'Patterns' Can Mean Many Things

This is the first blank book I made. It's about 12x12 inches and is bound with the coptic stitch. The front cover is paper, with a reverse appliqued, fabric dress, and the title printed on pattern maker's paper and placed in a recess. The back cover is made with the same fabric as the dress on the front, with another appliqued-on dress. The inside pages are blank pattern maker's paper and fold out to 24x24 inches. The paper came from a store in Savannah, GA called At Home, and the fabric is from an old table cloth of my grandmother's. It comes up several times in my work.

Disco Dancing Robot...Skirt

This is one of my first complete projects. I can be obsessive compulsive about process, and in the vein of The Little Skeleton, drafted the pattern, hand dyed the fabric, hand sewed the skirt,and hand embellished the narrative. With the intention of creating a subtle disco ambience for the fabric, I used potato dexterin with the base purple dye, followed by an immersion dye in teal. I then embellished the sequined disco ball, and appliqued and stuffed the robot (for dimension). This piece was created for the final project in Embellished Surfaces (spring 2005).