Posted in Jacket, Projects and processes, supplies on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Shisha is glass, and it is rough cut. Before using it on fabric, you have to smooth the edges with a honing stone. Maybe in these shots you can see the rough edges and the honing stone.
These two shisha are now glued to the fabric and I have begun stitching—at last!
Oh, and the beads I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, by registered mail from Turkey, I received a package from Rengin. It included my order of her oyas and oya trim. This is what I ordered.
And this is what I got! Gifts of ribbons, beads, and RED threads. She’s been reading my blog about trying to get the right red threads. These are great, [...]
Posted in Jacket on September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Even with all my dithering over threads, I’ve begun production. Here are the washer and sequin paddings glued into place. To make sure no glints of metal shine through the stitches, I’m going to paint them.
And then I will start the actual stitching. I have the reds and golds I want to use.
Posted in Jacket, supplies on September 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here are the threads I’ve bought so far for this jacket project.
Actually, I ordered this Edmar thread pack mostly for stash, but also to fulfill a minimum order requirement with the Rajamahal Art Silk threads I wanted to check out for the jacket.
It turned out that the turquoise or aqua beads in this pack are [...]
Posted in Jacket on September 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Fire the engineers and get into production.” That’s what Ernie said after reading my post yesterday, coming into my room, and being shown my latest try-out stitches and the red threads I have to choose from among.
If you’ve never worked in manufacturing, this order may not mean much to you. Ernie and I both have [...]
Posted in Jacket, Projects and processes, reading on September 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Since finishing the course on particle physics, I have read three books by particle physicists–Dreams of a Final Theory by Nobel Prize winner and theoretician Steven Weinberg, The God Particle by another Nobel laureate and experimentalist Leon Lederman, and Belief in God in an Age of Science by former physicist and now theologian John Polkinghorne. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »
My goodness, this week I’ve been given two awards for this blog! Thank you, both. My cup runneth over. It took me a couple of days to figure out how to get the images in my blog, but here they are:
from my dear friend Maureen in Australia. To see some exquisite embroidery and some amazing [...]
Posted in Projects and processes, design on September 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been re-inspired. Thanks to the comments left on my previous post, I returned to some thoughts I had dismissed and I saw how I could use those ideas.
Here’s what I had been pondering about how to stitch–just this fragment from my first cutting of the scarf. I was looking at tiny details and not [...]
Posted in Jacket, Personal, design on September 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Usually I get ideas for designs by doodling. I’ve learned that my first idea is seldom my best, and that I think best with a pencil or pen in hand. Maybe that’s because I’m more of a writer than a visual artist. Making fabric art is something I’ve come to very late in life, and [...]
Posted in Jacket, Personal, design on September 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This jacket just calls for embellishment, don’t you think?
Here’s the back.
This jacket came from Deva. I’ve been buying clothes from their catalog for over 15 years. The company was founded in a rural village in Maryland, Burkittsville, by a husband and wife. When we were living in West Virginia, Ernie and I actually went to [...]
