This coat/dress ensemble was made in 2007, and exhibited in the Tampa Convergence Fashion Show. It is a colorful piece, and I especially love the Inkle Band I made, which wasn’t made to actually go with the coat, but happened to go with it, and made a lovely trim. The dress is a raw silk that was sitting in my stash, courtesy of a student who passed on some leftover fabric. The original photos had my daughter modeling the piece, but I wanted the photos I am submitting to the SDA Fashion Show to be consistent, so I took the opportunity to reshoot the piece.
I actually don’t like the way the piece fits me. I made it using one of my jacket patterns, but did nothing to alter the pattern for my specific body. I do that occasionally, just make the piece, I don’t care who it fits. But now I’m sort of caring, because I really like the coat and dress, and as I was putting it on my dressform, I’m thinking that I might add to my list of projects a remake of the shoulder/armhole/sleeve area to actually work on my body. What’s one more project in the pile?!?
But I’ve finished the photoshoot, and I’m going off to lunch with some girlfriends, this week we hit the sushi bar. I’ll enter the show when I get back, and then start working on all the bills and paperwork due at the end of the month after I put my studio back together.
Hi Daryl,
Your work is so beautiful and creative.I am amazed at this site and the work you do for your blog.I enjoyed lunch today. See you at the next meeting of the Thursday Philosophy Club at the Grasshopper!
Why thank you Kathy! I enjoyed lunch as well, the sushi and the company were fabulous!
I really love this one, especially the inkle trim. You definately inspire me to make myself something vest or jacketwise. I am giving myself the MAFA Workshop Weekend as a deadline. Dead of Summer in Getttysburg yeah…but they have a fashion show.
Go for it Jenny! Times are tough all over, and jobs are being lost left and right, there is a dark gloom hanging over the world, but we still have our creativity, and our desire to make stuff. We have the tools, and we most assuredly have the stash! And it is the dark of winter, especially in the northeast. So there is no better time than to make something wonderful for your soul that comes from your hands, with a little help from the stash! Send me a photo! (Or bring it to Show and Tell). Sadly I won’t… Read more »
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