I haven't been doing as much work for Janey as I normally do these past few weeks, Christmas is my excuse! 


 I have still been picking up vintage here and there though and for some reason shirts seem to have been coming my way. 


 These two chiffon shirts have the most gorgeous Peter Pan collars.

They remind me of a blouse my Grandma is wearing in a photograph that I have of her. She tells me that it was a lemon colour. I would utterly love to find one exactly like it. 

I also met a lovely lady who used to have a boutique in the 70's, she still had lots of the clothes she used to sell and sold some of them to me. Amongst these were lots of shirts! Here are a few of my favourites. 

I also acquired some sky blue chiffon and some beautiful vintage yellow interior fabric with bouquets of flowers randomly printed on. I drew up a design for a dress combining the two fabrics and drafted a pattern. Now I've uploaded it onto here its an incentive to get it sewn up! Hopefully if it works I can re-use the pattern with more stunning fabrics. 

Just keep sewing sewing sewing....

 I realise I am starting a trend of opening posts with twitterings (is that a word?) about the weather, which is very British of me, so I shall skip the comment about the first snow of the season and get straight to it.

I spent most of my weekend altering re-works and sewing up re-mades. 
 A few Re-works in the form of high waisted flippy mini skirts to add to the ridiculous amount I have sewn up already.
 (Please ignore how badly some of these need ironing!)

And a few midi and maxi skirts that could also be worn as dresses with a waistbelt. 

Re-mades, simple mini waisted dresses, again I think these always look best with a waistbelt, and a maxi which is floor length, I intend to make another of these in the same fabric with black lace in the back. (I have made a mini version with a lace back.)

 Working in fabric buying, print sourcing and design always inspires me to look out for the quirkiest of colourful vintage fabrics and prints, I often think a simple cut in a beautiful fabric is all you need, over design is overkill so I let the fabrics speak for themselves.

  This one is vintage Liberty  

As usual there is a bit of a floral theme, probably due to an afternoon sometime last week spent researching trend and colour predictions and swotting up on the latest designer collections, I have for the third/fourth/fifth time fallen in love with Ashish Gupta's S/S12 collection. Being a girl that pays great attention to detail I couldn't help but get excited over the use of glitter, clashing florals and boots filled with flowers! 

And just 1 more thing, Dolce & Gabbana: Onions, Aubergines, courgettes and carrots! You either love it, or hate it. Janey hearts. 

    If you hate it at first glance you may find it grows on you...