I’m so behind on blogging! so this is part one in what I hope is a serious attempt to catch up… so I made this little black dress a little while ago… it’s light and floaty and breezy so really it’s a summer dress. And I’m wearing it here on basically the coldest day of the year… ha! But I do like it styled like this for winter! so I guess… good?
The fabric: which I appreciate you can’t see at all in any of my pictures, because of its matte-ness and it’s blackness, sorry! anyway; it is a lightweight crisp fabric that has a very slightly bumpy, seersucker-y quality to it… I’m not sure if it’s silk or cotton or linen but I’ve a feeling it is a combination of two of those components. I bought it in Fabulous Fabrics quite a long time ago for another project, that I’ve completely forgotten what it was so I decided the fabric was fair game, eventually! I’m seriously trying to use up my stash this year… yes I’ve probably said that million times before but I’m really serious this time. I think I’m doing quite well! because I’ve bought just one piece of new fabric all year. I really want to buy some more lovely fabric that I am really really keen on… but am trying so hard to be good about this!
Anyway, the lightness and crispness of this black fabric was perfect for this design, so I’m very happy I had it and it was pretty much the perfect size piece too… so it worked out really well. Oh, the design! Well, it’s the Fibremood Dolly pattern, which is big and floaty and has huge, gathered sleeves, so it’s very trendy, I think. I do like it though! I really like the neckline with a little tie to pull in a gathered V neck. It was so cold on this day I actually wore it for real with my mustard cowl, and also my shearling coat as well as the usual underpinnings pictured, brrr. I’m excited for when I can wear it all summer long!
Oh ok, so I’m just going to slip another extra thing in here…. did I mention our wonderful youngest son Sam has become engaged to his beautiful lady, Lainey? We’re so happy and excited to welcome this lovely lady into our lives, she’s the most gorgeous girl and has willingly and happily acted as a model for our little pattern company a few times, so her face has definitely been seen around here before! Anyway, they recently moved into their own house and asked if I would mind hemming their lounge room curtains. Of course I hate hemming curtains, but it was absolutely lovely to go and hang out with them while I did it. It took an entire morning basically and we chatted away and it was a really nice morning in the end. So I didn’t hate it at all in the end.
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