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Alabama-Chanin, Mola, Sticken, Mütze, Jersey, Upcycling
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Alabama-Chanin, Mola, Sticken, Mütze, Jersey, Upcycling
Background of hand-painted interfacing, appliqued petals, machine and hand stitching.
Summery Tee ~ I've been saving a yard of this gorgeous, hand-dyed madder fabric for just the right project. When I put together this combination, I knew I had found it. This is also a great example of something you can make at my two-day hand stitching workshop in Gig Harbor, Washington with Bellissima Art Escapes in August. We'll be going over everything ~ cutting, stenciling, and stitching ~ step by step, so really, you REALLY can make it! This is the fitted t-shirt pattern from Alabama Studio Sewing + Design book, by Natalie Chanin. I like to make this shirt a size larger than normal, because I don't like things too clingy. The top layer of fabric is natural and the bottom layer is a hand-dyed madder. Coral or persimmon might be good substitutes if the madder isn't available. I used DMC variegated floss #4130, Chilean sunset, to backstitch around the new leaves stenciled areas; and Coats & Clarks button craft thread in dogwood for the construction. If this project is one of your first projects, I might suggest using the running stitch instead of the backstitch. The backstitch takes three times as long as the running stitch. This shirt is worked in the negative reverse applique technique, so most of the top layer is cut away. This is a panel before I cut away most of the top layer. Here are a couple before and after shots of cutting the top layer away. I wanted a little more cream in the overall design, so I stitched some Alabama eyelets and French knots into the madder background. I snipped around the added embroidered "flowers". I experimented and appliqued a few small cut circles of natural colored fabric. I knew the cut edges would curl up when I washed it. I'm on the fence about the results. What do you think? Here's a close up after washing. Here's a few ways I'll wear my new tee in summer and into autumn. Here I've paired the shirt with a single layered, unembellished fitted tank dress. The dress is among the first garments I had made and is one of my go-to pieces. It's so comfortable and cool in the summertime. What will you be doing to keep cool this summer?
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Alabama-Chanin, Mola, Sticken, Mütze, Jersey, Upcycling
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The Bunkhouse is what we call the little cottage next to our home. I use it for my workspace and it also serves as our guest quarters. It's a sweet little 500 Sq. Ft. beach cottage, single wall construction so in the summer it's baking in there. But I have managed to slide in a few sewing days so far this summer. A few of my sewing pals and I went up to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to catch High Style at The Legion of Honor. The show has ended now, I hope you got a chance to see it. Very instructive and interesting. A curator's take on the history of certain designers, eras and fashions. After seeing the show we gathered in the museum's restaurant and had a lovely lunch. And then, of course, we went shopping for fabric. Satin Moon was closed, darn it. Such a jewel or a fabric shop owned by two very discerning sisters (who happened to know my husband in high school!). So we moseyed on over to Fabrix on the same street. I think all of us got something. I was desperate, I wanted a lightweight shirting for another of Marcy Tilton's Vogue 9089 long shirt (out of print it seems, what a shame!) The first one I made is wonderful but the fabric is very heavy, even though it's cotton. Our California coastal weather is a bit warm this year and I needed something breezier. So, I convinced myself this fabric was a madras....yeah, it was a stretch. And I don't usually wear such bright plaids. Plus I didn't really know how to match plaids. So my pal, Jenny, the uber sewing queen came over and gave me a lesson. The front turned out pretty well but the back was more difficult with the offset bias. I inserted another side pocket, this one is only one layer of fabric sewn onto the front panels. As I mentioned, the back is just so-so, this pattern really shouldn't have been attempted with a plaid, I think....or we just couldn't figure out the best way to lay it out. I can live with it. And I love the shirt since it's perfect for our new and improved Capitola weather! More kantha jewelry. These are the styrofoam cubes I cut and cover with little pieces of kantha. I strung them with elastic cord and inserted little lava beads. I wore it yesterday and it feels good. This kind of hand stitching is so fun. I'm basically hand stitching OVER old hand stitching. My jewelry making group that I attend about once a month is so much fun. We sit around a table in a beautiful art studio, surrounded by beautiful works of art and the most amazing cache of tools you could ever ask for. I love these times because it's a chance for me to let myself just play and make things randomly, exploring different mediums and ideas. It may never go anywhere but that's not the point of the process. Here you see another old bicycle inner tube made into a necklace. I used the part where you blow it up plus several trinkets off of a pair of old earrings I don't wear anymore. Here's the closure. I need to take a class on findings, connections and closures for soft jewelry. I'm working on that! And here is a project I've been working on for a year and a half...and I'm not sure it's getting any better! It's Lynn Mizono's classic tunic again. I really love this pattern. I used an old silk and linen pants/shell outfit I wasn't wearing anymore plus other random fabrics. The buttons are vintage, carved and mismatched mother-of-pearl. It was not quite right at first, it sat in my closet for a year. I didn't like the pieces of fabric I'd sewn on the front so I took most of them off. Then I decided to silk screen it with Marcy's silk screens. I might just have gone overboard-ya think? I'm trying to figure out what to do with it now. Maybe overdue it with grey? I love the drape. I also used discharge in the circle silk screen on the back and it turned almost the same color as the front pieces...just lucky. My wonderful friend, Annie, came over and I asked her how I could tone it down a bit. She suggested free motion stitching on the aqua circles to mute them a bit. I like it, not sure it helped but... This stitching was done after the other photos so I'm sorry you can't see that change on the whole garment. It helped some. Any and all suggestions welcome.
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