My latest sewing project is a birthday gift for Mez: a kimono-style silk robe, cornflower blue, trimmed with black brocade and lined with eggplant-purple silk. I didn’t have a pattern to work from, so I snuck into his closet and stole some measurements from one of his jackets and improvised from there. The result is a little outside my usual range, but it’s very Mez, and yet somehow very me, too. I didn’t quite get it done in time – the hems are unfinished, and it needs a belt – but I made the formal presentation anyway, and he seemed very pleased.
It’s beautiful, Mars!
Comment by Green-eyed so and so — February 4, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
Thank you.
Comment by mars — February 4, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
OMG Mars, that’s gorgeous!
Comment by lily — February 5, 2008 @ 10:15 am