Dress: DIY from Japanese Hanabi Fabric & remixed Colette Macaron Pattern
Shoes: Wittner
Happy New Year folks! I hope you’ve all had the chance to take some time off to rest and recuperate, and to catch up with friends and family.
A lot happened in 2015 – some of it wonderful, some of it less so – but reflecting back it was a year of positive change for all aspects of my life: work, love, family and home. I’m excited to see what 2016 will bring.
I quite like New Year’s – I know it’s really just another day in the calendar, but it feels like a chance to shake the dust of the past year off and start the new one with fresh hopes and dreams. Or maybe it’s just that I really like fireworks.
I thought this was a perfect New Year’s dress, because of the divine fireworks print. I found the fabric – which is a lovely textured Japanese cotton – on Etsy, and bought several yards without any particular sewing project in mind.
In the end I took my dusty old Colette Macaron pattern (last seen in 2012!) and tweaked it a bit. I kept the contrast shoulders, but straightened the sweetheart bodice, and I totally subbed out the tulip skirt for my own rip-off pattern of Modcloth’s Breathtaking Tiger Lillies skirt. Plus pockets.
So here’s to fireworks and frocks, to friends and family, to 2016, and here’s to you.
Have a great new year.
Happy New Year to you dear Lilli! Thanks for the endless inspiration. Here’s to more fireworks and frock in all our futures!
Here here, Kelly! I’ll drink to that!
Happy new year to you. And the dress is amazing, one of my favourites.
Aw, thanks Kim! 🙂 Hope you’re enjoying Melbourne!
What a gorgeous dress, you’re so talented! Happy New Year x
Thank you, Rai! Practice makes perfect (or practice makes wearable, at least!)
Happy new year! May all of 2016 be wonderful for you and yours.
Thanks Anna – right back at you!
That’s lovely! I love the way you have straightened the sweetheart neckline and the firework print fabric is great. A very Happy 2016 to you! 🙂
Thanks so much, Caroline. The fabric’s just so lovely, I really wanted to make something that did it justice!
Here’s to a wonderful 2016 and a year filled with amazing blog title puns. ((((hugs)))) thank you for always being so kind to me.
My absolute pleasure, lovely lady. I hope 2016 is a great one for you 🙂
Gorgeous dress! I love the fuller skirt with the macaron bodice
Thanks Suzy! Me too. I had the extra fabric, so I thought “why not?” 🙂
Happy New Year to you, too, Lilli 🙂
The frock is beautiful and the fabric is gorgeous. Good thinking about changing the sweetheart neckline, love the dress !!!
Thanks Una, I thought the sweetheart neckline was just a bit too cutesy for the fabric!
I have followed your blog for some time…this dress is my favorite!! You look so pretty, and I love the length and style of your hair! I am 67, yet I ‘steal’ ideas from you and they look great!
Thank you, Peggy Joan! That’s so lovely to hear 🙂