Quilted
Jacket: 1997
I wanted to update my wardrobe with a little bit of patchwork fashion and had fallen for Mary Mashuta’s book, "Wearable Art for Real People", 1989. I chose my favourite design, found a pattern and selected fabrics with pink & black roses as a starting point. Later I added a batik, a nice soft, fine cotton, for lining and sandwiched pellon inbetween. The main fabric was hand dyed (discharged dyed) after folding it shibori style. (This actually jogs my memory about a class I did with Deborah Brearley and the Geelong Quilters Guild- 4 Jun 1988- some years before.) I've been dabbling with dyeing (procion dyes & bleaches) every now and then ever since.
I loved this jacket, even though I hardly wore it. I had made the sleeves ¾ length and I found that a bit annoying in the end. Somehow solutions to fix it only seemed to make it worse. And by then of course, such dramatic pieces were no longer fashionable...
I wanted to update my wardrobe with a little bit of patchwork fashion and had fallen for Mary Mashuta’s book, "Wearable Art for Real People", 1989. I chose my favourite design, found a pattern and selected fabrics with pink & black roses as a starting point. Later I added a batik, a nice soft, fine cotton, for lining and sandwiched pellon inbetween. The main fabric was hand dyed (discharged dyed) after folding it shibori style. (This actually jogs my memory about a class I did with Deborah Brearley and the Geelong Quilters Guild- 4 Jun 1988- some years before.) I've been dabbling with dyeing (procion dyes & bleaches) every now and then ever since.
I loved this jacket, even though I hardly wore it. I had made the sleeves ¾ length and I found that a bit annoying in the end. Somehow solutions to fix it only seemed to make it worse. And by then of course, such dramatic pieces were no longer fashionable...
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| The jacket would look better if it was on a model but one can't take photos & model at the same time!!! |
