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.
beading
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.
New Year, New Work
Last November, I posted an in process story about this vest.
By my December Holiday Show, it was finished and on view.
Maybe you spotted it in one of the photos about the show?
All around the peplum I had stitched and beaded, circles cut from kimono silk.
You know, it was fun! And I liked the final result. The circles added dimension, like petals.
So, to start off 2018 and in line with my resolution [figure out my favorite things to do and do more of them], I’m making another. A sibling to the first,
Below, all appliqués stitched and beaded and ready to be sewn into a new vest.