 Drapers, 24" x 24"
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Snood, 24" x 24"
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Sync or Swim, 24" x 24"
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The images are tiny photos from the 1890s I found in a 1935 Life magazine article about the 'ladies' of the Yukon territories. I knew they could be respectable with a few dressers to help their image.
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The pattern pieces for the snood in this collage are from a Renaissance costume. I followed the printed directions for embroidery and beading.
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A piece about remembering the synchronized sdwimming of my youth. I was an observer, not a participant, because getting up in front of an audience in a bathing suit was not on my radar screen. The center 'water'is hand painted silk from Micky Lawler with my embroidery and beads recreating the water splashes. |
 Ceiling Fan, 4 12" panels
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Flower Collage, 24" x 24"
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Learning to Sew, 24" x 24"
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Using several hat patterns and starting out as a simple repetitive design, a ceiling fan emerged. The 4 panels can be turned and changed to form all sorts of design variety.
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The preliminary tracing papers from the quilt called 'Deconstruction' were used for the flower shapes, then actual flower petals were scanned and printed and cut to fit the outlined shapes.
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I learned to do embroidery using transfer patterns of the days of the week and these are some I found on ebay. Instead of using the actual pattern I scanned it and collaged it down before adding color and actual embroidery through the paper and canvas. |
 Prom, 24" x 24"
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Building a Better Tiger, 24" x 24"
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I was about to toss a bunch of roses that never opened, but took a photgraph instead and used it to collage this piece. The base is regular dress pattern pieces but I removed all the direction lines and featured the different values of paper.
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A vintage pattern of Tigger was irresistable to me so I did a whole collage on a base of gold leafed anaglypta wallpaper. At the same time I found a picture of Siegfried and Roy and decided they needed a better tiger too so gave them a herd of more playful animals. |
 Eeyore at the DNC, 12" x 24"
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Eeyore doll
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Measuring Up, 4 6" x 8" panels
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The city of Boston was disrupted this past summer for the DNC, and at the same time I was working with this vintage character pattern when I recognized Kerry's resemblance to Eeyore.
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This is the doll that the pattern makes.
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Here are 4 panels of newspaper paperdolls comparing and contrasting to the ideal body drawings from a dress pattern. |
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