Hey crafty peeps!!
Another top notch title from Mr Loops there I’m sure you’ll agree…
So this week I have for you a neon and lace set!! I started it well before Xmas but with everything that happened I’ve only just managed to finish it off
My initial idea inspiration was from this skirt, but of course we all know that I’m not a subtle person so I favoured the idea of black over a neon colour!!
So I decided I’d make a lace overskirt with this beautiful embroidered lace, with a separate underskirt, so that I could have all manner of colour combos (maybe even with shorts too) depending on my mood, and handily I had enough fabric leftover to make a matching top too!
It perhaps doesn’t look as fluorescent neon highlighter green as you’d expect from me… until you see it without the lace over the top…
I would have liked to make a circle skirt, as I looove some flare, but since I wanted to use the scallop on the bottom I ended up doing a simple tube skirt on my first attempt and just gathered the top with elastic. Downfall is that this was incredibly bulky on the waist, so since I’d only used half the fabric I started again and did a 5 gore skirt instead.
And since I didn’t want to waste the skirt I’d already made, I used that fabric to make a matching top with one of my favourite patterns (George and Ginger - Teen Spirit Top [affiliate link]) and some purdy satin bias binding
For the under-pieces I had initially got some nice [what I thought from the photo was] neon satin fabric, but they really weren’t doing it for me, so when I spotted some actual neon ribbed jersey fabric at Pound Fabrics I had to have it! Suffice to say I got green, and also yellow, and tbh I’m pondering getting the pink too cos who doesn’t adore some 80’s neon???!
Question is, can I get away with the full neon lace set??? I’m not 100% sure yet whether I’ll wear the set together, but hey, I can wear all the pieces separately eh, and the lace top will come in really handy in summer to hide my batwings (currently covered in puppy bites, as is most of my body!!)
And finally it’s time for a couple of puppy pictures!
Hope ya like it!!
Loops xx