A beautiful navy kimono silk with scattered silver dots inspired this full skirt and jacket.
I sketched out an idea:
Which wasn’t quite what I was after.
Sketch #2 was closer to what I wanted, little skinny lines scattered along the bottom edge of the skirt.
Kind of like this:
Direction established, I cut and sewed, recut and re-sewed the bits together, cut some more and sewed until there was enough for a full skirt.
The front half.
Final step: Sew into a skirt and make a jacket to match.
And Voila!
A Bouquet of Loops
Beautiful mother of the bride Betsy Bensen, jeweler extraordinaire [check out her fantastic work here, standing next to her gorgeous daughter in my ‘Party Loops’ top.
I love this photo!
Thank you Betsy for sending it to me!
‘Party Loops’ was sewn with many skinny bias tubes of silk, looped and stitched in place with beads onto a sheer kimono silk.
My inspiration? I wanted it to look as though it had been woven from a bouquet of flowers.
Circle Vest
I posted an ‘in process’ photo of this vest a while back. Since then, I finished it, brought it to photographer Dan Kvitka who made this beautiful picture with the fantastic Grace Holland, exhibited it at the Baltimore show and sent it on its way to a new home.
Sometimes it’s like that, before you turn around, they rush off to a new life.
Before it was sewn to the body of the vest, the finished peplum laid out on the floor.
So many circles! This one took a while.
My view as I worked on it. A close up shot showing the petal like circles, each held in place with a bead.
