Peg Dress & Petone

As you may have guessed from my earlier post - today is Anzac Day in New Zealand, which is a day of remembrance for those we have lost in war time. I also means we get a public holiday.

Rich and I had a quiet day off - Rich had study and I was intending to do sewing, although to be honest I didn't get much done. I did wear this dress though that I finished making last weekend.

Here's a close up of the fabric - it has pegs all over it. It's kind of a random print, but kind of fun too. I means why not have a dress with pegs on it?

 Rich decided to take a few artsy shots of our building whilst we were taking these photos - as you can see the scaffolding is still up. I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever come down, I asked the property manager about it but their answer was at best vague.

In case you were wondering, I did manage to actually get out of the house today. Rich went up to the university library to study and I went to hang out with my friend Nankz. We had a coffee and then went to the beach in Petone.

It feels weird having to go back to work tomorrow after having Thursday off - I guess the up side is I only have one more working day and then its the weekend again.

Upcycling my own creations - Horsing About Skirt!

If you've been following my blog for a while, you may remember the horsing about dress that I made in September of last year. I liked this dress when I finished, even though it was a pretty basic design (I guess you need a basic design when you're making a dress from mad horse fabric) but I literally only wore it once which seemed like such a waste of precious fabric.

I decided I had to do something else with it and as there was quite a lot of fabric in the dress plus a few scraps (just the right size for interfacing) the horse dress was reborn as the horse skirt.

There really is no point in keeping stuff in your wardrobe you're not going to wear right? So upcycling was really the only thing for it!

The theme of these photos kind of ended up being "signs around our apartment" first up - the exit sign by the stairs.

Then it was time for the towing sign in the car park - this sign actually puzzles me a bit, as you have to actually have keys to the apartment block to even get into our car park. So I'm not sure who could actually get into the building to park here, I guess maybe if you parked in the wrong space you could be in trouble.

You know much of New Zealand is suffering from a drought right now, but the weeds in our car park still seem to manage to grow at a prolific rate. Perhaps its all the pigeon poo?

OUTFIT DEETS:

Boots - Bought in Seoul
Tights - Farmers
Skirt - Made by me
Belt & top - Glassons
Necklace - Rose Street Markets, Melbourne

Horsing about dress

Last week I was supposed to do a "Sew-a-long" with Meg, but that didn't turn out, due to all my lady problems. Over the weekend I felt like making something - but I wasn't quite up to sewing my "Chloe Dress" (I have now started it - yah!).

So instead I made the super simple "date dress" from Simple and Chic Sewing - the date dress is actually the dress on the cover of the book. It's basically two rectangles sewn together - with a bit of casing along the top. I found the casing to be a little lose, so I added some elastic to keep it firm.

If you've been following my blog for a while - you'll know how much I LOVE a good novelty print. I decided to use this horse fabric I bought at the last fabric-a-brac in Wellington.

When this dress was finished - it had pretty much no shape, but I kind of knew that would happen. Given that it's made up of two rectangles. The dress pattern includes a sash for shape, but I decided not to make it as I already have a whole bunch of belts in my wardrobe (I wear a belt pretty much every day).

I decided to wear the dress with a cardi over top - it's may be spring, but its still pretty cool. Also the cardi helps to tone done the extreme horsey print. I added the white belt for a bit more definition.

Oh dear - I have red eyes in the photo like a crazy lady! Here's what the final dress looked like. I'm still not convinced that I like it - but I was having a bit of a bleh day on Monday - so perhaps its just a case of bad day, bad photo. What do you all think?

Next stop - the Chloe dress! I hope you've all had a great start to the week, I've just gotten back from the gym. It's time for a quick shower then I'm off to a quiz night. Wish me luck!