Winter is officially over here, so right on target I've finished a wintery little dress. :) I spent some quality time with my dyepot, dyeing bright blue corduroy in four different moody blues for the colour blocking. This is my second version of Vogue 1316; I've dreamed up several different plans for this great pattern which I want to explore, including this one...
One of the things about a colourblock design is that I think it's more effective if the fabrics are all the same type and weight etc. As well as the colours blending in and going together nicely somehow. And it's hard enough to find great fabric that you love, in great colours that you love too, let alone a single fabric in four great colours that you love, and that go together harmoniously. Impossible! So I made my own nicely co-ordinating set of coloured corduroys :)
My originally bright blue cotton corduroy is from Spotlight.
I divided the pattern pieces up into their colour batches and laid them out on my fabric, leaving a good margin around each piece to allow for a little error, just in case, then cut the colour batches apart for dyeing. Before dyeing them I overlocked all raw edges to decrease the risk of distorting or stretching out the pieces during the dyeing process.
my tutorial for basic dyeing here
-deep inky navy, from a biggish dose of Black,
-royal purple; from a medium biggish dose of Crimson
-deep teal/aqua; from a medium dose of Chestnut,
and finally the rightmost batch was soaked overnight in the leftover bath of Chestnut just to take the edge off that brightness, tone it down and dirty it up a bit. The piece on the right is a small scrap of the original colour saved for comparison.
Details:
Dress; Vogue 1316, blue corduroy dyed in 4 different shades using various iDye dyes, my review of this pattern here.
Tights; self-drafted, navy blue stretchy stuff, details here
Boots; Roberto del Carlo, from Zomp shoes
