Ok, well, I think I have got that out of my system, time to play with that silhouette and the one shoulder strap theme! I love the colour combination of this blue tartan and the blue taffeta, so I wanted to get them together in a cocktail dress. The left side panels of this fitted dress were done in tartan and the rest blue, the dress is lined and zips up the back. I took the shoulder strap to the absolute extreme and extended it right down the front and the back.
The strap is made in the black Nottingham lace that I have used previously. I ran two strips over the shoulder and intended to sew them together over the shoulder, but I got messing about with it, as you do (!), and couldn’t decide whether to have the two straps up, down, together or separate!
So, I left them separate, I don’t want to deprive you of your play! LOL!
The dress wasn’t glitzy enough as it was so I sewed some micro sized, petrol coloured sequins over the lace just for some added sparkle.
Now on to the shoes. Blue shoes are not the easiest thing in the word to find, especially when I want MY blue! So time to make my own! The shoe bases, or soles are taken from a pair of Tonner basic sandals. The ribbons and insole are very easy to remove giving me a nice…pink…sole to work with. Well, we can’t have that for a start! These shoe soles are actually very handy to have around, don’t throw away the torn out insole though, use it to draw round and create your own!
I painted my soles blue using ordinary little pots of enamel paint, mixed to the right colour.
Covered the insole in my blue taffeta and made a shoe strap from the black lace. Then I have sewn the tiny sequins across the front.
The strap is made in the black Nottingham lace that I have used previously. I ran two strips over the shoulder and intended to sew them together over the shoulder, but I got messing about with it, as you do (!), and couldn’t decide whether to have the two straps up, down, together or separate!
So, I left them separate, I don’t want to deprive you of your play! LOL!
The dress wasn’t glitzy enough as it was so I sewed some micro sized, petrol coloured sequins over the lace just for some added sparkle.
Now on to the shoes. Blue shoes are not the easiest thing in the word to find, especially when I want MY blue! So time to make my own! The shoe bases, or soles are taken from a pair of Tonner basic sandals. The ribbons and insole are very easy to remove giving me a nice…pink…sole to work with. Well, we can’t have that for a start! These shoe soles are actually very handy to have around, don’t throw away the torn out insole though, use it to draw round and create your own!
I painted my soles blue using ordinary little pots of enamel paint, mixed to the right colour.
Covered the insole in my blue taffeta and made a shoe strap from the black lace. Then I have sewn the tiny sequins across the front.
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