I was walking past some shops last week on a lovely spring day. The kind of day that makes you want to put away all your winter clothes and bring out summer dresses and sandals. (Unfortunately it started raining and being cold later in the week.) In the window of a very cute dress shop was a yellow dress with white spots. It looked so like Spring that I wanted a yellow and white dress.
A couple of days later I went to my favourite fabric store and bought some white broderie anglais for the top of a dress and some butter yellow cotton sateen for the skirt (and some happy yellow linen just because it was there and there was only a bit left on the roll.) I went to another fabric store a few days later to help my sister choose some fabric for a skirt and found on their discount table a roll of pastel yellow broderie anglais and got 1.4m of it for only $1.40 (discount +30% off +put through at remnant price), score! So now I think that I have enough yellow for this summer. I just have to make it all up. I have shrunk the fabric so watch this space for developments on the dresses.
