Showing posts with label brocade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brocade. Show all posts

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Sheer Panel Skirt

Hello friends!!!

Heads up: this week's post is going to have more pictures than I usually have.
No special reason except that I was unable to decide which pictures to cut from the ones we took on Sunday.
So ... on with the post!!!

The first time I saw a skirt with a sheer panel, I knew I wanted one and that I was going to make one for myself. That was probably a year and a half ago but better late than never, right?
I bought the brocade fabric at the same time as the gold and black one in this post so it's been about a year since I've had it.
We picked red as the main color for my choir at RCCG Love Assembly for last Sunday (10/25) and to be honest, I hadn't thought much about what I was going to wear. Red is one of my favorite colors so I knew I had at least one red dress, pair of pants, blouse, skirt, sweater and pair of shoes.
I recently made up my mind (again!) to work on using what I have in my fabric stash - mainly because I just moved and couldn't believe how many boxes of fabric were loaded in the truck. While designing a dress to use up some white lace, I took a detour and drew up the skirt. I didn't get to work on it immediately as I had a custom order to finish but I got the skirt done just in time to wear it on Sunday!!!!

Enjoy the pictures below (see if you notice the photobomber).

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

New Top Design - Not Sure What To Call It

* In November of 2014, I was Christmas gift shopping when I saw a picture of a doll in a dress that inspired this design. The dress was fit and flare and the bottom was 2-tiers: one floral and one solid pink. It got me thinking ... what if the bodice and first tier were a blouse that could be paired with any bottoms from skirts to shorts to pants to leggings? And while I'm thinking about it, how about a hi-low hemline?

** On Thanksgiving Day, I got Zi's measurements and brought my vision to life in kente print fabric. It worked!!! I was invited to a company's end-of-year dinner party and I made another version of the top in a lovely gold and black brocade that made me think of flames and paired it with the very first high-waist skirt I made. My version of a LBD dress :).
Enjoy the pictures below.

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The Top in Black & Gold Flames paired with a Pencil Skirt

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 I like how the opening in the front resembles a flame too.

Added black tights, black sandals, gold hair flower and black & gold earrings to complete the night's look.


The Top in Kente Print Fabric