I love using coordinating prints. When I saw this fabric on AliExpress, I knew I had to make some sort of colourblocked dress from it. But what?? Strangely enough, colour blocking does not feature as heavily as one would expect in vintage outfits. So I sat on this fabric for years and years until I was watching a rather fabulous show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and I saw this beauty! Isn’t this dress just stunning? Of course it is made from some sort of silky fabric that I would ordinarily have no access too and it is more of a traditional colour block with solids instead of prints but I knew this was the direction I wanted to go with for my dress, so off to draft a pattern. Now it’s not an identical replica, obviously. I didn’t have buckle cover kits at the time so I sacrificed a cheap belt for…
Home is wherever I’m with you. It’s been a while, sorry about that! A lot of stuff has happened, and I can’t wait to share it with you.…
Uhhh, so I’m very late with this post, sorry about that. The issue isn’t that I was late to making this outfit–I wasn’t, I made this outfit on…
It’s as good (bad?) time as any to make a dress. It’s been a strange and eerie moment on this timeline. The whole world (well, the sane part)…
Happy Valentine’s Day! I know I’m late to the party, but I completed this before the actual day, so that has to count for something, right? While I…