I’ve been seeing a lot of gorgeous pastel-inspired Spring palettes out there, but you won’t see anything like that here. Spring palette, what Spring palette?
The best thing about sewing entirely in monochrome (off-white, light grey, medium grey, dark grey, black, silver, black/white patterned) is that there’s never an expiration date for this season’s “colors”. I wore black for years and years year-round before I started to sew. I was always told it was a “New York thing”, and lately I’ve been starting to embrace it again, only this time adding pale grey and off-white to the mix.
Here are my candidates for the Spring/Summer 2012 SWAP (sewing with a plan):
Dresses: 2 – Long Dress, One-Shoulder Dress
Tops: 2 – Basic Shirt, Basic Blouse
Pants: 3 – Colette Clover in grey twill (not shown, already done), Colette Clover in metallic denim, Colette Clover in black denim
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Here are larger photos of some of my favorite fabrics from this batch.
The metallic denim I found is gorgeous. It’s very very dark blue but photographs almost black and is shot through with silver.
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This was the fabric that inspired it all. I found this splotchy black/white rayon last week.
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I’ve been quietly following a lot of modern designers as well, but that’s another post for another day.
Image sources: thank you Net-a-Porter for letting me dream big (and plan even bigger.)
I’m looking forward to the metallic denim clover pants!
I think all of your inspiration pics are so cool! Can’t wait to see some of these roll off your production line.
Thanks, Anthea, me too!
Thank you Elizabeth. I wish I’d incorporated more vintage patterns and vintage styles, but I’ll probably revise this as I go along.
oooh, this is gonna be fun! (and yes you can do jeans!) looking forward to seeing you in all these projects.
Thank you, Ali, me too! (I definitely need to learn how to make jeans in the future.)