Shibori dyed stripe fat quarter for quilters by Carlyn Clark
I've been working on stripes this week and came up with some new options that will be great in the striped quilt I'm working on. I'm dyeing on both Kona Cotton and on a poplin that I've fallen in love with. More stripes are coming, and soon they'll be available for sale to quilters. Sign up for my newsletter for a sneak peek, coming soon.
Handstitched shibori dyed indigo linen with ikat woven cotton
The first month is complete! And so is the back of the jacket. Tomorrow I'll take a picture of the completed back and then get onto the front. I'm still holding to my general intention of getting it all pieced before I decide how to proceed with the decorative stitching, which is what will hold the whole thing together.
Shibori dyed cotton, overdyed indigo prints, ikat and woven stripes patched in the boro style
Today I tackled the oddity of the shoulder slant. I'm not really loving the angles, but I got over the hump and am heading towards the front. I expect once it's all stitched up it won't be so noticeably angular.
Block prints, woven stripes, overdyed cottons and vintage prints patched in the boro style
Today I did a bit of decorative stitching, mostly because it's so cold in my workspace that my hands hurt while I was laying up new patches. So after running warm water on my hands until they thawed out I climbed into bed and turned on "Versailles" and mindlessly stitched. A pretty great way to spend an afternoon. Anybody else watching it?
stitched cotton block prints and woven stripes
Very blue today.
Inspired by Mara Hoffman's swim collections and keeping the Stylesight Spring 2015 Megatrend "Impulse" in mind I came up with three coordinating prints. I've been intrigued by woven textile traditions from the "Americas" lately, and I think that crept into the stripe a bit. I've been fascinated with the similar qualities in Navajo, Mexican, Columbian, Peruvian, Guatemalan and even Inuit textiles.
I ended up blending two different design briefs into one collection. Over on Pattern Observer, Chelsea's Challenge has a "Runway Inspired" brief, and the Make It In Design School Summer School Intemediate level brief was for swimwear with a "fun retro inspired pattern". Specific details were to "think large-scale motifs, including at least one strong bold geometric shape.
I started thinking about 60's pop inspired geometrics, and came up with a few different patterns:
a description of the process I used to come with my latest collection of prints, "Geo Pop", inspired by the pop imagery of the 60's, with some modern Photoshop filter magic
Read Moredaily sketch. coordinating stripe. coordinating plaid
daily sketch. original painting acrylic on canvas. leaves added in photoshop. abstraction done in photoshop.
