Even though I have not purchased any fabric in over four years (and not suffered one bit, that's how much fabric there is around here), I never stopped collecting patterns. Patterns are the crack cocaine of sewing, incredibly addictive, and each new batch leaves you wanting more, more , MORE! Not that I have a problem with that. Patterns are small. I temporarily stopped my so far fruitless search for Simplicity 3536(but now I have two completely clean closets!)
to unwrap my new Colette Patterns, and immediately decided to make the Jasmine Blouse. So pretty! So feminine! No buttons or zippers- a big plus in my book. Although I've been making buttonholes since I was ten, I hate sewing on buttons and this is a perfect chance to avoid them.
As mentioned yesterday, when I cleaned out my office closet and previous fabric storage location, I found fabrics that some unknown person had snuck into my house. Luckily this unknown person has exactly my taste, so I could make the Jasmine Blouse out of blue charmeuse or cream silk jacquard. Or possibly both.
The new Peony Dress is a very ladylike kind of dress as my mother would say, and it would make a perfect LBD, and the Clover Pants are VERY Audrey. Audrey and I look nothing alike, but we can't let little things like that get in the way.(I'm more like Elizabeth Taylor, and very few people would say that she was a fashion icon...in a good way. She had her own style, though. She didn't give a damn about what you thought of her, and that's a style worth emulating.)
I know what I'm making next -what's on your cutting table for Fall?
4 comments:
I'm really sorry I read this post, because now I have to go take a close look at the Jasmine pattern. Yesterday I was so appalled at the accumulation of unused patterns in my sewing room that I swore not to acquire any more for at least the next six months. My resolve is crumbling already...
I can't wait to see this pattern made up and hear what you think of it! I really like the looks of the Collette pattern line, but haven't acquired any (yet). I have been sewing Christmas gifts. Boring!
It's a lovely pattern, and you make a very good case for acquiring it...but I am not gonna. Nope. welll, one mor peak-it *is* pretty...
You enabler you, that Jasmine pattern does look very pretty.What are we supposed to do when we are on a pattern diet and they print such nice new patterns? Crack indeed.
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