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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