Handmade Designer Women's Apparel
Can you believe it? Here we are again. The light returns and a new year begins.
Let’s acknowledge this magical time!
However you celebrate I hope you have the very best and happiest holidays ever!!!
And, for sure, I send all my wishes to you for a joyful, delightful and blissful 2023!!!
My left over pieces of kimono silk are too beautiful, too amazing, too gorgeous to throw out.
Especially the bits and pieces of meisen silk. Meisen, a fabric that is woven, printed with a design, then unwoven, and then, rewoven again.
Yep, rewoven.
When it is rewoven, the threads do not line up back to the way they were. The printed design looks soft and out of focus.
My scraps and leftover bits pile up until I have enough for a new project. This time it was a full skirt with a matching jacket. It’s is all meisen, mostly in black and white with bits of red and, for a little extra, navy blue.
A detail shot. It’s not an out of focus photo, it’s the fabric.
I build my full skirts in sections, piecing each panel, one at a time, until I have 16.
Here they are, laid out on my floor, ready to be sewn together. There’s not enough room to lay it out into a full circle, so I spread it out into a giant ‘U’ shape and remember that the two sides will be next to each other in the final version.
A close up of the jacket. They wasn’t quite enough of the ‘dotted’ fabric, so I added in the stripe, sort of like a peplum.
This skirt and jacket, lots of scarves, other jackets and tops are listed in my web-shop.
Check them out here.
I love photos of real people wearing my work! My clothes in the real world, what could be better than that?
For example, beautiful Niki, in one of my scarves. Behind her is the perfect background, a print of kimonos.
Look at this fantastic photo of Jane wearing her new outfit. She loves color and ‘Gold and Purple Swirl Jacket’ over a bright orange blouse was perfect for her big party. Fantastic!
A whole other look, she’s wearing a blue pieced jacket with the coolest print that fades from little white triangles to tiny dots. Wow.
What should the mother of the groom wear for the rehearsal dinner? How about a full skirt and jacket from me and a perfectly matched hat from another craft artist? Add the best accessory possible, a beautiful smile, and you are good to go. Gorgeous!
So you can get an idea of the whole look, a picture of the skirt, which is under the table in the picture above. She did an excellent job of putting all the pieces together! So beautiful.
For a party on a warm summer afternoon, Linda shone in this full skirt pieced from a fantastic kimono silk, with a matching vest.
Below, a detail shot showing the piecing in the skirt. The subtle directional shine of the fabric shows off the pieced fabric shapes.
Thank You Thank You to these fantastic women who sent these photos. Every single one of you is absolutely gorgeous!