This post is part of the first Dress Up Party by Sara Lawson, the sewing blogger from Chicago behind sewsweetness.com. Every weekday from May 4th to May 29th you can find 2 guest bloggers sharing a garment sewing pattern review. Sara asked me to write a review and I went for the Marmalade Jacket by Waffle ...
The choice of the fabric is the step I most enjoy in making a dress! Looking at, touching and caressing fabrics is always something magic. Generally it’s love at first sight: when I see THE right fabric, I want it to be mine. And I mostly don’t have a project in mind when I buy ...
Here I am with a new post of the WARDROBE ARCHITECT 2015 CHALLENGE series to design and sew my own capsule collection. This time we are going to talk about colours: what are the main colours of my wardrobe? What colours make me feel at ease more? How can I classify them? As the exercises of ...
The aim of the exercises of the weeks 3 and 4 of the #WAChallenge 2015 was to analyse the shapes of the garments I like and combine these favourite shapes with other items to create balanced silhouettes, without thinking about colours, fabrics, prints and accessories. Thinking about what I like to wear over the year has ...
I finished up the exercises of the first two weeks of the WAChallenge 2015, where the aim was to figure out what my tastes are (and what they are conditioned by) as well as starting to understand what my core style is. Spare time is not really much and so I packed the first two ...
Colette Patterns launched the Wardrobe Architect 2015 Challenge last week. The venture's aim, for the second year, is to help those who take it up to create a personal spring/summer and autumn/winter capsule collection, that really reflect who you are…a sort of journey to find out your own style and the right method to more ...