Brisbane Frocktails!

Sophie and Rosie

Bianca, Karen and Alice

Collette, Kat and Lizzy

Erin and Julie

Bianca, Karen, Collette, Kat and Lizzie

Unknown sewer, Me, Marjorie and another unknown to me person. (photo stolen from Buzy Lizzie's instagram)

I had such a wonderful time last night. It was a beautiful setting; by the pool of the Rydges Hotel at Southbank. We had lovely morsels of food, lovely chatter and some lovely sparking beverages. Can you see the sparkle in Marjorie's dress above? It is beautiful with the simple design letting the fabric shine, literally. The fabric of Unknown Sewer on the left was divine and had a beautiful, 50's type pouffy (meant in the good way) skirt, can you believe that fantastic sequin fabric of Unknown Sewer on right came from Spotlight???!! No Spotlight I've ever gone into... in real life it looks simply sensational.

As I said yesterday, I was hoping that someone would recognise my fabric as I scored it from the High Tea in March. And someone did... Erin had donated that piece and I'm so glad she did. It's a beautiful fabric. Perfect for this dress.

After wearing this dress all night I have to say there will be others! It fits really well (after some modifications of the top half) and is SO comfortable. I recommend this dress to anyone, especially if you don't have a lot of time as it is probably a maximum 2 hour sew up (the tracing... well that's another story - maybe you'll prefer to download it from the Burda site - I was too cheap to do that :)!).

On my way there, I was thinking how marvellous it was to be going to see some 25 people, all who made all their own beautiful outfits. As I said to Marjorie last night, I see hundreds of people buying stuff at Spotlight, East Coast Fabrics, The Fabric Store etc but other than the Brisbane Spoolettes and two friends, I'm looked at as some sort of alien (the good sort). I hope there are more meet ups in our future. A great BIG THANK YOU to Rosie for organising the evening - she's been pretty busy these last few months (years Rosie?) so it was great she made the time. Thanks Ladies for a great evening!

Oh, can we talk favourite dresses? I LOVVE Karen's dress. It is so beautiful, I'm so glad she wore this one as in real life it is even more luxurious than it looks. Really gorgeous (like Karen!). I really loved Alice's dress too... she's a real laugh!

*Sorry the photos are not the best but until the flash goes off in the dark I can't even see what's on the screen.

Paris, river cruise 2022 - photo bomb!

(this post has been in my drafts since July 2022 due to life circumstances. I'm just going to write just a little and then just show some photos) My friend worked on a Superyacht for many years and through this connection was offered a friends and family deal on a river cruise in Europe. It was a deal too good to miss even though it wouldn't have been a first choice for me for a holiday. She had done this trip before but during the winter taking in the Christmas markets. We were going in June 2022. We decided to have 5 nights in Paris (where I'd been 5 times before) and 2 nights in Amsterdam where my friend lived for 2 years in her youth. We flew into Frankfurt... not because we wanted to but because these were the only flights we could get but we worked with it. Remember great deal! So ok, a short (5hr), fast ride on the ICE/TGV trains got us to Paris eventually (one was late which missed the connection to the earlier TGV but there was one a bit after). We...

YFASMA - Fabric shopping in Athens

I promised this post in March! Fabrics from Euro1 per metre! I didn't buy anything in this shop but there was some lovely fabrics. I did buy the green and pink one above on the right. A satin finish rayon. It is lovely. There was a lot of lovely fabrics in this shop. It wasn't cheap Euro 8 p.m. but I didn't have a lot of room in my bag and I wanted something I would really love. I also didn't buy anything in Paris this time. I did buy the fabric for a table cloth just across the way from this shop. I also bought some orange/white weave linen fabric for Euro 4 p.m. at another shop, which I think I'll make some summer trousers with. As I was going to the airport, I saw this dress on the platform and I really liked it. Very easy to do too, I went to the Benaki Museum while in Athens. There is actually 2 locations. In this one I saw lots of Greek and Cypriot cultural crafts. This was a bridal bed in Crete. There was lots of clothing, embroidery and gold jewelle...

More things I've made - part 2

Hello... welcome to part two of things I've made. I now realise there will be a part 3 as there's more I can't post tonight. These things I made last year before I went to South Korea for a holiday. The photos of the top that I made with the Vogue pattern above are down below. Don't know why Blogger won't let me move them, but I don't have time to argue with it! Anyway, I made it with some merino French Terry I bought years ago. It is merino loops, but the outer facing part of the fabric is nylon. It's very lightweight, warm and comfortable but not the best for this pattern as the nice high neck doesn't stay up high, but it's still really nice and useful in my warmish winter. I made it as the vest top and hemmed it and bound the armholes with some fold over elastic I bought at some markets in Lisbon in my trip last year. I put a chunky metal pink zip as the closure. I will make this again as I really like that it's not a boring old pullover. I...

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