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Electric Blue Jewelled Bug Necklace, Liberty of London
Price £175.00
Electric Blue Jewelled Bug Necklace.
Isn’t this just divine?View the full Liberty of London jewellery coll
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Had a lot of success with thrift shopping recently. I think I have enough now of the basics for my summer 2009 wardrobe. Here are my nine easy pieces, turquoise version, all thrifted! Starting with Jendi handbag BNWOT which looks great with the Mysize skirt in linen with tulle and lace edging and the Basler Jacket from my suit…see below.
This skirt by Elizabeth is silk and simply adorable …it also works with the Basler jacket
here is the skirt without the jacket, am going to make some silk camis to wear with it.
Wonderful Marina Rinaldi knee length linen jacket and pants
the rest of my Basler of Germany silk and linen mix suit and lastly an artisan glass choker, simply gorgeous.
Can’t wait for summer!
Lisa Whatmough is the very talented designer behind Squint, a UK based furniture shop which makes patchwork furniture to order and also has some “off the peg”. Lisa’s first collection was snapped up by Liberty of London in Fashion Week 2005 and she has not looked back since! [See below for the link to the interview with her.]
photo courtesy of Dacia Ray on flickr
Each order takes up to 12 weeks to complete and the work is to an exacting standard. I love the lushness and sheer sumptiousness of the pieces.
photo courtesy of Sterin on flickr
The colours are whatever you can imagine. They are not all loud and colourful some are quite muted and others are within one colour family but all are richly textured and very tactile.
Photo courtesy of Carla Andrea on flickr
I adore these pieces because this is what I like to do with my upholstery throws for winter, use the finest textiles in small amounts and be entranced at the luxuriousness, the sheer decadence of one special piece…that is all it takes.
photo courtesy of cacauzitta on flickr
How to get this look at home …..if a chair is too expensive then a cushion or a throw by moi would work just as well and if you have the money then have a footstool or a chair made……your whole room can be based around it.
Photo courtesy lbv5000 on flickr
mydeco.com has an excellent post here about how you can get the look for yourselves by finding good pieces of furniture at thrift shops etc. Annie of mydeco.com wrote a very interesting piece for the Independent in the UK about craft and the credit crunch.
Photo courtesy of cat30 on flickr
I like the idea of patchwork curtains in this style…and am going to do some door curtains for our home for winter as it is so cold with this open plan living which is so prevalent in Australia….will throw in a few cushions in toning shades and textures and I am thinking our whole flat will look a lot warmer than it does now.
Photo courtesy of cat30 on flickr
Keep tuned for my adventures with my charity shop finds…one fabulous Laura Ashley chair and another stunning chair…am going to have a go at making a cover for them in my own patchwork style.
Here is a wonderful interview with Lisa Whatmough which is on mydeco.com. Some of her work is available for sale on that site as well as other really individualistic pieces by craftspersons in the UK…I think only in the UK
Some other design blogs which have featured her work are below:
This is my 199th blog post and I thought it was apt to show you what is being done at such a level by such a talented artisan/designer…this is what my blog is all about so am excited to bring you this post. Stay tuned for big 200
As I did not have time to cut out the fabrics last week I started doing that today, after ironing them with a hot steamy iron as Aneela suggested. Then you are supposed to cut your strips of fabric into two and a half inch strips with your rotary cutter. Remember I am using different sized fabric samples so that isn’t applicable to me, unfortunately.
Now is the time to confess that I do not have any fancy quilting implements. I do not have any cutting mats or rotary cutters so this half hexagon cutting is going to be done the old way! And will take a huge amount of time I should think!
You might wonder if I am adverse to technology …I am not at all it is just that we live in a tiny flat which does not have a dining room. We do have a dropleaf table but that is quite hard for me to use as the leaves are solid oak and weigh a ton. I have various collapsible tables and ultimately would like to get some sort of built in cutting station with cupboards etc to hold all my junk.
I do however sew through most nights as I have insomnia so need to work in our lounge room without taking it over too much. The built in would be better in there actually. I have some photos and will be scan then up to show you what I mean at some stage!
Okay so you really need to go to Aneela’s blog to see what you are really supposed to do using all the modern gadgets, it will be much easier but there may be the odd person and I do mean odd…sorry ….and the way I am doing it they will not need to go out and buy the latest gadgets. Pins, scissors and computer or scrap booking paper works for this quite well too.
When you do go to Aneela’s blog she will have links to show you what to do layout wise so that minimal cutting is needed, it is a fantastically easy way to do this, brilliantly devised I must say. On Ruth’s flickr as well you can see the graphics for what I mean…most impressive.
Actually I think she might let me import them here…will toddle off and ask her now after I cut out as many half hexies as my sanity will allow. Photos will be uploaded later, you will have to use your imagination for now. Aneela has cut out over 700 so you get what I am saying I think, yes I am nuts but I love it so its okay!
Update: Ruth said it was fine to use the graphic as you can see below in the comments…thanks Ruth and I went and had my scissors sharpened and I was able to cut through ten pieces of fabric at once…fabulous!
