So here's a little something I made over the weekend and wore to work on Monday. The top is up-cycled from a maxi skirt, I LOVED the fabric but I just never wore the skirt. I unpicked the seams thinking I'd try and make it into a dress or tunic and somewhere along the line it became a top - I'm not sure how that happened.
The top itself is from the basic t-shirt pattern in
"Built By Wendy - Home Stretch" I decided to lower the neckline a little as it was too high for me but I just eye balled it and it ended up slightly wonky - hopefully it doesn't look silly.
I'm calling this skirt my "Emi Skirt" I also made it over the weekend. It's my Emi skirt as in three weeks my lovely Emi will be leaving Wellington for Christchurch and at the start of the year she'll be leaving the country for Dubai and I'll miss her loads and loads. I've inherited this lovely blue fabric from Emi so I thought I'd name this skirt after her! I still have loads of navy blue fabric left as well as some purple and red so I'm sure there will be more "Emi" themed clothes in the near future.
Seen as we're talking about things sewing related this week I recieved a lovely package of joy from
Vix - which included a whole heap of old vintage sewing patterns - some of you may have already seen these via instagram.
She also sent me some vintage buttons and zippers - I rather like this photos of the zippers, looks a bit artsy.
Finally - I received some blue Barry M nail varnish which I'll try out this weekend when I have a bit more time. Thanks Vix!
I also forgot to mention last week that I did a guest blog post for the lovely Meg over at
Meg's Ragged Edge. My guest post was an inspiration post so you s
hould check it out and see some of the stuff that's inspiring at the moment (the beginning of summer is pretty high on the list).
Also last week Meg's Theme Wednesday last week was all about her
"Trees Dress" how awesome is that? Also in this post she wears amazing, super shiny docs - I like them very much!
Hope you're having a good week so far xoxox
