Tulip season! Tulips are my favorite flowers. AND I found the perfect vase for them from CB2. They are on sale, snap them up! Really perfect.
This photo makes me fifteen kinds of happy. You, Lady, ROCK!
This post has nothing to do with fashion, I just wanted to do some ‘fatties in action’ stuff. (Although the marvelous space invaders bag in the foreground is mine!)
Defying gravity and looking dorky while doing it? I’m on it.
Solutions: Monday’s collage, when I was in a day-long fog. I’m hoping my brain is more sparkly today.
Think Spring! Wuh? Thrilled to wear this dress last Sunday. I bought the pink denim yeeeears ago. Cut and started the dress 02.28.09. Starting drawing. Markers ran dry. Picked it back up with new markers a year later. Finished drawing. Set it down for several months and finally sewed it together the end of July. Posting it mid-September. *shrug* That’s the way it goes sometimes. Most importantly, it’s DONE and wearable!
First inspired by Andy Warhol’s early illustrations, I drew on the denim with Marvy Broad Points, DecoFabric Opaque marker in white and the thin lines are a black Identipen.
This was the first dress I put slash pockets in. It was a little futzy to do, but well worth it.
I absolutely love wearing these dresses I make. I’m a walking canvas. If you’ve been thinking of decorating your existing clothes or sewing your own, go for it!
Pharmacy Phabric, 2yds. 90% delighted with my Spoonflower fabric. The 10% off is my own learning curve about colors and printing. I bought 2 yards of the linen/cotton blend in my design. Really happy with the weight and feel.
Spoonflower has about a 20 day production lag. Happy that they are bursting with orders, but I was impatient. I popped for rush order. I paid a pretty penny, but very pleased to have designed a fabric first thing Monday morning and had two yards of my very own design by Friday afternoon.
Gotta get my sew on…
Colorslut
(Not as dirty as you think.)
Amihan taught me most of what I know about dyeing fabric. Once when I visited her in Madison, I felt extra comfortable in her home when I saw her tub still tinged with dye.
I like this short interchange when she posted about my blue burst dress.
Amihan: Sweet! You’re starting to flirt more seriously with blue, I see…
Brandy: I am a colorslut. I flirt seriously with every color but purple, brown and white.
Amihan: My relationship with red has become much more serious, but my relationship with brown continues to be very casual. I’m still in deep with blue and purple, of course. Colorsluttery is fun!
Brandy: Chartreuse is about to put a restraining order out on me.
New fabric designed by ME. Ordered on Spoonflower. Two yards of the black background on a linen cotton blend to make into a new jumper dress, aka the Uniform. Rush order. Paid umpteen dollars since the current production time is ~18 days. 1 yard of the white background on lightweight cotton lawn, no rush. Probably make a scarf. Curious about the weight of cotton lawn.
Man, oh, man I love creating patterns. Nowadays you can set up a Spoonflower shop of sorts, get 10% on orders of your designs. This could be dangerous. If you like my designs, let me know. May encourage me to set up shop. Don’t think it’ll make me tons of money, but I’m yet another design/sewer with aspirations to be a fabric designer.
