Are we there yet?
This is the final piece in the 50|50 series. Like an "everything" bagel, this has (almost) every textile used in the fifty pieces of the series. [...]
"Mod Map" has been used in many Scrappys, Charlotte came up with the name I liked best. [...]
Named for Linda Chenault, the head designer at Warren Z, where I had my first "fashion industry" job as a sample cutter, in 1986. Linda had a great eye for choosing prints, and a lot of them were Italian rayon challis. This print I sewed into one of my favorite tunics [...]
I got the Indonesian batiks from Erica at the Textile Arts LA textile swap on July 10. She culled them from her mom's fabric stash, and I'm so glad she did! This one features an aqua and brown design [...]
Sometimes I would let a combination sit in an uncut heap overnight, and the Betty benefitted from this tactic. Rifling through an old bag of random scraps that I had recently unearthed, I found a remnant of my grandmother Betty's bedspread that I'd held onto for a really long time. [...]
Olivia is the source of all the Indonesian batik prints via her daughter Erica. Erica purged her mother's fabric stash, brought the goods to the Textile Arts LA textile swap, and I reaped the benefits. [...]
So named for the Kente print yardage that I bought while exploring Leimart Park with Diedrek after a studio visit in 2018 [...]
Mariana was a co-worker. We decided to have a tie dye session in the back end of the parking lot. We used both garments from the free sample box and lab dip fabric yardage. It was super fun! I used some of our experiments. [...]
