How was your day?
High – well, finding that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was pretty cool.
Low – I could have done without falling down the abandoned mineshaft.

Translates brilliantly to sewing too, thanks to Crafting A Rainbow.

I’m going to use the sometimes controversial  ‘Boss’ scale to rate these:

Like A Boss – Hugo Boss – Boss Hogg

Hits/Highs

happy skirt of happiness hanging on the line

New outer – Liberty Edenham

Gotta stand by the window to get the light

Top left to bottom right we have the:

• Barley Harvest Skinny Scarf
• A Bird in the Hand Skirt
• Re-fashioned shell
• Purple Skirt
• Purple bloom top

I wear all of these loads and I rate them all at a level between Hugo Boss and Like A Boss.  In the spirit of self-knowledge I would say the reason that they are successful is that they suit my body shape.  I am all angles on the top and rounded at the bottom.  I favour a slim fitted rear and gathers, shaping and general attention-drawing-enhancements at the top.

Misses/Lows

And this. Looks better than I thought.

Yes, that is a zip

Some of these are almost too painful to discuss in public.  Again top left to bottom right:

• Circle Skirt – now, she received a lot of blog love but I couldn’t get on with the colour.  I dyed her Pebble Beige (what was I thinking?), and she know lives un-ironed and un-loved in the airing cupboard.
• Ill-advised top-stitching.  The dress turned out all right in the end but this photo serves to remind me that not all fitting issues can be fixed by top-stitching.
• Denim trousers.  Just feel like the dorkiest of dorks in these, so bad I don’t even blog about the attempts to remedy the fit/style problems.  Maybe they need to be a skirt?
• Re-fashion fails.  It’s taken me a while to accept these as fails but it they don’t get worn I guess it tells me something.  Totally at the Boss Hogg end of the ‘Boss’ Scale.

Let’s finish with one of my favourite photos of the year!

He really shouldn’t take his own potions, there’s a reason he’s a supply teacher.