{"id":1573,"date":"2014-01-06T17:16:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2014-03-06T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T20:25:21","slug":"an-aha-moment-for-ks-flower-fairy-paisley-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/an-aha-moment-for-ks-flower-fairy-paisley-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"An aha! Moment for K’s Flower-Fairy-Paisley-dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I looked over the two pages that K stuck a sticky note to in my
\nDover Press paisly book<\/a>, wondering how to make her dress a reality. It felt like too big a design challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"sketch
\nAs I drove over the Olive Street Bridge to the Seabra Grocery Market (we were out of milk) I saw how to make her dress work. Its a good thing I saw the solution with my inner eye, because the road was snowy and there was oncoming traffic. The Olive Street Bridge if MUCH improved since it’s re-engineering, but a snowy bridge in New England is not the best place to get inspired, no matter how stumped I was on the design process.<\/p>\n

If I make many long paisleys, and connect them so the rounded bottom is the hem of the skirt, and the narrow curly part makes the waist, I’ll have an a-line skirt. In fact, I’ll have a one motif a-line skirt that wouldn’t take a whole lot of page space to describe. I might get a salable pattern out of this digression after all – if the paisleys are made a bit thicker, there’s my size gradient. The sketch looks really sketchy – When I make the real dress, I’ll fill in the spaces between the narrow bits of the paisleys – I’ll probably connect the bottoms of the hem, then pin the tops to a waistband on K to get the fit custom. Then I’ll fill in the background. Or, I’ll already have a background waistband\/hip band to pin it to, and sew the paisleys on top.<\/p>\n

\"Flower
\nNow the question: is a little girl’s paisley flower fairy skirt pattern something people would pay enough money for for me to break even on photography and tech editing? Or should I just make charts for myself and share the photos?<\/p>\n

Comment away, please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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