Holly Badgley Workshop

 Our wearable art group PenWAG in Campbell, CA had Holly come and do a presentation on her trip to Japan and then a workshop on silk screening. I have enjoyed following her style on the internet for quite sometime.

 This is a old linen man's shirt I found to recycle. I did some of her silk screening and then added some hand sewing.

I used jelly roll fabric for the trim.

 The side slits. Also used a selvage from a knit fabric that I had saved. Made great trim.

 She does a unique pocket.

Added a old kimono the for the button loop.

A New Vest

This is what has been taking up all my time. I attended Rosemary Eichorn's workshop. She is a excellent teacher. Makes things very understandable. I had had her book since it first came out and was always going to make something out of it. Well, the opportunity finally came along and I couldn't pass it up. Laying out the vest took the two days of the workshop, but the real work was the free motion which took me a week. I hadn't done much free motion before. Now I feel that I have a lot of practice.

I featured mostly my dyed fabrics for the background.

Jacket and Pants

I have been working on a new jacket and pants. The pattern is one of Marcy Tiltons.

I began by getting out all of the things I had in my stash that would go with this lime green linen fabric. Also some fabric that I had dyed.
I cut out squares of my dyed fabric.
This is the pants with dyed fabric trim and embroidery stitching.
The jacket once it was completed. If you click on the pictures you will be able to see some of the detail.