I really should just stop looking at clothes altogether! I saw this beauty on Miss Selfridge’s website today :

Ohhhh I want iiiiit. It’s £25 sodding pounds though, and I refuse to pay that much for that little fabric! I’ve been searching in vain for similar lace, and the one I liked the most was this on ebay :

It’s not quite the same… and I’m not sure if I’ll find jersey fabric the same colour, so I might do the ruffle in the same lace fabric? If I’m buying a metre, I may as well use it after all! I checked in my local fabric shop today, and lace was selling for about 14.95 euros a metre… which still ends up cheaper than the top itself, but there wasn’t really anything that took my fancy.

As for what I’d wear it with… I am certainly not comfortable with wearing it belly out, so I was thinking of making some sort of black shift dress to go underneath, fairly body-con… I have to figure that out, as well as how to make the actual pattern!

Any ideas or suggestions out there as to how I can achieve this top? I think I have a pattern in mind that could be adjusted, but I’m not sure as of yet.

As for current projects, my skirt is being sewed as I type… well, not really, because I’m typing, ha! Oh, how I wish for a sewing pixie to do these things for me… I did cut out the McCalls pattern last night :

Pun the bodice parts on Sally for tidiness’ sake! Looks pretty crap like that though eh? Can’t wait until it’s done, I hope it comes out well. Bit concerned about the sizing, but I measured myself and it should be correct! … aaand I just noticed my washing visible in the background hahaha