Fiend for Polka Dots

 
I have a slight addiction to polka dots. Especially white ones on blue fabric. The first I made myself using a 1950's pattern and the second I purchased just today. I now have 6 blue polka dots dresses!

Pretty soon I'm going to have too many blue dresses, but I do tend to like them best. Red doesn't look that good on me, although I like it. Lovely green dresses are hard to find. Yellow that isn't too well...yellow is also hard. I wore too much purple as a child and now I don't like it. And I'm quite picky about black, grey and white clothing. It has to be either really simple or really beautiful so it can be matched with other things or pretty enough to stand on it's own.

Tea Party

It would seem this blog is actually serving its purpose. I am currently making two t-shirts, a dress and am about to make a skirt as well. I would show you my progress but my dress lacks a zip and my t-shirts aren't yet quite complete. However as these are all small details before completion I imagine they will be up soon.

I am excited. I started this dress ...maybe a year ago! I have completely changed my original design but it will be nice to have it complete.

For now I am taking a break in sewing to have a tea party! I have some new...would you call them accessories? accessories for my tea pot? Which by the way is very beautiful. It was my great grandma's.

And how adorable is the owl gingerbread...man? Gingerbird.

Mum bought him for me. I don't want to eat him! But at the same time it seems mean to let him go stale and decay. Maybe in a few days I will eat him. For now i have Nutella on toast and choc chip cookies. Mmmmm. And chai tea of course.




bye bye birdies x

Introductions are in order

Hey,

I'm Madolin, if by some weird chance you've managed to stumble across this blog and don't already know me.

I've been watching an unusual amount of television lately. By unusual I probably refer to the fact that I've been watching it at all. With the exception of a few UK shows I tend to forget that television exists. But I've been doing a lot of Art assignments lately and mindless television does make a good background.

Anyway the reason I bring this up and in fact the reason for creating this blog is this: there are a lot of very nice clothes out there. I always have plans to make this dress or another or that item of jewellery or make something out of that piece of fabric. I rarely get around to actually following through on these grand thoughts, probably because I'm lazy. But I figure if I make this blog maybe it might help me to follow through on at least some things.

At the very top of my list is the fact that I need to take in my teapot dress. Either I've shrunk, it's grown or it never quite fit me as I imagined it did. I suspect the latter. The next item is to put a dart in the back of my cars dress.

There's also a whole load of jewellery that I need to make or at least jot down some drawings for. Same with dresses. Fortunately for me the internet and the 'snapshot' button of my media player can provide me with a wealth of images for inspiration.

As to Violet Baudelaire's dresses, I thought I'd start off with something that I wish I was skilled enough to make. Aren't they unbelievable? Look at the detail in that wedding dress.
Maybe one day.

Bye birdies x