Hi there, I'm new to the forum. Any forum actually. But I'm very excited to be here.
I've followed SWAPs from the sideline for many years - I think I may even have had the original Australian Stitches magazines that they were based on, way back. Of course, I was young then and only interested in sewing glamorous one-offs (that were wildly inappropriate for my lifestyle, even then). But something must have registered in the back of my brain as I've been interested in the concept ever since.
This year, I'm going to give it a go. SWAKOP is perfectly timed. Thank you for organising it. My plans are still sketchy - I'm very glad we don't have to lock everything in up front!
I'm an 'autumn', colour-wise, so the colours will probably be based around greens, browns and cream, with an accent or two somewhere I hope. I lead a very casual life, no glamour here whatsoever (which suits me to a T). I also live in what might be described as a mild climate - it's the middle of winter here and we're expecting 22 degrees Celsius today. I'm going to get the most wear out of casual trousers and shirts and maybe a light layer.
I've studied the rules and trawled through The Vivienne Files (a site I find very helpful for building-a-wardrobe ideas) and my stash and have come up with the following plan. Hopefully I'll progressively be able to swap out the written descriptions with images, but one step at a time... it will be a miracle if this plan shows up at all, though Francesca's instructions are excellent.
The little green smiley face indicates a finished item - so still a long way to go. I just finished it last week, but no photo yet. I'm pretty sure I've finished the other upper in group 3 too - the refashion item which was prompted by the other sew-along. It may not end up in the final collection -will depend if I have something to tie it in. I'll try to take pictures of both soon at any rate.
That's probably long enough for my second post. Thanks for reading this far. It's great to be here. I'd better go off and mention my refashion item in that thread now.
Renita