For Poppytalk’s Spring Color Week.

Poppytalk is doing Spring Color Week and while I missed the first 2 days I thought it would be fun to jump in (especially since today is Yellow! Yay!) and post this photo of things I’m looking forward to wearing once the weather is more consistently warm.

• Ruffle copped cardigan wit after market vintage mother of pearl buttons: F21
• Vintage 1970s ’30s-style flocked dress: local antique market
• Vintage 1920s dress: Clever Nettle

Is anyone else here participating?

We love mustard in our household.  I like to buy the kind that comes in funny little jars or ceramic containers because in my mind they are more authentic.  So I get the Inglehoffer brand from Ralphs (it’s Ralphs in L.A., Kroeger in other parts of the U.S.) because 1., it’s called Inglehoffer, 2. it comes in chubby round jars and 3. it’s pretty good.  Oh, and it’s pretty cheap too.

I recently discovered their Cranberry mustard.  It comes in an even tinier jar than the Stone Ground.  And, like it helpfully says on the bottle, it’s “great with turkey.”  Yum.  Especially on a turkey sandwich that also has Swiss, a pinch of celery salt, spinach and red onions.    Just had to share.

Oh, it’s available here too.

I couldn’t wait to post these, I just had to show someone!  I’ve been collecting vintage hankies for years, not entirely sure what I was going to do with them (curtains?  quilt?  aprons?) and feeling quite the hoarder.  Last year I put “hankie dress” on my never-ending to do list and I finally got around to playing with the idea this past weekend.  I haven’t seen a dress like this before (I’ve seen little baby dresses made from hankies but not grown-up girl ones) and I’m pretty happy with the results so far.

I was going for something sweet and not too patchwork-y or hippy.  I used all the same colorway (for this one aqua and yellow/mustard hankies) to help pull the dress together.  I did very little to alter the hankies as I wanted to preserve the look of them.  I also wanted to avoid having to make a pattern.  I recently finished a sundress from a 1950s pattern that looks ok but I spent forever trying to get the fit right (and it still isn’t quite right, dang) and I’m just kind of over patterns right now.  (That’ll be short-lived, I’m sure!)

Basically this dress is just a tube of strategically placed hankies of varying size.  The fanciest part is the ruffle on the front made from a wee hankie that has been one of my favorites.  I’m not 100% sure I’m done yet but I’m very close!

Happy Monday!