Bird Badge and Skirt

Years ago I saw a beautiful silk skirt in an op shop which (alas) was too small. I was stoked to find this lovely thing at the Lost and Found Market on Smith St in Collingwood. It feels beautifully light, as though you could fly away...

Because it was too long, I decided to harvest a bit of the length to make a badge. Originally I had decided to make a flower, but once I'd hemmed and over-locked the skirt, there were only scraps left. So I sewed them together in a sort of patchwork with a piece of vinyl and some buttons for eyes.

The finished one has a maroon button for an eye. Y'all will have to use your imagination...

Kimono off-cut cardigan

 This cardigan was inspired by the film 'Enchanted April'. I was watching it on a horrible stormy while I was home sick with a very bad virusey flu thing. The women looked so beautiful and elegant lounging around in the Italian sun in their 1920's kimonos. So I tried to recapture a bit of that with a slightly strangled Cotton On cardigan and a kimono offcut from the Kazari Warehouse in Richmond.

Hmmm, really should have ironed it...

Simply sow kimono silk along the edges of the collar and inner swing.

It's not something that I would ever buy or make from scratch and it's not really 'my' colour. However sometimes you've just got to experiment with what you have.