jackie dress

Remember this post?
Now see what i made from the fabric. It is such a comfortable little number it's almost worn out. The perfect summer dress, dressed up or down, cool and somewhat stylish if i may say LOL!
An interesting thing happened though. i was using a pattern generating program and did not make a sloper with my measurements, i wanted to get on with the sewing, and not spend time on the sloper.
i have always been misses 10 but, as i've put on some weight i figured i could swing it with size 12.

But, lo and behold sizes have changed. They are bigger, no, humongous!! Even size 10 was enormous, and i mean the proportions too. With the armholes almost reaching below my bust, i needed a fix, pronto. And we are not talking drugs here.
My proportions were impossible to change so i went back to my old Vogue patterns and cut and pasted a pattern together to make the dress. It ended up being a sleeveless interpretation of this.

i'm still puzzled by the sizing . i haven't done any sewing in a while and i would have thought that the change would lean towards smaller sizes, not bigger. This has proved wrong . i may extrapolate that people are getting bigger or as it is said in politically incorrect Spain, fatter.

Ok, but what about the proportions?
Have you noticed a change in sizing and proportions? How are you coping with it? Advice requested here.

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monochromatic white

i just adore the concept and i'm trying to work with it and see where it takes me. The concept comes from Alvar AAlto a worshiper of white.
Practice shows that buildings have a way and textiles have another and i think that once again i've been blinded by ambition :) :)

Things i've noticed so far:

• It's a real pain to photograph or scan white and get a good quality image. No matter how much you P it doesn't cut it. Unless you are a pro, that is.
• i have a tendency towards diagonals, perhaps a carryover from weaving. A weaver's challenge is to break away from the grid imposed by warp and weft.
• i like working with puff paint but i need to be cautious with it as it can look scarily kitsch.
  

One of my future aims is to walk away from diagonal compositions and try new ones. And to make materials and techniques work together as a whole. Here i've used distressed tyvek, pearl paint, beads, stitching in a variety of thread grists, buttons, puff paint all on poly organza and topped with white tulle to unify and soften the work.
Brunette ambition taking over!

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at the bottom of the bottom drawer

Found this te suji and midori shibori. It was one of my first shiboris, i was young and thought there was a lot of life ahead, but i was not patient.

In the middle of the pleating and binding session i got bored and changed the pleating thus getting another pattern. The patterns are called 手筋絞り te suji kin toshi shibori( 手 te means hand and suji pleated) and みどり midori which means in this case willow leaf. I was getting started on the indigo craze, but i wasn't getting anything there, so this is good ol' Procion MX blue on white silk 90 x 90 cms.

On another note i finally got down to using my new bike. There's such a nice verb in Spanish for when you use something for the first time estrenar. Funny how English being so precise a language does not have a verb for that.

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