Shelly‘s was my first Twitter-born friendship. Almost as soon as we connected, we were emailing and I expressed a wee problem to her as an aside: it was the first week of last summer–one day before summer camp was to start for my kiddos, I found out that due to an error I made, neither of my kids was actually going to be able to attend camp the next day … or for the next month … in the desert …… in 110 degree heat ……….. for a month ………. with nothing to do. And I had to work. That is called deep doodoo for a mama. And I was rather upset. And so I expressed that to Shelly and said that I wished I could just drive my kids up the west coast and camp in tree houses and yurts and end up in Oregon. It was sheer escapist fantasy, but my new Twitter-born friend immediately took action. She put it out on her social media that a friend of hers needed to housesit and she started making stuff happen. It was the nicest thing she could have possibly done.
You have seen Shelly Figueroa’s gorgeous patterns for Figgy’s. She is a very talented designer and her branding/product photography is wickedly good and drool-worthy. But you already know that because she rocks. You may not know that she has ongoing crowd-funding campaign for her big plans to create a sewing studio and foundation in Oregon. She also teaches a superfun class on Craftsy here.
Anyway, she made this INCREDIBLE dress (which has an exquisite opening in the back) using her Scirocco pattern and, well… *swoon*. Go see her blog here and enter to win a Layer Cake (10″ squares) of the entire range of COLLAGE! Thank you, Shelly!
love that Shelly!!
This is such a cute dress!