7 April 2014

 

I'm in this wedding long jacket mission right now, and for it i went to 

search in the antique stuff markets  for pieces of old cotton crochet.

After i've been hand dyeing with avocado peels and tea staining some of the lace i had already and the old pieces i got on the markets...

Some pieces i've decided to keep them in pure white, off white and sandy shades, so i could use for patchwork different colors....

 

This patchwork story is really painting with the fabrics...

 

Anyway, the weekend passed by, it was my daughter 2 year old birthday on the 4th, so we've been celebrating all weekend with tiny people and also bigger ones...

 

So today i made the base - the bodice - of the jacket in cotton gauze. I shapped it on the manichino, i stitched and i started the patchwork on it.

I am right now on the bodice patchwork fase, i really like this fase, because when i am putting little lace piece on little crochet piece on little cotton piece, etc, i don't really know how it will look after all the heavy stitching... i can only control the shades and a bit the shape, but after, "i'ts beyond my control..."

 

Like hand dyeing with natural colors... you never know exactly the result you gonna have after is dyed and dry....

 

Then i've been also drawning myself in the fabrics sea, fishing a bit of off white pure silk here, a bit of tule there, some vintage cotton, voile, long pieces of tea stained crochet, also onion peels dyed crochet.... until i decided what to use on this jacket, even if i still don't know very well how to use them, because this is always a very spontaneous and organic process, the shape comes within the process....

It's the process that creates the shapes.....

 

I'm loving it....

I will post photos of all the process of this jacket.

 

I wish a sunny delicious week to all of you.