If you don’t know what I mean when I say Design Your Wardrobe: Week 2 then you can check out my blog post about Week 1 for an explanation of this series by Seamwork Mag. It took me 3 weeks to get started on Week 2 so I should be calling this Month two!
Design Your Wardrobe: Week 2 – Defining a Colour Palette
If week one was all about inspiration, Design Your Wardrobe: Week 2 is all about colours and textiles! According to the series, choosing your colours and fabrics is the next step in the process of designing a collection, even before you think about patterns. My collection goal is to to have an elegant and comfortable collection to wear in Scotland that I can wear while relaxing in my family’s homes in Scotland with a couple of dressier pieces to wear at wedding and Christmas parties. So I am on the hunt for comfortable but elegant looking fabrics.
Shopping for Swatches:
First of all, we have been instructed to ‘Shop our Stash’. Since I’m still so new to sewing I really don’t have much of a stash, mostly I just have scraps leftover from projects that I’ve already made. I’m hoarding them in a bag under my dining room table to make pillows for my boring little couch. I do have a gorgeous burgundy silk noil that I’ve been dreaming of making matching separates with. Sadly, I don’t know if my skills have quite gotten there yet so perhaps I should use this for my collection instead.
Keeping my mood board (and a glass of wine…just kidding it’s sober September) close I continued on my journey to Design my Wardrobe. I did some digging through the Seamwork series One Pattern, 3 Fabrics to learn more about different fabrics to help me decide what I want to sew with. I’m definitely lusting after some french terry. Next, I went to look at porn…ie the Blackbird Fabrics website.
Fabrics that I love:
- French Terry (just ordered some from Blackbird Fabrics!)
- Cupro Linen and Tencel Slub (drool)
- Silk Noil
- Denim
- Sweater Knits
I’m struggling to find sweater knits online that I love so if you have any suggestions please send them my way. I’m looking for big thick sweater knits in cream, white, black and grey.
My Colour Palette
Design Your Wardrobe Week 2 Thoughts:
It took me a long time to get back to the Design Your Wardrobe Series. Now that the rain has started to fall, I feel motivated to have a real plan ahead of me in terms of what I am sewing. So two weeks finished, I have a collection theme, plan, inspiration and palette! Looking to the next dispatch!
