Sewing | Vogue meets Vivienne Westwood

         

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Dame Vivienne has long been an inspiration to me; mostly because of her devil may care attitude which I envy and find empowering.  Plus, she started out on her illustrious career in her 30s, at a time when career changes weren’t so common.   That self-knowledge and self-belief makes her a hero in my eyes.

Her designs look good on all sorts of women from titan curvies to waifs; which not only shows tremendous skill and understanding, but it’s also just plain positive and accepting.

Suffice to say, there was a fair amount of subconscious thought behind this skirt.  I had some tartan left over from my favourite sewing project of all-time and I thought it would be fun to play with the pattern in an unexpected way.  Enter the Lialia dress pattern with its crazy folds.

Love the folds in this pattern - something unexpected

Strike a pose!

Yes it’s a derriere enhancing design, but that’s part of the fun!

This last photo was taken just as a top tune came on the radio 

...so I got a little excited J

I’ve made the skirt before, so knew that it would fit etc, but also knew that it was very short.  So this version has a small band along the bottom of it.  Other than that, the only difference is that this material is patterned – but what a difference that makes, don’t you think?