I just finished taping together all 45 sheets of Sense and Sensibility's 1940's Swing Dress Pattern. It wasn't very hard, just a little tedious. I also had to be a little more careful so each page lined up.
And now that stuff I'm excited about: FABRIC! Some of these are in my stash and some I bought recently. For once in my life, I went to my favorite fabric store and I knew just what I wanted. There was no waffling, or dilly-dallying or internal debate. I knew I wanted wildcat prints and I was determined to get it. I kinda felt like Cruella, with her obsession for Dalmatian fur. I have been compared to her several times in my life, but that's another journal entry.
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| My newest acquisition. |
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| This is leftover from the S&M looking dress I designed for a fabric store a couple of months ago. |
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| The picture does not do it justice at all. This fabric looks and feels so yummy. |
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| Difficult to photograph red Crepe and its lining of red Geena. |
And while I was browsing in my favorite fabric store (with wildcat fabric in one hand, already cut) I spotted this:
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| Dia De Los Muertos cotton! |
This fabric is going to be a nice, fat bottomed kiss-lock purse one day. Or I could use round bamboo handles, time will tell. I can even use the patched scraps of wildcat print fabric to line it, who knows?
So now I'm torn. Which fabric am I going to use for this Swing Dress? Which wildcat print? Or if the wildcat print is not 40's enough or would not work at all, and I should just stick to the red crepe? Or should I get an entirely different fabric altogether? Decisions, decisions!
3 comments:
Hah! Would you believe, I can see the Day of the Dead print as the '40s dress.
Aww! I only have a yard of it and it was the last yard of the store. Huhuhuh.
Came across your blog, it's very interesting. I love Victorian fashion.
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