Lillian of the Lake

I took the Pea and a friend each over to Bendigo yesterday to go and see ‘The Golden Age of Couture’, an exhibition of clothes from WWII up to the fifties at the Bendigo Art Gallery. 

It was stunning.  The work in some of the embroidered gowns was just breathtaking.  Anyone interested in design generally and fashion/dressmaking/cloth and needle would love it.

Whilst we were in Bendigo we visited the lovely Attic Crafts.  I came home with a couple of patterns, and some lovely pink, red and white co-ordinated fabric, mostly from Moda’s Candy Kisses range.  I have about three metres of fabric altogether.  There’s something about the combination of pink and red that I love.  It’s the kind of combination that traditionally I would have stayed right away from.  But these fabrics are delicious.  What to make?  I think I’d like to combine them with some embroidered panels, not strictly redwork but something like that. 

They will have to sit in ‘ideas fermenting’ pile for now…