeply disappointed that Mr Cappuccino Man seems to be taking a day off… So peaceful and blissfully tranquil out on the bay, we shared the beach with about fifteen people and everyone calls “good morning!” to each other, so nice; Sienna and other dogs sniffing each others butts politely along the lines of prescribed doggie etiquette… She trots past flocks of seagulls that chatter to each other in a vaguely outraged manner like little old ladies, and genteelly hurry along in a “don’t show them you’re scared” kind of a way. We brewed a pot of tea and had some of Mum’s muffins with yogurt for brekky out on the patio… It’s going to be a hot one today, so swimming again this arvo.
