Hello! :)So what’s new here? Just a colour, really. My Issey Miyake pleated top (vogue 1142) used to be a cheerful daffodil yellow, and now it is a murky-lurky, swampy, toxic-waste shade of green. Definitely far more me ;) Hoorah for dye!
Cassie was doing a wardrobe reno: an apricot cardi plus some black dye equals a new chocolate cardigan! and asked if I wanted the used black dye-bath for anything before she chucked it out. I barely gave it ten seconds of thought, just grabbed this top. It’s not that I can’t bear to waste a teeny bit of dye that might still have some oomph in it.. oh well, yes, maybe there’s that too. But I really liked the top and wanted to get it into circulation more. Yellow is one of "my colours", but the brightness was just not working with many bottoms… and furthermore since I’ve planned a very subdued autumn/winter wardrobe for myself then the bright yellow top would just continue to not work. And on a psychological note, not that I’m overthinking this or anything! but I think maybe brights are just too daring for my personality? I’m a bit of a mouse and perhaps bright yellow should just be limited to infrequent miniscule doses in my life.Ha! I reckon I’ve officially just overthought the whole thing, which is hilarious considering that I didn’t think at all before plunging the top into that dye-bath! Lol!
Anyway, now the main thing is that now it’s going to go quite well with the ivories, browns and greens of my swap.
Details:
Top; Vogue 1142, yellow silk over-dyed in a weak, already-used bath of iDye in Black, original details and my review of this pattern here
Skirt; my own design modifications to Vogue8363, cream curtaining fabric, details here and my review of this pattern here
below; before...
