So it turns out that Plaidurday is a thing (as it must be) as well as it’s on October 5th this year. I plan to take part completely — I’ve been itching to make a plaid shirtdress (or two) as well as this is a fantastic excuse.

I don’t understand if I’ll have all the kinks of a new shirtdress pattern worked out in buy to utilize this fabric, however I hope so:

It’s plaid as well as dots, as well as it’s really, truly great Italian cotton (here’s a close-up). I gotten it in Portland totally serendipitously — there was a fantastic bit material store about a block from my hotel. I truly liked the material store — it’s called Josephine’s — for a number of reasons. First, they weren’t irked in any way when I wandered in fifteen minutes to closing; I’ve been to method as well lots of little shops where it’s as much as your life is worth to go in thirty minutes before the closing time written on the door to take that niceness for granted. as well as in addition to this plaid, they had some truly great fabric, including the fox material I published about the other day. (It’s always fun to see something you’ve already made up still on the bolt in the material store — it feels like greeting an old friend.) Besides, I’m always wary in a (US) material store when I don’t acknowledge *anything* — I feel like that indicates whatever is either super-generic or really, truly old. however this location had some great Moda materials as well as a great balance between cotton prints as well as fancier stuff. (Although: what is up with all the ITY knits or whatever those slinky poly things are? I don’t comprehend it.) They likewise had this pattern — which has been in my “maybe” stack for a while — made up as well as on display, as well as it looked truly good.

They don’t have a web store (and anyway, I gotten the last of this on the bolt) however they do take phone orders (and likewise had it in blue). I was briefly lured by the blue colorway, however it had a great deal of navy in it — this plaid has just sufficient blue, anyway. The whole point of plaid is being able to pull any type of of the colors in it to the foreground with figured out accessorizing, as well as I just never am able to discover navy shoes that don’t make me feel like a cross between a first-year partner in a extremely conventional legislation firm as well as a gawky eighth grader in a parochial school.

This is most likely my preferred type of plaid — a bit rough as well as painterly, not precise (which seems like an strange thing to like in a plaid, however there it is). as well as the dots are just a whole additional level of busy-cute.

So what are you using for Plaidurday?

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