A Feeling Genki Kimono

I enjoy making my own clothes so that I wear or style things exactly how I want, but it's also handy to copy something I've seen-and-liked in a shop. Cue trying on a lovely floaty kimono in *Popular British High-Street Shop*,  thinking it was so pretty and then double-taking at the near-£50 price-tag. I thought surely I can make that!

Pinterest throws up so many kimono tutorials- I used my own variation of this one. Then last week I found this market bargain fabric- Liberty cotton jersey! Dreamy in pattern and ease-of-sewing. I wish I had bought all of it.

£6 and cotton- vs a poly-mix £49.99? Winning!

Sunshine Top | Dressing Handmade

A record at my first effort at top-designing....I wouldn't say pattern-drafting, as I basically combined two of my top patterns with my own little additions, but it's a design start! I am really pleased with how it came out and I love this fabric.

I treated myself to Tilly's lovely tote bag and aptly, have just spent a lovely weekend away wearing only my own handmade outfits, by accident to be honest, but so exciting nonetheless :)

My design sketching on some old hotel notepaper...this needs some work! ;)