"Walk like an egyptian"

So I never finished what I started.

Without the right camera it was difficult (for my bf :) to get good shots of the actual show, but here's a mish mash of the Mara Hoffman show.  One of my *favorite* swimwear designers of all time!  Have you seen her prints?!  And the colors!!  In one word: thrilling.

And here's H collecting the bangles.And if you want to see the entire show (though the music has been dubbed):

Yay it's friday

Do you feel like you need this too?  I'd take a pool and a floating pretzel any day!  And throw in a frozen treat and balmy weather while you're at it.

Happy Friday!

[Images via Wildfox Spring 11]

Not a cape, toga or blanket

What will ensure that this kimono doesn't look like anything but?  I decided the answer was SLEEVES. So that is where I started!

This is the front and back, respectively.  I must say I am quite pleased!  I'm also kicking myself for not posting them yesterday, but I will get better at this blogging busy-ness, I promise. 

Above, uncut fabric, sketching sleeve shape via paper (aka pattern), cutting the fabric with the final pattern.

The #1 hinderance of my quick progress is (no, not myself or procrastination) but chiffon*.  I am by no means an experienced sewer or draper.  And neither have I blogged before.  So between fighting the shiftyness of chiffon, sewing chiffon while avoiding the impossible 1/8" baby hems, and making decisions, decisions, decisions on how to drape the slitheryness OHandIforgottophotographitagain, I've realized that it's a bad idea to start this project with chiffon.

*p.s. wiki says so too

But I don't give up easily, esp with encouragement from Mara Hoffman.

[Images from Style.com and Mara Hoffman website]