This coat, from our last photoshoot, the fabulous Grace showing it off perfectly.
I call it “Sweep” because out of the grey, the red sweeps across the front.
The jagged, triangle shapes are pieced and then overlaid with skinny strips appliquéd on top.
For a closer look, a photo of the coat in-process.
Grace had put on her boots so she could run outside and feed her parking meter. After she came back we all thought they looked so good with the coat we asked her to keep them on.
Pretty cool don’t you think?
piecing
Seedlings
OK! All orders are completed and shipped, followed by a few weeks to relax and renew.
Onward! To new work, new ideas and fabrics.
This is the way it starts, an idea in my head, maybe a sketch, often piles of fabric.
Does this look like a pieced jacket to you?
Or how about this one?
In my head, it’s little snippets of color splashed across a white jacket.
The first try may not work but instead, leads to something else.
Like this purple [my camera sees brown, but it’s purple] and these pretty blues, rejects from the pieced jacket above. They were in the ‘no’ group, looking beautiful together. They’ll go into another project, an oversize coat with skinny appliqués.
This one started with a skirt looking for a top.
Can you see it? It’s not a piece of fabric with tiny scraps pinned here and there and stuck on a dress form. It’s a brand new jacket.
Like seeds to a gardener, it’s all about potential. Not what it is, but what it will become.
New Jet Jacket
In process, a new jacket, ‘Blue Jet’.
For a customer who wanted the style I call ‘Jet’.
Jet, because it looks like it’s taking off, zooming into the stratosphere.
Like the jacket pictured below, ‘Jet Remainders’.
Only she wanted it in blues, like ‘Jet Top and Pants’ shown below.
I love my customers! Who are fine with combining and varying different concepts into brand new pieces.