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After coming back from my vacation I felt that my every day wardrobe needs refreshing. But from thinking to doing something about it – it’s a long way! I had the floral pattern fabric for a few years now, and the cream fabric I had purchased around the same time thinking to combine these two (both are cotton mix). Deciding on a design is always the hardest part. The premise was to make something simple but somehow that never quite comes true:)) For years I just left these fabrics aside because I didn’t get any inspiration for that simple design that is complicated enough to please me:)) I started working on this “tunic-like top” with something completely different in mind, but once you start eating you have to keep chewing, so I had to make it work. Most of my designs imply asymmetry – that’s not news anymore, is it?:)) That’s what makes it click for me and I feel my best creations will always have an asymmetrical cut or detail. Other features of this top: a small cream bow on one shoulder, sleeves with ties and slits on each side. The treatment of the cream fabric is similar up to a point to what happens to my wrinkled necklaces and definitely inspired from that. In a way I have created a new fabric by shirring, ironing, embroidering, applique-ing and double layering. It was fun, it was exciting, and I hope to use “this kind of fabric” again.
Also on my blog.
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cotton mix
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Jan 25, 2013, 09.44 PMby LimeSoda
Innovative and striking but I believe it’d be lovelier without the sleeves. Well done and excellent job quilting!
Jan 12, 2013, 03.13 PMby fashionfreek
Very nice Magdamagda…nice to have you back:-D
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Jan 12, 2013, 06.04 PMby magdamagda
Thank you… trying to keep busy:)
Jan 11, 2013, 10.06 PMby libra-s
Absolutely pretty! And welcome back!
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Jan 12, 2013, 04.45 AMby magdamagda
Thank you :) Good to be back!
Jan 11, 2013, 11.49 AMby agarog
What a combination of fabrics! I ’m impressed. Spring is coming :)
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Jan 11, 2013, 02.07 PMby magdamagda
Thanks! I’m in South India and it’s summer all year round, I wore this a couple of times already.
Jan 11, 2013, 10.27 AMby vasea
I like that you have ideas and that you enjoy hard-working on clothes.
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Jan 11, 2013, 02.06 PMby magdamagda
It’s true, those two go hand in hand. When do we see a new Vasi Project?:D
Jan 10, 2013, 09.15 PMby barmaglot
Wow! that’s a great work!
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Jan 11, 2013, 05.29 AMby magdamagda
Thanks so much;)
Jan 10, 2013, 08.53 PMby byrdiesews
This is really cute! The fabrics could have gone “grandma” style really quickly but you used just the right design and it looks great!
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Jan 11, 2013, 05.28 AMby magdamagda
Thanks, I hope I pulled it off!
Jan 10, 2013, 07.10 PMby misumihaela
lovely!
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Jan 11, 2013, 05.25 AMby magdamagda
mersi:)
Jan 10, 2013, 07.10 PMby Mary Athey
Love the combination of fabrics. Its a lovely top.x
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Jan 11, 2013, 05.25 AMby magdamagda
Thank you Mary!
Jan 10, 2013, 06.53 PMby Ricardo Abreu
It looks so innocent, I love it
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Jan 11, 2013, 05.25 AMby magdamagda
Oh yes:) I feel like a good girl in it:)