Manic Pop

Today's blog post is in collaboration with the lovely Tanith of Tanith Rowan Designs !  Tanith has been doing a great series on hats through the decades and picked me to be her 60s girl! Make sure to check out all of her posts!  I was so excited when Tanith asked me to be a collaborator for this series - based in Australia, she makes some really beautiful vintage-inspired hats! Via our original correspondence some time in February, we talked about my love for bright, out-there colors as well as how I was getting into the whole arrow-motif thing. She was able to put a fun arrow on this hat! She kept the hat a surprise so when I opened the box I only knew she was sending a helmet-style hat, which I love.    For my contribution to this collaboration, we decided I should make a garment to match with it. I've been wanting an arrow dress for some time, and this is what I came up with!   Quick Photoshop of my sketch ...

This post is in collaboration with NYC-based artist and friend of mine, Jane Chu! Jane and I worked at the same store long ago and I have always been a fan of her artwork. I'm so excited to have her collaborate with me on the blog! Artwork by Jane Chu This is a dress I finished earlier last month around the 19th but haven't gotten around to posting it. My life has been changing a bit, but all very positive changes getting me going in the directions I have been wanting to go!  This dress was based as exactly as I could to the pattern that perhaps once came with the 1969 Simplicity sewing book. Mine didn't come with any patterns, but it does have a nice diagram of the patterns. I was most of the way through making it when I realized though that if you have a cuff on your sleeve you need an extra opening piece - like a placket or a binding. Duh. I took the easy way out and created a binding from two 1 1/4" strips of fabric.    Cuff binding o...