Best Piece I Ever Embroidered: A closer look

Stitches Magazine was a very nice honor to have my Dogwood Dollar Jacket in this last edition in the "Best Piece I Ever Embroidered" feature. stitches magazine September Issue.
I have had a few people ask if they can see some better images of this jacket and how it was done.

Here they are! This one dollar rack number was a fun fix and I was able to use some items from my old machine knitting days a fun way to incorporate texture into designs is to trap the "loose" pieces between the garment and solvy. Once it is all embroidered you can peel away the plastic and see the lovely fun thread showing through the designs.

The design choose for this jacket is an open work created by Erich Campbell and you may purchase this item here!
Erich's Dogwood Flower

Thriftshop Thursday: Fall Feathers

A nice denim number that was found on the dollar rack, this jacket sold in August and I hope she is wearing it on these crisp Fall days.

I love to work in texture with embroidery, so much of it is just flat on the fabric and there are so many fun things that you can embroider over using up all kinds of scraps and odd items.  This fabric is a nylon that is used for kites and it was just the right orange for these fun feathers.

The feathers were hooped individually then cut out by hand and fibers pulled out for the edges then sewn down separately on the jacket.

There are many times that I like to connect designs by just free sewing in my standard table machine I think that it gives a nice touch to the pieces that incorporates unstructured freedom to the designs and keeps the "clip art" look from happening it connects everything together nicely.

If you would like this The Ostrich Fall Feather design is from Erich Campbell's collection and you may purchase it here for your own fun project!

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Carolyn 

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Thriftshop Thursday: These boots are made for loungin

 Needed a little art therapy today: so I like to hole up in the shop with music and just Mabel sleeping on the floor. Been thinking about making boots and some moccasins so when  Face Book friend Luiz Vetor Mendez Digitizer sent me this I was thrilled!

Luiz lives in Brazil and makes beautiful art for clothing designers. The boots are 100% wool and a suede sole on them. This was a great break in for me so now I know what I would like to do with leather and embroidery plus...put a heal on them....excited!

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Carolyn

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