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.
mother of the bride / groom
New Jacket for a Mother of a Bride
I spent last week immersed in a happy and enjoyable project.
For a mother of a bride, a special jacket pieced in her favorite colors.
Blue and purple with a dash of fuchsia and gold. All set off with a base of black.
Below, working on the front, the right side finished.
By the end of Friday, on my [clean!] floor, piecing completed. The front, sleeves, collar and back.
Next up, beads for sparkle and dash.
Stay tuned.
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.
