Spring/Summer Palette Challenge: The Dress

Holy moly, I am excited for this one. I have had this material & pattern matched up in my head for a while, but it's one of those projects that you just never really end up getting around to? Not this time!
I bought this pattern quite spur of the moment, and was initially drawn to the interesting bodice & the deep looking pockets.

I've been quite jealous of all the people that have made Gerties Bombshell Dress, but i knew i'd never get around to buying to the course (I'm just lazy really!). Seeing this pattern made me think of her design so I thought why not?

I like the idea of having a contrasting colour outlining the bodice, so I'm making version B.

For my fabric I've chosen the rather bright orange/black African wax cotton I picked up in a closing down sale from a fabric shop that's been located in my hometown ever since I can remember (very sad).
I'm going to stick with black cotton as the contrasting fabric.

I'm gonna warn you all now, this pattern is NOT for the faint hearted. There are 20 pattern pieces, then there's the lining & interfacing as well! I'm currently in a sea of fabric & tissue paper.

However I am excited to get started on this as despite the amount involved it looks like the construction should be really interesting.

I also wanted to quickly share something I came across while I was re-hemming a 1950's dress for my car show stall, I realised something very familiar about the thread I was using.

On the instructions of one of my 1950's blouse patterns there is an advert for this exact thread!

I thought it was pretty cool that I was using 1950's thread to repair a dress from the same era?!

Spring & Summer Palette Challenge - Fabrics & Patterns

After making my moodboard I started to go through my patterns for some inspiration, and see if I could match any up with the fabrics I have.

So for the patterns I have the following as possible candidates.

Tops

My tried and tested blouse patterns, although it's my birthday next month and I have asked for some Colette Patterns, so fingers crossed for a Violet or a Sencha to join the above!

Bottoms

I need some new skirts for work, so the Butterick and the 1970's McCalls are ideal, I also really want to make another playsuit but I'm not sure about this pattern? I want more of a 1940's style like the ones Q's Daydream has just debuted here.

Dresses

A lot of options for dresses, although that didn't really come as much of a surprise to me! The vintage vogue pattern is actually intended for a 1950's theme night I'm attending in July.

Now obviously, I'm not intending on making everything listed above, this is of course just an idea of what I could make.

Now for fabrics -

Blue

Top: Embroidered Silk, very small amount, maybe 1/2 metre?

Middle: Butchers Stripe Heavy Cotton, again very small amount, possibly 1/2 metre

Bottom: Floral Georgette, 4 metres

Orange

Top: Polyester Crepe with Orange/Blue squares, 3 metres

Middle: African Wax Cotton, 2 metres (I think?!)

Bottom: Pheasant Printed Georgette, 3 metres

Mustard

Drill Cotton, roughly 2 metres.

Burgundy

Polyester Suiting (I believe?), 2 metres.

At this moment I own nothing that's of a khaki/beige colour so this is what I'm keeping an eye out for next.

Any suggestions on what would work well together?

Colette's Spring/Summer Palette Challenge

After reading Sarai's advice on how to put a mood board together, I took it upon myself to have a peek at what's left in my stash and see if there were any recurring themes. To my surprise I have a few pieces of fabric that feature the colour orange, which is not something I usually buy in rtw clothing. In fact the only two pieces of orange clothing I own are both tops, and both are leopard print!

So with this in mind I put together this -

I love the combination of orange and blue together, they suit each other so well. I also found after inspecting my wardrobe that I don't have a lot of yellow items of clothing either, so I've opted for a mustard colour in my palette.

To balance things out nicely I chose to incorporate khaki/tan/sand/beige whatever you want to call it?! I think this will work nicely with the other bold colours I've chosen.

Last but not least, we have burgundy. I love me some red, but as I've already got bright orange & golden yellow I figured having a darker red would make a change. I particularly like the idea of making some shorts in this colour.

I've also given myself the challenge of not buying any fabric with polka dots *gasp*, it's going to be hard but I need a break from seeing those dots under my machine foot!

Image Sources
All fashion images apart from top left orange dress sourced from CaliVintage
Orange dress sourced from The Wayward Daughter
Other images sourced from Google Images