fabric

One of my favourite fabric stores is closing, really this time.
Remnant Warehouse in Prahran (Melbourne) will close on the 31st March, after being there for 40 years. It is a fav. as it is a good place to buy base fabrics, like denim, interlock and plain woven cotton at good prices. I bought these stretch cottons, which I have not exactly decided what to make with yet.
The top one I dyed myself on the stove, it was the blue colour, but as you can see it did not quite come out right in one corner, but the rest is fairly even.

I have added some more items to my Etsy shop but nothing to 5trillion as yet!
The problem still being that I cannot get the photos to look as I want them to. Will have to get a body in them, that is for sure. Here is what I have been working on for 5trillion, anyway.

dressmaking again

I have not disappeared off the face of the earth; I have been dressmaking. Not a lot of time to make my own things while doing this. But now I am back making my own creations, so I hope to make a few updates to 5trillion.com soon.
This blue dress was made for a bridesmaid. I was shown a top that they (bride and bridesmaid) liked and wanted me to make a dress using the same design. The fabric was a little different and I had to sew the pattern into it by hand. I did this just by gathering up puckers in the dress and sewing seed beads on in a cluster. The photo doesn't really do it justice, it looked better in real life.