Pub­lished 2/12/2014

I admit I am slight­ly obsessed with flo­ral prints. This may seem strange, since I rarely wear prints or colors.

If you were to peek into my clos­et, you’d find neu­tral cloth­ing with small splash­es of col­or­ful flo­ral print­ed gar­ments! You might think­ing to your­self, “How come she wears col­or­ful flo­ral prints and not wear oth­er prints or sol­id col­ors?” Well, I think it’s because of my Ukrain­ian mother!

I recent­ly went through old fam­i­ly pho­to albums. And as I went through the assort­ment of pho­tos from the past 20 or so years, I start­ed to see a cloth­ing trend: Flo­rals. And no, it wasn’t a trend found in one par­tic­u­lar time in my life- it was every year and every sea­son!

Below are some exam­ples: The flo­ral rompers for our annu­al Christ­mas card were made by my mom!

  As you can see, I grew up wear­ing soft flo­ral prints. Per­haps this is why I’m drawn to them, whether they’re the sea­son­al trend or not.

Two years ago, I made this shift dress for Easter.

I didn’t use a com­mer­cial pat­tern. Instead I com­bined two sep­a­rate block (bodice & skirt) pat­terns from the pre­vi­ous year. Since my body shrunk dur­ing that year, I had to take in the dress. This is why the side seams don’t match up.

I found a beau­ti­ful design­er silk wool flo­ral fab­ric less than a week before East­er. The price tag on the fab­ric was high. But since I need­ed less than 1.5 yards of fab­ric and no lin­ing, the high price tag didn’t both­er me! And 2 years lat­er, it was total­ly worth buy­ing the fab­ric because I still  LOVE & wear the dress!

Stay tuned…I have many more flo­ral projects to come this spring & summer!

And some gar­ments will be made from prints I’ve created 🙂