Shirt dress / lime green moodboard

Here's a Polyvore moodboard I created for my dressmaking class portfolio. It's the last week and I'm having to put together the portfolio fast if I want to pass the course! Not that it's about getting a certificate, but it'd be nice. I've used my shirt dress project for my portfolio, and so I've had to do a moodboard for it in retrospect.

I really should have done this at the start, as it's quite useful actually, it helps to define what you want from the project. I've started using Pinterest in this way now, like for my Modern Kimono Dress project - more to follow on this in future, at the moment I've created a muslin that was only half-successful and I'll be doing more with it as soon as the shirt's finished (just the hem and snaps to do now!).

Red & pink for Valentine's Day

So everyone's been going on about Valentine's Day, I'm not really into it myself (and no I'm not single, so don't accuse me of just being jealous!), but as expected there's been a huge Twitter / Facebook / blogging buzz about it. Lots of heart-shaped crafting going on in the online sewing world, but I'm not too into that sort of thing either. Just one thing caught my attention - Everybody Everywear is doing a feature on outfits combining red and pink as block colours. Now I would never have considered wearing red and pink together like this, but after looking at some of the posts and a little Googling, I think I *might* be a convert! Check out these 3 I found on Google:

Ok so the last one's a bit odd but I do like it :)

I have yet to discover where I stand on re-posting people's own photos from their blogs so I'll just give links to the ones I really liked from Everybody Everywear:

- this one from Knocked Up Fabulous, I really think she looks so gorgeous! Smart but cool.

- this one from Marionberry Style, which again is pretty smart workwear that I really love

- I found a few like this one from Rachel Sayumi where they'd gone for a much paler pink with the red, and that seems a lot easier to wear and very pretty. Not quite as striking though perhaps.

I really enjoyed looking through all these, and I definitely have been given the confidence to try this combination! Having said that, you've definitely got to be careful. I sifted through *plenty* of no-no outfits. I wonder what everyone else thinks of these celebs, but I think they could have done better! There were much worse out there, mind! You should go check it out on Google, I just searched 'Red and pink fashion'.

Happy Valentine's Day one and all!