If you read sewing blogs, I’m pretty sure you know Roisin from Dolly Clackett, a lady of wonderful style, who loves funky shoes and fit and flare dresses in crazy patterned fabrics. She’s made everything already: polka dots, gingham and florals of course, but also mushrooms, boats, Eiffel towers, world maps, comics, cowgirls, and that’s only a small selection! She’s really inspiring, and with her huge smile and funny blog posts, reading her always put me in a good mood, so she’s truly one of my favorite bloggers out there. So when Sarah from Rhinestones and Telephones launched a dress contest à…
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Ok, so, total honesty here: one of the main reasons I made this dress is because its name reminded me of this one-hit wonder of eighties french synthpop, and I just had to share it. T’as le look coco, coco t’as le look !
Let’s get serious for a moment! Because this is a project that is from my perspective as important as a wedding dress: I made a dress for my PhD thesis defense! …which by the way went really well, thank you, you can call me doctor now 😀
I wish I hadn’t said anything! Last week I was complaining about the sun preventing me to take pictures, and there I am, stuck here because of the snow! Let’s take this opportunity to show you another warm, cosy knitted dress made by my grandmother.
What? You knitted a whole dress?! Haha. Just kidding. I’m definitely cheating here, because this project is not my own but my grandmother’s! The day when I’ll be able to knit a dress in size 4 needles has not arrived yet, but my grandmother knits at the speed of light and thanks to her I now have years of pretty sweaters and dresses in my collection. I know, I’m so lucky 🙂 So I thought some of you might be interested in seeing some of *her* makes…