New Belle Frocks ...

Belle Frock swingtag

New Belle Frocks

More colours for the new Belle Frocks

I have been cutting new frocks today. Here's a few pictures of the new colours.

I am trying out some darker colours as I think they will look quite dramatic.

The red/pink floral is from an organic cotton fabric as is the maroon one.








 

And some maybes for the embellishments but I can never really tell what's best until they are sewn up!

New postcard

We have a new postcard!  


After having huge fun making new label tags for our applique slouchy tops I fell in love with the look of the font on my stamp printer wheelie thing (whatever it's called!) and so now that font is taking over!

I also now notice that my favourite pics that got on to the new postcard were all quite summery.  And it's still freezing here!  
[And we've had a huge earthquake!!!]

The great thing about this business is that it's either spring/summer or I am planning new clothes and looking at fabric samples for summer.  So check out the summer Belle Frock.  I have made a very few with hand stitched applique and they are stunning.  Of course the new fabric choices will not have this hand stitching.  But they will still be really cool (stylie) and cool (made of nice natural breathable cotton)!  

There's the pic of stamp printer wheelie thing - what would you call it???

New slouchy tops

It's been interesting times around here.  Luckily I have people to help me when I am too busy to face the sewing machine!  I have been up in Fiji - every six months I am part of a team of voluntary mentors who go to help out SME businesses up there.  The goal is to create jobs.

Meanwhile back in NZ my own job-creating programme was working away on some new products.  First of all we have the new Minnie + Ree slouchy tops.  These are from the WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production) supplier that I wrote about in my last post.  The tops have come out so well, I've already nicked a couple off the rack!  They have appliqued motifs and a cute useful little back pocket.  There's a surprisingly lot of work in cutting out and attaching the motifs. I prepared them all, sewed the first one, flew away and came back to find they were all magically finished!! There are two styles - a 100% cotton crew shape with a band at the bottom,  and a 50% cotton 50% modal Hi Lo hem.  (Modal is fabric made from tree bark.)  They have been made up in the standard Minnie + Ree sizes: Small is NZ 8-10-12 and Average is NZ 14-16-18.  With these I think the slouchy-baggier the better!

The weather is crap here today so I can't get any decent photos to put on the website!!  But here's a pic until then ...