Ever since I made my gingham shirtdress, I am completely obsessed with this type of garments. I see them everywhere, I think about them all the time, and I feel like my wardrobe needs a lot more buttons and collars. Given that in the past ten years I have accumulated a pretty big number of sewing patterns, from magazines to Big 4 to indies, I have a lot of options when it comes to picking which one should be my next shirtdress project. So I felt like it might be interesting to share my selection with you. Most of these…
The wedding season continues! As my blogging schedule is very chaotic, I’m not showing you these dresses in the order I made them, but rather in the random order in which I manage to take pictures. After wedding number 1 in Virginia, wedding number 2 in Toulouse (where I wore the rockabilly cherries dress) and wedding number 3 in California, I went to Portland to attend wedding number 4. As far as weddings go, this one was pretty laid-back, so I had a lot of freedom when it came to my dress (as well as my hair, as you can see…
Back in november, Tilly from Tilly and the Buttons offered to send me her then-latest sewing pattern, the Francoise dress, for me to do a review. Needless to say I was thrilled: I really like the style of this dress, reminiscing of the sixties, and I was already thinking about all the possibilities for colorblock with the seaming and the button tab. I actually had one particular color combination that I was obsessed with. By the time I was able to find the fabric, make the dress, take pictures and post on this blog, I had fallen into a spatio-temporal vortex and…
A few years ago I was really obsessed with gingham: I had shoes, swimsuits, rings, hair accessories, bags, dresses, everything in gingham. I even made it my avatar on Instagram, Pinterest and co. One of my very first blog posts here was actually about gingham. Yet it had been a few years since I had made something in this pattern, so when I started noticing that gingham was one of the trends for this summer I thought that it was time to get back to my tablecloth-flavored roots.
If you’ve read my Me Made May recap, you probably have seen quite a lot of this fabric. After my floral Moneta dress, and the waistband of my first Brume skirt, I had just enough left to cut the short version of Brume from the leftovers. Now if only I could find the same fabric again in another colorway…