I’ve been sewing like mad for all sorts of clients, and I’ll show you images of those soon.  As a little treat for myself I took some time to whip up something for me. This is my Love at First Flight Dress: The inspiration for the dress was the amazing Echino fabric by Etsuko Furuya for Kokka. Steph took me to a fabric store while I was in Australia, and I saw this fabric and I had to have it.  It was love at first sight. How could I not?  It’s pink and blue and red and green and turquoise and mustard.  And it’s linen cotton.  And it looks like Christmas in the Antipodes: all sunshine and ocean and brilliant red pohutukawa flowers.  And it has birds on it!   Just look at the full width of it: And then I saw the Au$32 a metre price tag.  Ahem. I bought everything that was left on the bolt anyway: just about 3 metres.  Did I mention that it has birds on it? This is now …