Home Made

Over the last few years i have become quite the collector of fabric.

All those tempting sales where you reason that $2 a metre is a steal, saying"its basically a $4 dress!!" to yourself and buying it. taking it home with a smile on your dile, But only to have it sit in your box of "to do's" for the following years.



So i have made my goal to finally do all those nasty 'to do's' and get my moneys worth -finally. I want to share with you the process and final peice's i come up with.

Do share your ideas if you have any :)





First off- #1 fabric-

Its a ivory and gold fabric, soft but structured. The design's colour's are reversed on each side.

I played around with the idea of making a top out of it, but decided that there wasn't enough fabric as i had cut chunks off it at an earlier time.

I have been contemplating different hem lines and how shapes may enhance ones legs, maybe?? (who doesn't want that?!) so i decided a plain skirt, fitted, with CB zip would be possible. The hem Line is to be scalloped edged.

BUt golly me, having it unevenly scolloped, i could not handle. So measured it out. Marked it up and began.

It was pretty fiddly going around the edges but it looks good and sits flat. Hi5 to me.

This is the finished product:

I'm really happy with the finish hem, the overall look and how it sits.

My only problem.... i made it sample size 12, which i don't fit into anymore.... :(

Gown concepts

i'm already thinking about next years ball season... just a little..

The following dresses give me amazing ideas but don't take them as they are; the first would make any normal woman look huge and pregnant, and the second a slag. But if you break them down into concepts and structural pieces, i really like them.

This gown has ALOT of fabric in it. so thats not very fun for anyone paying for it. But the ideas of layers in different shades and Panels blending the shades make my head explode. I would probably go for a more vibrant colour palet but keep the general idea.

Now this Versace gown is a wee bit on the slut side but take the bodice design of a star; the idea of creating a shape with the dart and seam details can give the dress a story, a focus, (or if you prefer-) something pretty to look at :)

i also like that the design is angled so that it shapes under the bust to create curves and blend with the shape of the wearers body.