Freyalyn's Thoughts

This is the blue linen blouse that I made Friday afternoon/Saturday morning.  It's a lovely fabric, a remnant from the Shuttle last year, a medium weight linen in a lovely lilac blue.  Very simple shapes, all squares and rectangles, and the bodice is self-faced so it's double thickness.  It is extremely cool to wear, and was good on Sunday's walk as it covered up shoulders and back and prevented sunburn (apart from the bit of my neck that I missed with the sun block.)


You can see where I got the shaping from.  This is the Nomad dress I made loosely based on the Folkwear Afghani dress pattern a year or so ago.  I can finally photograph these things more easily now I have the dressmakers' form.  This is so cool and practical in hot weather, though I really ought to make one in a little lesse, shall we say, exuberant fabric.  I was wearing this I think on Friday when Ma came round (I'd bought her a couple of things in Lush) and she just couldn't understand why I wasn't baking.  Ma's default for hot weather is as near to nothing as she can get - I often find something that covers but barely touches is much more cool.  T-shirts and shorts actually touch much more skin.

I trimmed the cuffs, neck and hem with a gorgeous green and gold ribbon, but sadly it just isn't up to the wear and tear of frequent wearing and washing.  It's starting to disentegrate, and I'll have to unpick it all soon.  I'll have to put something else around the neck.