i have entered a challenge to design a formal dress for one of my girls. the challenge runs from feb 1-28 on doa. details here i can’t actually start sewing till the first but i have till then to work out the design at least enough to get all the supplies i need. so i’ve been putting together clippings, sketching like mad and now that i have a least a vague idea of where i’m going with this, pulling fabrics.
first i pulled out all my silks/laces spread them out on the floor. then started putting them together in color groupings, putting back in my bins anything that couldn’t be combined with at least 2 other things. once i was happy with the color matches i put them together in ziplock bags according to groups and set them aside for daylight.
step two was checking colors under daylight conditions. so each group got put on the table with the sun streaming in. this is where i eliminated some that no longer matched like this
and this…
i also needed to check that the colors worked in a photo since the judging will be done just with pictures
which eliminated groupings like this
which looked great in person but sickly in the photo
this one ”reads” completely wrong in a photo
the color gets really washed out, but it looks good anyway so it’s a definite possibility
as is this one
decisions, decisions, decisions….
