My favorite Hitchcock film – so far, as I haven’t yet seem them all – is Dial M For Murder. The director was brilliant – and yes I realize he had about a hundred and one issues with women, and none of them bore very good results – but. Still.
North by Northwest is another I enjoyed –
And of course, Vertigo. On my first viewing my favorite part was the nightmare sequence (which is, it goes without saying, far better viewed within the context of the film):
So of course, I thought I would make a baby bunting thusly. Because it just makes sense.
This was my first experience using Spoonflower’s printing service (you can view my brother’s uploaded designs at their site). I was very disappointed in the results of the twill, which faded quite a bit upon my initial wash (gentle, in cold water). However, I am not done with Spoonflower by any means. I’d like to continue to work with them (and if you, dear reader, know of another custom-printing house for small batches, let me know) although I feel some consternation I do so potentially at my own peril of lost-materials cost. An in-house screenprinting studio is hard to negotiate given we four live in a two-bedroom house… but my wheels are turning as I’d like to be able to do more with the fabrics I use.
(Hee hee, lined in the iconic Vertigo poster art!)
You can read more about the construction and materials of this in the Flickr tagset. I put it up on my homesewn sub-site. And I’ve decided I need to make, oh… like a billion more sci-fi, classic, or B-movie-film-based clothing items.
ALSO: NEED ACTUAL BABY TO PUT IN THE BABY CLOTHES I MAKE
Love it! Very clever – did the lining fabric come from Spoonflower, too? Or is there some amazing place you found it? Just curious, since it’s so unusual. I can just see your whole line of film-based clothing: Creature from the Black Lagoon, anyone?
@Jen
Yes, both the shell and lining fabrics came from Spoonflower. And as far as the Creature goes, ha, I’ve already been designing fabric incorporating that figure!
I’d love to work on making that baby. Just let me go consult my husband. Srsly.
@s*
YESSSS!
Rear Window. Definitely Rear Window.
@Dano
You know, RW had it’s moments but all I was distracted by what a dick James Stewart’s character was to Grace Kelly’s character . And how boring I find Grace Kelly’s performance, at least every time I’ve seen her so far.
Still, the end was pretty dang suspenseful!
They’re doing NbNw at the Theatre next year. Good times! What ridiculousness can I sew for that?
I think I beat s* to it.
The baby who wears that thing is going to have some serious cred.
@Jen
Is that an announcement?!
@Medrie
Yes, credit with the other haute-cinema babies. Hee.
@Jen
If it is, go to it sister! You’re at least 40+ weeks up on me. There’s still a bit of coaxing to be done over here.
This is brilliant.
Ummm… more like a “shhhh, don’t tell anybody yet…”. I just found out. But I figure that you and your readers are unlikely to tell my kids.
@Alexis
Thank you!
@Jen
Congratulations!
Love this–both the idea and the execution! I haven’t seen Vertigo in years, but this makes me want to plan a rainy day screening.
@Suzie
Thanks! I am anxiously awaiting the next bit of design my brain comes up with.
And a rainy day Hitchcock screening sounds excellent!