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 Paula Seifred O'Brien - Artwork - Sewing Patterns - Colorful Home - Inspiration |
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4 friends in Bloomsbury Garden Jacket & Hat worn with Sundown Skirt. The center ones are in cottons. Dark floral is a soft flannel print. I am wearing "my little travelling suit" which features a peplum made from a thriftstore chenille bedspread complete with its fringe, skirt features fringe & photo-transfers. The buttons are large sculptural ones of Loius XV chairs. These chair buttons do not pass through buttonholes but are mounted on the same side as buttonholes so that there are buttons down both sides of jacket when worn open, a nice touch.
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Finished views of My
Little Travelling Suit, a modified version of Bloomsbury Garden
Jacket and a Sundown Skirt. The white peplum was cut from a chenille
bedspread found at a thrift store. As I held it up in the store, the
person next to me said "Oh, too bad it has that big stain on
it." "That's ok," I said, "I'm planning to cut
it up anyway and it's perfect." Inspiration for this wearable art garment started with the historical French print on muslin from Camela Nitschke's Ribbonry Shop. Here it is with all the possible fabrics jumbled around it on my workatble. This is when I audition fabrics and delete offending ones. |
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| This is a mockup of fabrics to feature on the back panel, including leaves and the long black strips below to replicate the tassles which would hang there later. These are missing from the phot on top of page. | Things are progressing. The flowers and
leaves have been cut and bonded in place. |
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Fabrics jumbled to represent the skirt panels which feature color photcopy transfers. |