it's dress time!

it happened by accident - we were just going for a walk this morning, honest. that just happened to be by emporio armani - a shop on sydney rd which offers designer fabrics - which just happened to be closing down. so, we bought some chocolate brown stretch jersey, and popped across the road to spotlight's pattern sale to pick up a DKNY dress pattern - vogue 2091. a little holiday sewing at the old's haus when there's not much else to do. here's hoping it turns out.

in other dress news, the lily chin dress (knitted from cherry trees hill's "glimmer" purchased from chezcas direct and on ebay) is complete. we weren't too happy with the armholes/sideseam of the top, but a little crochet seaming down the sides went a long way to fixing the problem.

here's the back in action (choose a full size image):

getting there:

and the final:

to further add to the dress madness, we've finally found the yarn that'll work in the debbie new dress - it's a weird sort of boucle from bendigo woollen mills which we originally had issues of it being like steel wool. while in geelong during the fibre forum week, we got the chance to purchase a small ball and try it out. while not exactly soft as a kitten, it's fine. failing the dress, the boucle would make an awesome 60's style chanel suit. we felt a little silly calling bendy and asking for a few kilometres of the yarn...
big balls (click to enlarge):

methinks a start of the bendy dress may be in order when it starts coolin' down in melbs (march - in time for june/july wearing, perhaps...).

but that's not all...there's also the lily chin crochet dress from interweave. we crocheted a sample:

we're in a bit of a mess. obviously we love the colour above. it's one of those subtle as a sledgehammer pinks. thing is - do we really want a whole crocheted pink dress? the other option is black - there are currently 3 black dresses in our wardrobe. we'll take a trip to the yarn barn early next year and sort it out. as for the hooks, a little spree was in order. never shall we be at a loss for a hook again, thanks to the crochetmaster and susan bates's crystalites.