Friday, January 29, 2010

No Pink & Red

BurdaStyle is having the Pink & Red challenge.  I thought about entering when it was first announced, but the 20-day notice is too short for me, since I sew only on the weekends.  This is what I was going to make...


... which is inspired by this gorgeous Trina Turk Algonquin dress (looooove the design but not so much the price):


I will still make this dress in different colors (not too crazy about pink-and-red combo anyway), and most likely without the big lace. Any suggestions on color combo, anybody?  What should I put on that curvy style line... Top-stitch?  Bias strip?  Some kind of small lace? 

6 comments:

  1. I hear you. The 20-day notice is far too short, and then why would I want to sew anything in pink and red? I also decided not to enter. The dress you want to make will probably look nice in different colors.

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  2. Hahaha I made a pink and red dress 2 years ago so I'm going to enter that if I can convince my boyfriend to take some photos of me today. But no way would I be entering if I had to make something new!

    Meanwhile, ADORE that design! I think you should find some large print pink and red fabric do some APPLIQUE along the curve! Would be wonderful.

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  3. That is an amazing design.

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  4. good luck on making the dress! i agree, pink and red combination is a bit crazy (at least for me).

    btw, you can see the details of shoulder part of my dress in my flickr page! http://www.flickr.com/photos/vivatveritas/

    hope this helps:)
    xx

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  5. The design of your dress is very beautiful, and the colors looks great here although yeas, red and pink is not the best combination in real world =)

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  6. can you make me this dress? i like the big lace idea. very feminine. -funky-

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