Project One pt. 5 and an Opening

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layouttailorstacksWell I made the decision, and went with the pattern from the muslin.  I played around with the layout for quite awhile today, I admit, I was stalling for time, not wanting to make that first cut.  Once I cut, there was no turning back.  Since there was no repeat over the length of the yardage,  the center front seam would be critical and I would need to match colorways as best I could.  I was reasonably happy with the way the darks carried through the two halves and I’m now working out the bodice part, which is cut in two halves, left and right, there is no shoulder seam and the pieces eventually become bias.  What appears to be the shoulder seams on the photo above, are really the side seams on the bias.  I transferred all the markings with tailor’s tacks.

galleryphoenixgalleryI attended the opening of the gallery show in NYC tonight, of the Textile Study Group of NY’s member’s show, Economies of Scale.  It was a beautiful show, very crowed, and I was thrilled to have a couple of my pieces in it.  Details of the show and images of the pieces I had in the show are in the Upcoming events box on the right, it is up through January 31.  No work in the show could be larger than 6 inches in any dimension, and it was amazing to see how the 48 pieces in the show in various textile techniques accommodated the constricting parameters.  Bigger isn’t always necessarily better.  Even in my own work, I was pleasantly surprised that the pieces I did, scaled down from larger works, were as effective as they were in that scale.  The feedback was very positive.

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