Wahoo! I'm finally getting around to posting my favorite piece from the Winterstruck Collection. Small confession. I have absolutely zero problems starting and finishing projects. What I really struggle with is actually getting said projects onto the blog. I'm pleased as punch I persevered for this one. In case you missed it, you can see the tutorial for my Anthro look-alike Amour sweater right here.
I love cozy wool. Like love, love, love it, so I used a drapey wool for this design rather than the slub-satin plaid fabric I'd originally found. It was not awesome... The result was a rather fabulous, weighty version of the Winter Festival midi circle skirt. I've generally kept to fitted shapes when using heavy fabric and tried a pencil skirt design first. It was just too normal and expected. Blech. This is so much better, yeah?
Dollar Tree skirt (for real) | Target plaid top | LOFT sweatshirt
Land's End Jacket | GAP jacket | Claire's head-wrap
On Thanskgiving...
"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me.
I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry.
But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
And Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle."
It's always so fun to look at all the pieces of a project together. It helps me see if the elements are cohesive as a group. Thought you might like to see a part of my design process for this collection. NOW.
On to SPRING!!
YOUR TURN | Which design would you choose to buy first? Second?
