French summer dress

This weekend was the first BBQ of the year, the birds were singing, the sun was a shining, I even gone a bit pink on the nose! Spring has sprung and the promise of summer is around the corner.

This is a favourite of mine. Inspired by a trip to Saint Malo in France a few years back, I fell for the little walled town with it's medieval layout and coastal air. Not to mention the delicious crepe's and a hilarious mistaken identity attempting to order scampi in French, naively expecting to get the breaded kind...














As always, I tend to collect things while I'm away. Maps, train tickets, receipts, flyers for local exhibits etc. I was drawn to the map the hotel gave us and have used it here in my print as the background. The foreground print is an image you might recognise from an earlier post, a sketch of the Duomo Cathedral in Florence, Italy.

After dying my dress a fresh green, I've screen printed my images by hand in a darker shade of green to create a subtle design.

The dress has a cute pocket on one side which I've highlighted with my favourite detail in the print.


Think it's surely time to plan another trip..for inspiration purposes of course!