February 2022

Blue: This flu season has been terrible. I’ve been having to keep handkerchiefs in every pocket. 

Brown: I see that. however you should truly wear a hat — bare heads always lead to colds.

Blue: I didn’t have a scarf earlier … I had to improvise. With my hat.

Brown: Suddenly, I’m not feeling so well either. 

Sheila at Out of the Ashes is having one more camping sale, now with Monday — 15% off the patterns at her store, with the coupon code CAMPING. have at it!

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Lisa sent me this gown … her only comment was “Holy cow.” as well as I see that “holy cow” as well as I raise her a “holy moley”!

I like this dress, however I’m not going to buy it. even though it’s only $35 at vintage Sedona at Babylon shopping center (click on the picture to go to the shop page). very first of all, it’s not my size (it’s B40/W25, which is one *hell* of an hourglass). however mainly I’m not going to buy it since a gown such as this … well, anything this outrageous I want the enjoyment of making myself. I want to understand that I was personally responsible, from the get-go, for the retinal assaults I’ll be committing. I want it to be a full-fault thing, not some wimpy “mistakes were made” cop-out. Not “Oh, I discovered this online,” however “I bought the material as well as discovered the pattern as well as orchestrated the entire tragedy.”

It’s most likely a ridiculous quibble on my part, as well as heaven only understands when I’d get around to discovering wide-stripe rainbow silk anyway (although I’d most likely make it in cotton, to ensure that I might wear it more often) — so you’re most likely all safe. For now.

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So friend-of-the-blog Robin is having an Etsy sale, as well as you should truly inspect it out. display A:

Her whole shop is just outstanding — Robin has exquisite taste. (Basically, anything she sends me goes  STRAIGHT TO PINTEREST. She’s that good.)

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So I had this concept that, for one week, I would try to wear only things I HADN’T made myself. The few RTW pieces I have, vintage, etc.

I made it to Monday: 

Seriously, I woke up Tuesday morning as well as looked at the three (!) daywear-appropriate, weather-appropriate options I had (two bought RTW skirts as well as a vintage dress) as well as stated “The heck with this” (or words to that effect) as well as went directly back to my regularly-scheduled rotation of made-by-me stuff.

I’m not rather sure what I was trying to talk myself into, except that stitching does take a great deal of time (which I’m short on ideal now, as I’m sure you may have observed from the dearth of articles recently) as well as maybe I believed that if I might get back into the swing of using RTW, I wouldn’t feel compelled to sew so much. (“Pfffft, fat chance,” is what I believe my response to myself was.)

Anyway, if you’re interested, the sweatshirt is a J.Crew “Jackie” cardigan bought on eBay; the blouse is this dotted-swiss question from Boden; as well as the skirt is a pink wool Cynthia Rowley (with excellent pockets!), gotten at Filene’s lo these lots of years back (I’m quite sure it’s a lot more than five years old). The belt is from H&M, gotten in a pack of three. undetectable in this photo (and undetectable on my legs) are a pair of microfishnet tights, likewise in pink. The enjoy is one of my favorites, a silver plastic Swatch.

So anyway, that was the beginning as well as end of my RTW challenge. What wardrobe difficulties are you working on (or providing up on)?

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