PROJECT SEWN : : SIGNATURE STYLE :: SIMPLICITY 2256 : : SIMPLICITY 1873

February 25, 2014 by
Simplicity 2256, Simplicity 1873, Project Sewn Signature Style

  This is it folks.  The final outfit for this season’s Project Sewn.  It’s Signature Style week, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what the designers spin out for us this challenge.  And me? Typically, my signature style incorporates a liberal use of colour and/or pattern.  I like to give classic pieces a bit of whimsy and fun, with unexpected colour combinations, and/or a variety of prints.  Polka dot and gingham are perennial favourites of mine.  Brenda Kinsel’s Fashion Makeover and Dressing Your Truth gave me a style boost years ago, and I continue to learn tips daily from my favourite personal style bloggers.  Today I chose a fun graphic flower print together with a crisp white cotton twill.  I love the dress fabric’s bright tints.  It gives a classic silhouette a dash of the whimsy…

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SPRINGTIME IN PARIS DRESS | NEW LOOK 6799

February 17, 2014 by
New Look 6799, Project Sewn

    Project Sewn:  If the Shoe Fits.  This week’s theme, drawing inspiration from shoes, was waaayyyy too broad for lil ‘ol me, a slightly obsessed shoeaholic with a myriad of footwear to choose from.  Not only that, but I seriously considering going shoe shopping.  I mean, it was practically an invitation to buy new shoes, says I.  Yeppers…with absolutely no restriction on fabric or design lines, this week’s parameter was a recipe for overwhelm and indecision.  The good news is I didn’t say disaster.  Okay, first up; pick the shoe.   I let my blue and white spectator shoes get some love this week.  Purchased at a local consignment shop, I’ve had them since last spring. They’re Naturalizers, super comfortable, and they simply desire to inspiration.  Step one done, I pulled out my stash of thrifted fabric…

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PROJECT SEWN : : MAKE IT PINK : : SIMPLICITY 2256

February 9, 2014 by
Simplicity 2256

  {Jacket – Simplicity Pattern 2256 White Jeans –  Pure by Alfred Sung Pretty Pink Shoes – Anne Klein}    Another week gone by…another Project Sewn garment completed!  This week’s theme is Make It Pink, and I was eager to participate.  I mean, just look at that stash of pink fabric.  All thrifted goodies, all waiting to be morph-ed into beeyouteefull clothing.  Honestly, I didn’t intentionally set out to have a pile of pink.  I didn’t even think I was a pink person, if you know what I mean.  But here I am, practically buried in the rosy hue, and loving it!  How did I choose?  Well, the pink paisley fairly screamed, Pick Me!   So I did!  I was, I’m pleased to say, decisive on this point.  It was deciding what to sew that kind…

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PROJECT SEWN |A FAVOURITE FASHION ICON…

February 1, 2014 by
Project Sewn, Vogue Pattern 2356, Perry Ellis

{Pants – Perry Ellis Vogue Pattern 2356 {you can see the coat here Hat – Revisions ECO Fashions – Made in BC Canada}   Hallo!  The theme for Project Sewn this first week is favourite fashion icon.  I mused over this a bit; I mean I can’t really say that my personal style follows any single fashion icon. What I can attest to, is that  hands down, without question, Diane Keaton as Annie Hall was the first, and perhaps only, fashion icon that I’ve intentionally copied.  I have a very clear memory of shopping in the Salvation Army, long, long before it was cool, rummaging through the menswear aisles, returning home with vests, ties, and baggy pants.  Annie Hall’s dapper dress code was based on Diane’s personal style…menswear inspired, unique, and sometimes quirky.  Diane is still…

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