My way to celebrate Labor Day?
Keep busy.
On my table, last week’s projects:
Subtle beading on the mother of the bride jacket.
The same for a pair of pants. Can you see them? A black strip just visible in the middle the picture, with black beads along the side seams.
Orange and black scarves, [Princeton University’s colors, for a store close to their campus].
And the beginnings of a purple shell, beads to be added, to go under the pieced jacket.
I’m sending everyone wishes for a beautiful fall!
Perfectly ripe tomatoes, fat orange pumpkins, sweet grapes, apples, pears and
the perfect amount of the work you love.
beading
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.
