Stitch and bitch #7. Hanging by a thread

I hope to do mine part time - alongside my full time work. Which will be a challenge!

Thanks @NutellaEllaElla it has been hard getting back into study again, especially with family life. Some of the essays have broken me…but I’m out the other side now.

@TragicMuse yey, we’ll done for applying. I was the same. Absolutely petrified on whether I’d be accepted…and mine is part time too, which has helped. You will love it.

the course is lovely though…but I’m on the south coast, not the big cold city.

my reward when I submit my dissertation will be to make a dress I’ve had in mind for ages. That is why I have to sit on my hands and enjoy all your wonderful sewing projects.

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Does anyone here have problems working out what colours suit them? I find it reasonably straightforward with shop bought clothes, as I can obviously try them on. It’s just so much harder with online fabric purchases.

I’ve looked at all that colour season stuff, but I don’t really seem to fit neatly into any of the categories.

Anyway just pondering out loud after receiving my latest fabric purchase, which was definitely a safe choice. I’d just like to be a bit more adventurous I guess.

It’s possible I’m overthinking this…😂

I have quite useful friends for colour. I'm pretty good with colour in an artistic sense, making quilts, home decorating and crochet and stuff, but haven't been all that great at understanding what I should wear. The sort of colours that I absolutely love and use a lot (like misty blue-greys, eau de nil, peacock blue, olive green) are not the colours that suit my skin tone. One friend very firmly told me to stop wearing blue tones and she was right. So my friends know to say if I wear something that suits me but also to say if it's not right for me and I won't take offence. What I've ended up with is a lot of warm colours that are not too bright nor pastel, but deep and muted. Pinks (but not the cold pinks), brick, burgundy, plum, reds (but not scarlet). I wear them with black, graphite grey, cream, taupe, denim (jeans only) etc but generally don't have neutrals next to my face. On the plus side pretty much everything in my wardrobe goes with everything else, on the down side I see so many beautiful colours in the shops that I know I can't wear but want to buy anyway.

It's taken me a long time to get to this and it probably would have been useful to have made more of an effort to have understood in my 20s/30s why certain fashions would never work for me. It would have saved a lot of wasted money.

I did an online colour analysis which places me in the cool winter area. Just as well really with all my turquoise and teal fabric.

I know I can’t wear yellow by consulting a mirror

You can wear those colours, just not next to your face. I'm cool winter too, but the colours that suit me have changed since I have gone grey. I used to look great in various greys and black, but now black makes me look dead and so I generally wear navy instead. But I can wear black trousers. I have never suited pastels. Yellow is a hell no although I wish I could wear mustard - I should try mustard trousers first and see how it looks.

Another cool-ing winter. I’m getting less and less able to wear the jewel tones of my yoof.

I keep buying green and it does nothing for me. Ok with a deep but not too intense emerald or bottle green (and all over teal) but the fresh green I’m wearing today just makes me look old and pink!

I don’t think it’s any coincidence that soft peachy toned fabric keeps ending up in sales. It doesn’t help that it reads as flesh toned on so many of us 😂

That’s interesting that you can’t wear black since going grey@dubyalass. My wardrobe is probably 90% black and I’ve never thought about whether it still works for me now I have a head full of silver rather than black hair. When I was younger it was all about monochrome with red accents, now I’ve switched the red for aqua colours. I picked up some orangey floral lawn for a sundress and I know it doesn’t suit me but I still love it

I'm going the other way @Jins @PickAChew ! I look much better in jewel tones, they really bring me to life. I love a bright turquoise or magenta, and I can pull off a deep red if it's on the blue side of the spectrum. Purple works better for me now but it needs to be a deep one; mauve is hideous. Grass green is hell no but deep forest green (or even khaki, weirdly) are OK. That said, I'm sporting a tan at the moment so that's probably why khaki is ok; if I wore it in the depths of winter I'd look awful.

I used to live in head to toe black and had almost black hair (how I wish I'd appreciated it at the time!) but now I need some sort of jewellery or scarf to add warmth to my skin tone.

Anywhere local to me?! South coast?

I saw a lady out today wearing a lovely maxi dress in horizontal orange lemon and cream stripes. Looked much better than it sounds! I studied from a distance. Empire line, shoulders wide enough to cover straps and a stretch fabric.

I saw a woman in a gorgeous green shirt dress at the weekend and wanted to ask her where it was from, but just at that point her dog decided to take a dump so I walked past. Oh well.

I’ve googled and think it was like this - but she was very tall and it looked ankle length on her. She looked very elegant in an effortless way, whilst I was red faced and sweaty and my linen dress had crumpled into mess in the heat at Hampton court palace!

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Lots of magenta, @dubyalass - I'll wear that until I'm dead! I recently bought 4m of raspberry pink viscose linen to make a faux jumpsuit (not a real one because I'm not into undressing to wee once a hour!)

£40 for an in person pattern drafting class is a steal when you consider the price of patterns @NutellaEllaElla

I'm not even going to consider pattern drafting u til my shape settles down. Over 3 years post menopause and my weight has barely changed in a year but my proportions are changing constantly.

Haha I also recently bought some raspberry viscose, although not linen. Still not decided what to make it into.

Pattern drafting course sounds great NutellaEllaElla.

I’m glad it’s not just me who’s having some difficulties working out which colours work best. I’ve done so many of those online colour season quiz things, but never got very far. On paper I fit the description of cool toned, but I don’t think I suit the recommended colours for that at all. Think I’m condemned to a life of buying fabric and hoping for the best 😂

@NutellaEllaElla £40 for a class is a bargain. I’ve been thinking more and more about making a block and trying to make my own patterns from that to hopefully avoid and the fitting messing around I end up doing.

@CrimsonAlligator I have a similar problem, the online things give me results that I know don’t work in real life. Maybe it’s a lighting issue 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ll just have to stick with the things I think work - I’m on holiday right now and realised everything I’ve packed is blue/green/grey or cream.

Wow @NutellaEllaElla what an amazing price for your course!!! when do you start?

I had a look at the London week long draping course…sigh! That would be heaven!