When I DID get out yesterday….

… I managed to get to Gardams to put some money on my fabric… but then I saw that they had Vogue patterns at “Buy one, get 2 free.”

Well, what’s a gal to do?

I had to have this one - I hated it at first glance, but was compelled to keep going back to it every time I flicked through the pattern book. It’s grown on me…

I’m not grading it up - it’s one that will be made when I lose enough inches to get into the size available. Koos van den Akker has some far-out designs. [please click to see the bigger image - as intriguing as those harlequin diamonds look on the top , in reality they're only stripes. Still fabulous - but is ANYTHING as fabulous as harlequin diamonds?]

As Mark Lipinski once pointed out - when you buy [quiltingfabric] you’re not just buying the tangible material - you’re buying the DREAM of that quilt, your hopes and desires. So these patterns are me in my new shape -being artily outrageous in my clothes instead of hiding in fat-chick dowdiness.

Check this one out - I dare you to mess with THIS chick! I was going to make the shorter version of the top with the sedate bias skirt, but then I thought - well, honey, if you’re gonna do it, go BIG!

(In this I am much inspired by an incredibly fabulous woman at Toowoomba Quilters, who wears the most intriguing clothes - while juggling a husband, two small kids, a business, and being the club’s librarian! I have to go lie down just THINKING about her busy life.)

But it’s not all pie-in-the-sky: This pattern I will be making NOW. (Well, soonish.) In fact, once I lose weight I will have to buy the pattern in a smaller size. (Yeah, baby, that’s right - a SMALLER SIZE!!)

Just ignore that dowdy picture - that woman was NOT fitted for those jeans - ugh! I’ve had a read through this pattern and it includes instructions on altering the jeans for those with a sway back (and I can’t tell you how WONDERFUL it will be not to have that gap where the wind whistles down me troosers!).

I plan to make these in fabulous outrageous fabrics… stuff the boring denim, I’ll be in “Glorious Technicolour, Breathtaking Cinemascope and Stereophonic Soooooooooooooound!”*

Yep, if it wasn’t for fear of getting sued, I reckon that could be my new motto. “Glorious Technicolour, Breathtaking Cinemascope and Stereophonic Soooooooooooooound!”

* from “Silk Stockings” ( a musical remake of “Ninotchka”) - with Fred Astaire and Janie Paige hamming it up with that song - you’ve got to see it! Oh, and see Ninotchka, too, if you ever get a chance - Garbo is, as always, DIVINE.)

BUGGER ! How did it get so late? I’m off to BED!