Now that's weird.
I went out looking for something sweet, girly perhaps, even, maybe a hint of pink, or cute. Which I'm finding kind of hard actually, to the point where I'm struggling a little bit, but that's OK, because technically I have banned cute pink stuff. Sort of. For now. So the orange thing. I actually like orange. A lot. Which will surprise a lot of people, because orange never features in anything I do or have. I am particular about my oranges. Deep, intense, rust, burnt pumpkin oranges are my favourite. Something with warmth, and saturation. Light oranges don't normally do it for me, and peaches and apricots - forget it.
So kind of weird then that this really jumped at me and said Make Me Into Pair Of Pants For Your Baby Right Now. It started with the orange and red striped t-shirt at the back - a Katvig piece. Now I profess to love anything scandinavian, and grew up in Marimekko fabrics and clothes and stripey t-shirts. And this t-shirt is gorgeous. And the orange thing kind of escalated from there. Till walking into a material shop I put down the grey blanket fleece, and picked this seer sucker orange red and green striped fabric up instead. It has apricot in it. And peach. And yellow. But it does have grey in it as well, so all is not lost.
And promptly made a pair of pants for Petite 6.5st out of it - same pattern as before (pattern book here), but without the elastic to the legs. And somewhere - probably with the cream blanket material which is still missing - is a muslin pattern all cut out to be a top to go with it.
I know exactly what you mean with the stripes and the saturated colours. Having grown up in Scandinavia, I hated it during my early twenties. But it stuck in my mind and resurfaced again. I'm forever searching for the art printed fabrics my mother sewed my dresses from. And I can't get enough of the Marimekko red/pink(!)/orange combos.
Posted by: Strikkelise | July 15, 2006 at 08:19 PM
Beth's favourite colour has always been orange. And I am so proud of her for having the courage of her convictions and maintaining the orange love through the kinder years of "pink girls". When she was little (well she is still is, but we're talking two-ish) she couldn't say orange, so for ages it was "ondinge". Even now I find myself saying ondinge. So I love your ondinge stripe fabric. Perhaps ondinge will be petite 6.5st favourite colour too? Who needs pink?
Posted by: Jo | July 15, 2006 at 10:30 PM
Nice! Orange is my favorite, and the same kinds you like. I had a swap partner recently who hated it, and it was almost impossible for me to pick things up that had no orange in them. It made me realize how much a part of my ideology that deep rusty orange really is.
I also just made a pair of seersucker striped pants:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/astralpup/177273934/
Posted by: larissa | July 17, 2006 at 12:50 AM