A beautiful navy kimono silk with scattered silver dots inspired this full skirt and jacket.
I sketched out an idea:
Which wasn’t quite what I was after.
Sketch #2 was closer to what I wanted, little skinny lines scattered along the bottom edge of the skirt.
Kind of like this:
Direction established, I cut and sewed, recut and re-sewed the bits together, cut some more and sewed until there was enough for a full skirt.
The front half.
Final step: Sew into a skirt and make a jacket to match.
And Voila!
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Oaks Park
Just a few miles south of Portland, on the Willamette River, sits the city’s only surviving amusement park, Oaks Park.
It was built by the Oregon Water Power and Railway Company as an incentive to increase weekend ridership [and revenue]. Billed as the ‘Coney Island of the Northwest’, the park opened in 1905.
Last week, on a walk along the river, I took a short detour through the park.
It was one week before the official Spring opening.
The ticket booth was shuttered.
The midway was empty.
None of the rides or carnival games were operating.
On the 1911 Noah’s Ark Carousel, the hand carved giraffe, ostrich, rooster and dragon were still.
All was quiet, except for one place, the roller rink, which is open year round.
The rink was packed with people skating to the music from a live pipe organ.
That’s right, a genuine musician playing a 1926 Wurlitzer pipe organ!
Although at first it felt as though I had stepped back in time to a long lost era where nostalgia reins, I was happy to find that it’s not a lost past. It’s alive and it’s now and is going strong. The good endures.
Web Site Update
We’ve been working on it for months! It is now up and running, my new website!
Thank you to the amazing Linda at Gray Sky Studio, who worked overtime to make sure that all my website wishes came true.
We’re still tweaking here and there to make sure all is running smoothly, so comments are welcome.
Check it out!
And be sure and check out my shopping page which has new items. Including some at half price!
