Its Like Bridal Asda

I kid you not! I actually overheard somebody using this phrase in the street in St Albans. I don't think they looked as if they were about to get married , so I can only assume that this is a comment about fashion darling. Pretentious place that it is, it really is worthwhile wandering around the streets of St Albans looking nonchalant and listening in to the conversation of others.

Speaking of fashion, I'm very conscious that very few of my clothes fit. I know I'm always moaning, but really, I can't shift the baby weight. So, I've been going round and round and round the shops to try to find some decent, reasonably prices, appropriate clothes. I haven't found anything. There just isn't anything in my size, price-range and appropriate for a mum of 2. Anything that isn't a luminous coloured ra-ra skirt, a micro- dress, frumpy beyond all words or excessively priced, is generally found in a supermarket. I'm not sure about the conditions in which most of this stuff is made and that puts me off buying it. Therefore I am stuck in a fashion rut. I mainly wear the same dress (one which I last wore when I was five months pregnant with baby number one), a pair of Gap jeans and a selection of tight T-shirt tops.

I have taken matters into my own hands. From now on, the majority of stuff I wear is going to be manufactured by own hands using material sourced at St Albans market for approximately £2- £3 per metre. The image above is what I am working on at the moment, I haven't done any machining yet, that's for tonight. However, I designed, tailored and cut my own pattern for this. The material was £2 and so far I have spent about an hour, from conception, working on it. When I actually machine it all together I'll model it and post some other pictures. If anyone knows how to attach PDF files in blogger I can do a quick sketch of the pattern and PDF that up here.

I also have a wedding coming up at the weekend and I am minded to make a dress for that. As I have some very very nice fabric, I thought I would try to find a pattern, in case it all goes wrong. In doing so, I have found this brilliant website Burda Style. It has lots of ideas, tips and perhaps more usefully downloadable dress-making patterns. Some of these are even free, so I can see that its a resource I will be using a lot.

Its Like Bridal Asda