The Festive Frock

It was the annual Kitschy Coo Christmas party on Saturday (this basically just means me and Friend Sarah hit the town), and I rustled up a festive frock shortly before / during / after I was supposed to meet her. It took me less than an hour, but I was still late. It's a red ponte knit using my cowl neck pattern but with a normal neckline. It has super-long sleeves in my futile effort to keep my wrists and hands warm.

I had every intention of being a proper blogger and getting pictures early on at the picturesque Christmas market, but it was crowded and freezing so I pulled my typical headless bathroom shots near the end of the night. I am nothing if not classy.

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Retro boom box cowl

After a couple more tweaks, I'm happy enough with the adult cowl pattern now to use proper precious hoarded fabric. I made this one with my retro boom box french terry fabric. Look familiar?


Here's tiny Jamie sporting the very same!


I like the hip length muchly.


The collar was made a bit higher, but rather than self-folded it was lined with black jersey so you can see the contrast when folded down.


But I think I like it more folded up. This isn't the fabric I want to use so much it hurts though, so does anyone have any suggestions before I take a deep breath and cut it?!

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Trinny and Susannah: 1 Me: Nil

Buoyed by your encouragement to wear them high and proud when I lamented the high neck / big bosom dichotomy, I made myself a cowl tunic last night. I didn't fall in love with it immediately, because Good God, just look at that:

But it grew on me, and I'm wearing it today. But you can't make me take my jacket off.

Thinking that I could *cough* reduce their prominence *cough* will some changes to the pattern (namely lowering the neck a bit and widening the body so it's not as tight), onto version two. The neck is better methinks. But the body? Urgh. Too shapeless. I think I will shorten it to hip height to balance it out and I can still wear it as an underlayer.

And if you're wondering where my head has gone, at some point without noticing I turned into Nosferatu. So a good day all round.

NB. One thing that has completely delighted me, however, is that the author of Design-It-Yourself Clothes has officially validated The Cool Girl's Club by commenting on my blog. Seriously. Go look for yourselves.

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