Garden Tennis Slashed Bikini

Garden Tennis Bikini, Ghost Intimates

My newest pair of bikini bottoms! The mint jersey is from a Miu Miu dress, the floral silk is a Dior nightgown, and the lining in that awesome neon tennis-ball yellow is newly sourced. You can't really tell from this photo, but when you put these undies on, the slashes in the Dior silk spread to reveal a neon surprise! Hm, I just realized this is not the best photo because I took it before I sewed the Ghost Intimates label in, but you get the idea.

Coptic Binding

Did a little playing around with string/thread and the strips of fabric. I love the mustard yellow combination with lavender and coral.

Naked Pillows No More

I finally clothed my pillows!

So a while back, I made my sister send me [from New York!] her un-used pillow fillers, and since then, naked pillows have been sitting around my place, their weird unfinished seams bugging me. And the fabric I've also had for ages; definitely more than a year. But finally, they're done, and I must say it was quite easy, except that for something so easy and logical, it took quite a while to calculate everything so that every opening slit, etc. was in the right place in the end. I'm all for making things yourself, obviously, but I hate when things LOOK "homemade," you know? They should look professional!

I've only made those 2 so far, and I don't think I'm going to use the entire box of pillows that C sent me, but I think I still have a few to make.

P.S. It doesn't look like it's on purlsoho.com anymore, but it says on the selvedge that this fabric is by Tina Givens for Westminster, collection name "Zazu." Flowers, chandeliers, and pink! Hmm...I don't think it's quite girly enough...