For Day 6, I wore my grey jersey 1940 dress and my ness shoes. I also just happened to be in the neighbourhood of my local fabric store :)
One really fun thing happened in that I was waiting to cross the street and two lovely ladies behind me complimented me on my outfit! So sweet and it really made my day!
MMJ Day 7:
For this week's theme over at the Sew Weekly the challenge was to make something out of a pillowcase. Luckily, I've been holding onto two sets of pillowcases that I picked up in charity shops because I liked the fabric. I don't know exactly what I was thinking when I bought them because it would be highly unlikely that I would unpick the pillowcase to actually make something (plus as I discovered one of the pillowcase sets had french seams!!) Luckily this challenge came to the rescue and I could actually use these to make something! I present to you faux wrap blouse #1 which I will call 'Sunshine Overload" and faux wrap blouse #2 which I will affectionately refer to as 'Garden Surprise'.
Here's the 'Sunshine Overload':
Here was it's life as a pillowcase:
Not my usual colour scheme!! But I am oddly drawn to bright colours and thought these were fun prints. I got the inspiration for doing a faux wrap blouse from a pattern I picked up this last week at a charity shop when I was out with my niece Brittany:
It's a wrap dress and tunic pattern from 1968. Originally I was going to unpick the fabric from the pillowcase to see if I could use it for this pattern. As you can see in the illustration at the bottom left of the pattern, the main pattern piece is quite large. I would have had to put in a back seam and then I might not have had any fabric left over for a sash. Instead, I opted for a much easier route which was to make it a 'faux' wrap blouse and to keep the seams already in the pillowcase! I'm planning a more detailed post on the construction process! So stay tuned!!
Ok onto pillowcase #2 or the 'Garden Surprise'. This is it's life as a pillowcase (I'm just cutting out the sash tie in this photo):
And here it is as a faux wrap blouse:
I also made the skirt in fabric that I had in my stash. It's amazing how well it matches both prints. I used the trusted McCall 3968 that I used to make my navy blue skirt. The pattern is from 1940 and it is very versatile:
I made the skirt out of a lime green crepe back satin with the crepe on the outside and the satin inside. The only bad thing with crepe back satin is that the hem is not invisible. I may have to go back and give it a narrow hem. But other than that, I like how it turned out:
What do you think? I know it's a bit of a departure from my favourite colours like burgundy! Wait, did I just mention wine? heheheehe...
