Tablecloth dress

Following the highly successful fish shirt project, I was feeling good about the potential of the whole sew-your-own-clothes thing and signed up for a year of Closet Core membership.

I like their patterns and the fact they give you one new one per month which takes decision paralysis out of the equation (this is often a problem). They provide lots of support, and the price was good. I'm already very happy about signing up.

I thought I'd better try one of their simpler patterns for the practice moreso than wanting to wear the end product. I chose the Quartz dress, which is very straightforward.

This whole tangent has also given me reason to look at fabric shops other than Spotlight, which isn't something I'd really done before. I walked into a shop with one thing in mind, but then got completely distracted by lobsters. Lobsters, bananas, and avocados. And baguettes.

I've been crustacean-focused for a little while now. My current favourite earrings are crabs. I look at photos of crabs wearing sponges as hats. So I really had to get this fabric, only later realising it was probably intended as a tablecloth rather than clothing.

Surprisingly, it turned out pretty good! Maybe I actually want to wear a tablecloth after all. What I'm finding is particularly great about home-made clothes is that they actually fit. Who could have foreseen this?

I'm well progressed planning my next item—a jacket—which I expect may take me to the limits of my dinky little sewing machine's capabilities.