Today is the last day of One Week One Pattern and I have enjoyed the challenge. I might have enjoyed it more had I not challenged myself to two patterns, but oh well!
Today I’m wearing a new White Russian, which can’t really be described as it is multi-coloured and I stupidly decided to embellish it with zips. Still, you can’t know unless you try, right?
This was a real stashbust. I had this multicoloured cotton knit that I bought on sale and decided that I needed/wanted some contrast to break it up. I fossicked in the waste bag and came up with this blue fabric that is actually the wrong side of some blue and white stripe which I used for a Coco and a dress.
I also decided, for some reason that I wanted zips and didn’t have any the right colour, so used the wrong colour and “covered” them with strips of the blue fabric.
I think this may have been ok as I wanted to tie the coloured bands into the body a bit better, but I made the strips a bit wide. I am planning to pull this all apart (tonight) and redo it.
I have been pulling stray threads off the top all day – I have no idea where they all came from as some did not seem to relate to the top, but they were gone by the time I got to work. I couldn’t make the neck sit flat, no matter how many times I took that band off, so in the end I decided that it was intended to sit up like that! As always, I prefer the back view.
The second part of my OWOP is the Vogue 1247 skirt, and I decided at the last minute that this top went best with the camel skirt from yesterday, so pardon me for wearing a skirt two days in a row. Very poor organisation!
{update} I rushed home from work and removed the zips.
Then I decided that I liked the concept of the zips and had another go. I made them a bit straighter and a bit lower. They are only tacked on here. What do you think, shall I keep them or not?
Roundup of the week’s outfits for OWOP:
Incidentally, I inadvertently wore a third pattern all week – the Indigorchid t-shirt undies. I won’t bore you with photos but I wore them all once and a couple of them twice. Quite pleased with the over achieving 🙂