2013 Spring Pantone Color Contest

 

 

The spring Pantone colors are beautiful and stray just enough from my usual color palette to entice me into entering.

 

Great...now what?!

 

Since I needed a two-piece outfit and the colors needed to adhere to the Pantone limitations, and also pass muster from our contest facilitator, the lovely Sigrid, I decided I'd better shop for fabric locally rather than online. Nothing floated my boat! I came home empty handed and discouraged.

 

Wait a minute, might there be something in my stash? Eureka! I had two fabrics that I thought might work; a polyester poplin I had purchased earlier this year from High Fashion and a knit from Gorgeous Fabrics. I photographed them and asked Sigrid to apply her "magic dots":

 



 

Yippee! Sigrid agreed that my fabrics have close representations of 7 of the 10 Pantone colors as shown below and marked by scissors:

 

 

 

Again...now what??

 

Every time I go through my patterns I think of that scene from Gone With the Wind when Scarlett tells Mammy, "Go up to the attic and get Mother's old box of dress patterns!" She was on a roll with Ms. Ellen's portiers and so was I with my poplin!

 

The dress I decided to embark on is almost lost on the pattern envelope. Semi-boring, right?:

 

 

But wait!

 

The line drawing is awesome! For me, almost like making a long-line bra! I'm in!

 

 

 

It turns out the hard part was finding a pattern for a coordinating piece for my knit fabric, of which I didn't have very much. Then I found V8885. At first glance, rather , eh...

Grandmother-of the-Bride-ish:

 

 

 

 

Until I saw the line drawing of View A and then I thought it would be just the snappy little accompaniment that I needed for my dress:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rest is history...so sew, sew, sew. I have complete reviews of V8718 and V8885 on Pattern Review and here is my official contest flyer:

 

 

 

Thanks so much for reading about my contest adventure! And, please, let me know what you think of my interpretation of the 2013 Spring Pantone colors! Check out all the entries on Pattern Review and cast your vote!